survive christmas ( 2004 ) ben affleck and james gandolfini and christina applegate and catherine o hara and josh zuckerman and bill macy and jennifer morrison and udo kier and d represent mike mitchell . dump by his girlfriend and a hotshot yuppie doesn not want to be leave alone on christmas so he decide to return to his boyhood home and impose on the dysfunctional family that now live there and bribe them to pose a his family . an obnoxious and one dimensional performance by affleck and who mainly act with a flashy smile and make his character come off a a mentally unbalanced creep and but gandolfini and o hara breathe some life into this mess . even for farce and it silliness be lumber and not much make sense from scene to scene and and it sentimental message be as phony a affleck grin . 91 min . and rat pg 13 . ½ .