El Camino Christmas
2017 · Movie · 89 min · ★ 5.6 · 45% critics
A young man travels to a small Nevada town hoping to find the father he’s never met. On Christmas Eve, a string of misunderstandings and bad decisions spirals into a tense standoff inside a liquor store, trapping several strangers together as the situation grows darker and more chaotic.
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-12-08
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 45/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.6/10 (341 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like offbeat, darkly funny stories where small-town tension snowballs into chaos, in the vein of Observe and Report or The Details; Not for you if you want cozy holiday cheer or a straightforward comedy.
Pros: offbeat, genre-mixing premise; strong cast moments; dark, quirky humor | Cons: uneven pacing; not very Christmasy; messy writing choices
Themes
- dark comedy
- police standoff
- christmas
- christmas eve
Cast & crew
Vincent D'Onofrio
as Carl Hooker
Jessica Alba
as Beth Flowers
Dax Shepard
as Deputy Billy Calhoun
Tim Allen
as Larry Michael Roth
Kurtwood Smith
as Sheriff Bob Fuller
Luke Grimes
as Eric Roth
Michelle Mylett
as Kate Daniels
Emilio Rivera
as Vicente Cruz
Kimberly Quinn
as Jewels Daniels
Jimmy O. Yang
as Mike
Directed by David E. Talbert