Joe Guzaldo

Christmas with the Kranks -- With their daughter away, her parents decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holidays at the last minute.

The Public Eye -- New York City, 1942. Prowling the crime-ridden, midnight streets of the city, freelance shutterbug Leon Bernzy Bernstein (Pesci) captures life s seamy side in his lens and dreams of the day his pictures will be recognized as works of art. Then, ravishing nightclub owner Kay Levitz (Barbara Hershey) lures Brenzy into investigating the thugs trying to muscle in on her business. Before he knows it, he falls for the unattainable Kay and plunges camera-first into a treacherous realm of black market scams and mafia gang war. Now, Bernzy s either going to take the fall or take the one-in-a-million shot that could change his life forever.

When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever! With fast-paced energy and support from Dan Aykroyd, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey and M. Emmet Walsh, this hilarious adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel, "Skipping Christmas" has become "an instant family classic!" (Gorman Woodfin, CBN)

With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas. But at the last minute she decides to come home, causing them to panic when they have to plan the festivities at a moments notice.