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Best Christmas movies set in each state

By Reed Gaudens

HOME ALONE - Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. (20TH CENTURY FOX)MACAULAY CULKIN
HOME ALONE - Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. (20TH CENTURY FOX)MACAULAY CULKIN /
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New Hampshire: Eight Crazy Nights

Release Year: 2002

Directed By: Seth Kearsley

Starring: Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Rob Schneider, Kevin Nealon, Norm Crosby, Jon Lovitz

Unless you’re a devout Adam Sandler fan, you probably didn’t know that in 2002, the comedian released an animated Hanukkah musical called Eight Crazy Nights. Sandler voices Davey Stone, a 30-something hot mess (for lack of better phrasing) who drinks too much and often finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Rather the sending him to jail, a judge gives Davey a holiday break and offers him the chance to perform community service by acting as the assistant referee for a New Hampshire youth basketball team. Because of his past, working with the basketball team opens old wounds that the humorous elderly head referee, Whitey (also Sandler), helps him through.

If you know anything about Adam Sandler’s work in the ’90s and ’00s, then you won’t be surprised to learn that Eight Crazy Nights wasn’t a critical favorite. In fact, it holds a meager 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a matching figure with its modest $23.8 million box office gross. Back in the day, Eight Crazy Night was an underrated cult favorite, but today, it may or may not still hold up. Surely, its crass jokes haven’t aged well and won’t win over any new fans in 2020 — and it’s probably not the best representation of New Hampshire. But for those who enjoyed the animated Hanukkah musical back in 2002, the throwback holiday romp will be a welcome walk down memory lane.

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