Deck the Halls Page #2

Synopsis: Optometrist Steve Finch loves those Christmas traditions he has set up with his family and his town. As such, he has a schedule of activities for his family starting on December 1st, and is the official unofficial consultant for anything Christmas related in his town of Cloverdale, Massachusetts. During the Christmas season, the Halls move in to the house across the street from the Finch's. The Halls in general are different in outlook and temperament than the Finches. Unlike Steve, Buddy Hall scams his way through life and never follows through with anything he starts. While Kelly Finch and Tia Hall - Steve's wife and Buddy's wife respectively - and their children begin friendships based largely on those differences, Steve and Buddy butt heads based on those differences. It begins with Buddy striving to have his house seen from outer space by decorating it as lavishly and brightly as possible. One of the results of Buddy's task his that he becomes the new go to guy for anything Christ
Genre: Comedy, Family
Director(s): John Whitesell
Production: 20th Century Fox
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.9
Metacritic:
28
Rotten Tomatoes:
6%
PG
Year:
2006
93 min
$35,058,863
Website
1,187 Views


- This is Madison. Say hello, Madison.

Hello, Madison.

- She's 15. You know how they get.

- You're kidding me? 15? My girls are 15.

Girls! Get your butts down here!

We've got company.

Carter. Carter!

- You're staring.

- Oh. Oh. Sorry about that.

I used to do some modelling, mostly

for art classes at the community college.

- That's how I met Buddy.

- Really? Was he an artist?

No, they caught him peeking

in through the windows.

- That's such a sweet story.

- I just got so tired of dating boys.

No offence.

Then one day I met Buddy and

he just swept me right off my feet.

Oh, there you are.

These are my babies, Ashley and Emily.

- Hi, girls.

- Hi.

- This is Madison and this is Carter.

- Hi.

You girls will probably

be in a lot of the same classes.

Great. Are there any hot guys?

Yeah, but, you know,

they're all enormous tools.

Really? Will you introduce us?

Kelly, thank you.

That has been in my family for years.

- It's beautiful.

- It ought to be.

It's worth more than

this entire house put together.

I'll find a safe place

and we'll get to school.

I can drop them all at school

if you want to unpack.

- Really?

- Sure.

- You'd do that for me?

- No problem.

I'll get the car while they get dressed.

They are dressed. This is more clothes

than they've worn in months.

- Can I live here?

- Get in the car.

- You got a fake ID?

- No.

- Don't worry. We can make you one.

- Nice girls.

You kidding me? I pray every day for the

strength not to run over them with the truck.

Have a nice day.

All right, listen up, you guys.

We just got in a new shipment of Aspens.

And I want you to sell three for me

by lunchtime. All right.

- What? Are you kidding?

- Hey! We got a new salesman.

Buddy Hall over here.

Let's make him feel welcome.

All right, all right, all right.

Welcome aboard. Sell, sell, sell. All right.

This is gonna be good.

Buddy, hey.

So, are you ready to sell some cars?

Me? I'm a born car salesman.

But I was thinking today that maybe I would just

kinda ease into it, get a feel for the place.

Yeah, well, you see that tyre-kicker

right there? He's all yours.

- I don't know.

- I got 1,000 bucks says you can't sell him.

- Let me in on that action.

- Let's just make it three.

- Three?

- Three Gs.

All right. You guys are asking for it.

There's one born every minute. Come on.

Ted, this is genius.

You can't let these new guys

get into a rhythm.

I'm telling you, boys,

from this day forward, we own that guy.

Here we go.

The brush-off, the brush-off.

OK, here he comes.

- We got you.

- Are you OK?

You walked facefirst into that, Buzzo.

Money on my desk by the end of the day.

No cheques.

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