Rob Lowe — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The Christmas Shoes Sequel The Christmas Blessing is Irresistibly Maudlin in that Deeply Imitable Christmas Movie Kind of Way

My patron-funded exploration of the films of disgraced Noxzema girl Rebecca Gayheart continues with a maudlin 2005 Christmas tear-jerker that’s a sequel to a TV movie based on the famously treacly Christmas song “The Christmas Shoes.”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 28, 2023Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Lowe, Rebecca Gayheart, Christmas, TV movies

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #228 Class (1983)

My reader-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen begins on a low note with the dire 1983 The Graduate knock-off Class, which subjects the future Oscar-nominee to all manner of humiliations.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 26, 2021Rob Lowe, Virginia Madsen, Jaqueline Bisset, John Cusack, Alan Ruck, teen sex comedy, intergenerational romance, Andrew McCarthy, debut