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critically-panned feature is Witherspoon’s return to comedy and a blatant attempt to recapture America’s hearts and it is Vince Vaughan’s second holiday feature in a row in his apparent course to be America’s family man.

Pitching itself as a film by the director of Good Will Hunting, the trailer tries to reach out to the masses -- but the colors and framing of some of the sequences and an actor named Sean Penn mean this is buzzworth enough to consider as a top tier night at the movies.

My first thought was: this will be more rewarding on the 2nd viewing than the first. My second thought: what will be the fate for the thinking cap required film perhaps too audacious and too sophisticated for common folk. If you're like me - among the scratch up discs in your DVD collection are the ones that were scripted by Charlie Kaufman.

BEST DIRECTOR  Predictions: The Five Noms:         Steven Soderbergh - 'The Argentine'Ron Howard - "Frost/Nixon"David Fincher - "The Curious Case of...