Its over forty years in marriage and Sam and Charlotte feel they are no longer compatible and its better they are separated, just on the eve of Christmas they hope to break this news to the family, they found more than a million reasons to stay together.
25 October 1988, Alameda, California, USA
16 May 1967, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2 February 1957, Burlington, Vermont, USA
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
16 December 1961, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
24 January 1974, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1 December 1921, South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 May 1992, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
March 23, 2017
If you think this looks like an uplifting Christmas story about the love of family, think again. Sure, it wants to be, but instead it's a depressing mess.
November 13, 2015
If you've been wishing and hoping for a movie in which June Squibb - here playing a dementia-riddled relative named Aunt Fishy - shows her underpants yet again, you'll love Love the Coopers. For the rest of us, to know them is to hate them.
November 13, 2015
Holiday entertainment that feels more like a horror movie.
November 17, 2015
It's just as often manipulative and contrived, but Jessie Nelson's film sells itself well. There's care in the details, and the characters often feel like actual people.
November 13, 2015
It's part sitcom and part soap opera that pokes mild fun at the season but has a wide sentimental streak.
April 06, 2016
Love the Coopers reminds us that there are few things worse than booze-fuelled family gatherings, but one of them is definitely schmaltzy Hollywood movies about such reunions.
March 31, 2016
Charmless, confusing and utterly embarrassing, this could and should have been a lot more than just another run-of-the-mill Christmas flick which we're soon to forget.
July 25, 2016
The ensemble give the scant material their all, and this may be Olivia Wilde's most impressive performance to date, but the contrived plot, forced sentimentality and painfully predictable climax overshadow their work.
January 10, 2017
There was something about Love the Coopers that didn't just leave me cold and disappointed... it also made me mad.
March 26, 2016
Only occasionally does a moment ring true, thanks largely to talented actors subduing a balky script like parents wrestling a petulant kid onto Santa's lap.
November 13, 2015
Ticks off literally every home-for-the-holidays box -- in dutiful, uninspired fashion.
November 13, 2015
Alas, Love the Coopers focuses too much on interfamily drama to salvage the real Christmas spirit.
