Christmas with the Kranks

Yeah.

Or Christmas With the Kranks.

Yeah, my cousin got beat, got beat up on set of Christmas With the Kranks at night when the set was closed down.

Damn.

What about this though, man? You've had a lot of interesting things in your life: music, art, Michael Jordan reenactments.

"Christmas at the Kringles," not to be, uh, confused with "Christmas at the Kranks," which I said, [chuckles] I told this to my wife about this movie twice.

Both times I told her the name, I said, "Christmas with the Kranks." Not the same movie.

No Tim Allen in this one to be found.

[chuckles]

[chuckles]Yeah, Heather made me watch Christmas with the Kranks, and it was fucking awful, and it's-

Pretty bad

... a movie she enjoys.

What was, what was Jamie Lee Curtis doing in that? She's like a quality actress.

Uh, and one of those cards ends up in the hands of a producer at RKO Pictures.

Which eventually leads to Frank Capra adapting it into the movie It's a Wonderful Life.

I mean, the ultimate Christmas movie was a rejected self-published Christmas card.

It's amazing, and this cross-pollination between book and screen keeps happening.

Oh, constantly.

John Grisham writes a comedic novel in 2001 called Skipping Christmas, right? About a couple trying to escape the exhausting hubbub of the season.

And it instantly births the movie Christmas with the Kranks.

Exactly.

It defies everything we've established about the brand up to this point.

Just one year later in 2004, we get our eighth theatrical movie adaptation, Christmas with the Kranks.

Yes.

Based on Grisham's 2001 novel called Skipping Christmas.

How exactly do we define an author's footprint in Hollywood? If we are looking purely at theatrical feature films based directly on his published novels, we have just covered them.

Right.

There are exactly eight: The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, and Christmas with the Kranks.

Eight theatrical movies based on novels.

wasn't doing base tans, I was always tanning.

Okay, and I always just think of Christmas with the cranks when you talk about going and doing a base tan and being at the mall.

It's like, oh, God.

Never happening.

It's gotta be an alliteration 'cause the last one was.

Like, Willy's Wonderland or Christmas With the Kranks, or...

See, something else-

Can I-

Oh, I didn't get Whale Fall.

'Cause that was 'cause you said it has to be alliteration, so you kinda helped me out there.

Well, he got the Christmas with the Kranks, and I was like, "You know they're not called the Kranks, right?"

Yeah.