“Wow, I need to come to church more often,” Max says as he makes his way back home. He spies some toys on a table and takes one before he’s told that they’re for “children less fortunate than you.” But when he lets slip that both of his parents are “gone” and that he’s essentially on his own, the kindly woman gives him a large Nerf weapon. Max goes to the same church, wistfully looking at the Nativity family outside. “It’s the day that everybody goes to church, right?” says Gavin, their real-estate agent/personal instructor, as he suddenly shows up. Jeff and Pam, their kids and some out-of-town family members go to a Catholic service on Christmas.
Merry Christmas, everyone! Let’s shed a little blood! And clearly, the whole situation demands just one thing: wanton violence.
He overhears them talking about how they want to grab that “ugly little boy,” who’s worth $200,000 to the right elderly buyer.Ĭlearly, Jeff and Pam are up to no good. But soon, he spies Pam and Jeff sliding down the road toward his house, clearly up to no good. He spends a bit of time doing what many 10-year-olds might do if left in a gigantic house all alone: eating candy, surfing down the stairs, trying to hack his dad’s computer to find naughty sites. Double alas, Max falls asleep in the family BMW and awakes to find everyone gone. Alas, the family has been split up into two different flights, which makes keeping track of who’s on what flight difficult.
Meanwhile, back at the Mercer household, Carol, Max and about 16 gazillion relations are set to jet to Japan, everyone’s ideal Christmas destination. Clearly, Max must’ve taken it! Because he had a telltale lump in his coat pocket! Why, that’d be enough to pay off the house and ensure the family would never, ever have to move!īut the doll has gone missing.
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And, oh yeah, some of them might be worth a little bit of money.Īnd so the movie might’ve ended right there.īut later that evening, Jeff discovers that one of the dolls-a little boy doll with his head plastered on upside-down-is indeed worth a little bit of money. He inherited the creepy little porcelain things. It’s Frankenstein’s monster, Jeff corrects, and those aren’t his dolls. When Max steps out of the bathroom, he runs into Jeff, calls him Frankenstein and makes fun of him for owning dolls. They’re keeping the whole plan from their two kids for now, explaining away the ever-present real estate agent as a personal trainer. But-and this is perhaps the first clue that Jeff and Pam’s parenting isn’t all that it could be-they’re selling their house in secret. Alas, they must: Jeff built his career around data migration, which (since the cloud takes care of most data migration these days) just isn’t quite the plum gig it used to be. Pam and Jeff Fritzovski own said open house, even though they don’t really want to sell the place. Thankfully, Carol spies a real-estate agent’s open house and tells Max to pretend that they’re house shopping. One day, Carol and Max drive through another well-to-do, if nondescript, neighborhood (or perhaps a section of the same neighborhood-they really are nondescript) when Max has a sudden need to use the facilities. Max and his mother, Carol, just moved from Britain to a well-to-do, if nondescript, American neighborhood where it snows. What’s that you say? Wanton violence isn’t part of your Christmas season? Not unless Uncle Edgar has too much eggnog? Clearly, you live in a different neighborhood than 10-year-old Max Mercer. A season of love and laughter, of good food and stockings by the chimney and caroling and wanton violence, and.
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