Christmas with the Kranks (2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Christmas with the Kranks: Directed by Joe Roth. With Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh. With their daughter Blair away in Peru, Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they must celebrate it at the last minute.

Strange as it may sound, Luther and Nora Krank, the neighborhood's award-winning Christmas experts, are determined to do the unthinkable: skip Christmas and spend the money on a sun-kissed, 10-day Caribbean cruise.

The film is based on John Grisham's book "Skipping Christmas." The original title is seen in the newspaper article after the tanning-salon incident. The title was changed to avoid confusion with Surviving Christmas (2004). Both movies were holiday comedies released in the same year and both were poorly received by critics.

Adopted from the best-selling John Grisham novel and produced by Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Home Alone 2, some other stuff), Christmas With The Kranks squanders a talented cast (Curtis, Akroyd) and portrays the eponymous holiday as a time for ugly lynch-mobs and soul-destroying conformity.

Christmas with the Kranks (2004) - Lots of deleted and alternate footage appears in the movie's trailer (included in the "Previews" section on the DVD). Some examples are: * A book being opened to a photo of the Krank family. * Nora Krank taking a photo of her husband and daughter outside their house.

Christmas with the Kranks (2004) - Goofs on IMDb - bloopers, mistakes, errors in continuity, plot holes, anachronisms, spoilers and more.

Christmas with the Kranks (2004) - There is an ongoing feud between Luther and the neighbor's white Persian cat, Muffles. Tim Allen's character in Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) had a run-in with his girlfriend's white Persian cat, Coco.

Christmas with the Kranks is based on the 2001 novel Skipping Christmas by American author John Grisham, usually known for his legal thrillers. The novel was adapted for the movie by American filmmaker Chris Columbus.

Christmas with the Kranks: Directed by Joe Roth. With Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh. With their daughter Blair away in Peru, Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they must celebrate it at the last minute.