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Christmas with the Kranks (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• During filming, it was reported that the cast and crew had ingested over 10 pounds of fake snow.
  
  
• The title of the John Grisham book on which the film is based is "Skipping Christmas". It wasn't used for the film to avoid confusion with another Christmas-themed film, Surviving Christmas (2004).
  
  
• Lots of deleted and alternate footage appears in the movie's trailer (included in the "Previews" section on the DVD). Some examples are: - A book being opened to a photo of the Krank family. - Nora Krank taking a photo of her husband and daughter outside their house. - Luther Krank with a device in his mouth, obviously sitting in a dentist's chair to get his teeth whitened and/or fixed. - Luther Krank driving home with the skimpy tree on the roof of his car getting heckled by another motorist. - A different cruise advertisement in the travel agency's window. - Luther Krank showing his botox-injected face in the hospital. (We only see it for the first time in the scene afterwards where he's eating with his wife.) - The shot of Blair Krank saying goodbye to her parents at the airport doesn't have a screen credit over it as it does in the actual film.
  
  
• Tom Poston's final film
  
  
• During the scene where Nora Crank (Jamie Lee Curtis) is talking to Luther Crank on the phone, while Vic Frohmeyer demands that Frosty be put up, Luther tells Nora to "get out of there". After he says that the piano theme from Halloween (1978) begins to play briefly, a movie which Jamie Lee Curtis starred in.
  
  
• M. Emmet Walsh who plays the neighbor across the street who doesn't get along with Luther also plays the role of Tim Allen's "Home Improvement" (1991) character Tim Taylor's father-in-law (they, too, do not get along).
  
  

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