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Summary: Kevin Spacey & Judy Davis are a great pair.
Review: Very funny movie. Kevin Spacey apparently can play any type of role. Anything he's ever in, he does a wonderful job but I had never seen him in a comedy. He's great and so is Judy Davis. They really do remind you of people you know. They never agree on anything and can start an argument on any subject. Denis Leary who is there to rob them ends up being the ref in their arguments. He's very funny too. The mother-in-law, the kid, Santa Claus, the whole cast is good. Good movie with a lot of laughs.
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Summary: The funniest movie I've ever seen.
Review: Bar none, the best comedy ever made. Spacey fans will appreciate his exquisite comedic performance as the bitter loser husband. Judy Davis is a superb neurotic nagging wife. And Dennis Leary probably is the funniest I've ever seen him. Every supporting actor is great, as well. The mother is way too close to my own mother-in-law, though, hehe. We discovered this movie in a video store in 1994 by accident. I cannot understand why it wasn't a monster hit. I have seen this movie at least 15 times and it just gets funnier. I wish it would come out on DVD!!
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Summary: sick, twisted and merry as hell.
Review: Gotta love a nasty family film that makes most of our own holidays look tame.
Denis, Kevin & Judy each hold their own in the vulgar yet funny olympics.
Sort of a antidote to It's a Wonderful/Christmas story mania.
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Summary: FUNNY
Review: I seen this movie for the first time on HBO last month, and I am shocked being the Kevin Spacey and Dennis Leary fan that I am I didn't know it existed beforehand until now (7 years later), but I did notice how much it resembled the film American Beauty, but since seeing The Ref, American Beauty has been placed in the backseat as a comparison to this flick, I LOVE THIS MOVIE, as everybody else here that has left reviews on it, I highly recommend it as well, especially watching it near Christmas season, one thing is for sure I wouldn't settle for a censored version of it, the "Adult Language" content in this film is what makes it so hilarious, however, I don't understand why it hasn't been released on DVD yet....
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Summary: A slick superb comedy.
Review: An complaning couple (Judy Davis & Kevin Spacey) soon to be the urge of a divorce. An professional theif (Denis Leary) taken the couple as hostage. But soon the thief realize, they are bickering couple. It's seems his fate is much more worse than Jail. This film has memorable comic performances by Leary, Davis & Spacey. The plot setting is on Christmas Eve. Directed by Ted Demme (Beautiful Girls, Life, Blow), who sadly died at the age of 38, who was become strong filmmaker. From a Story by Marie Weiss. An Funny Smart Screenplay by Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Executive Produced by Don Simpson (Who Died Also) and Jerry Bruckheimer. An favorite towards adults audiences, an cult Comedy hit. Grade:A-.
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Summary: The Ref is one of Denis Leary's Best Movies!!
Review: I laugh everytime I watch "The Ref". This is a wickedly funny movie with a superb cast. Denis Leary and Kevin Spacey have several scene stealing moments that will leave you rolling in the aisle. I highly recommend this movie if you are a fan of either Denis Leary or Kevin Spacey. You won't be disappointed!!
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Summary: Witty and Hilarious!
Review: I wish they would release this film on DVD, it's one of my favorites. Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis (what's up with her hair?) are a highly dysfunctional married couple living in CT. They are "kidnapped" by Denis Leary at a grocery store. The couple manages to drive Leary's character insane with their "problems" just as the family starts arriving for a holiday celebration. The film is chock full of witty dialogue and sarcastic banter that will make you laugh until it hurts. (I had to watch it twice.) This is one of those films that you never tire of watching because the cast is such a joy to watch. The casting for this film was outstanding and the acting was superb. It is beyond my comprehension why this film did not receive any awards?! It is undoubtly one of Spacey and Leary's finest films yet it's rarely mentioned in their filmographies. If your family drives you nuts every holiday this film is for you. I couldn't help but relate to the scene where Spacey beats the Christmas tree and says "The corpse still has the floor!" (my family is French Huguenot also....and this is what our family Christmas parties are like for real...scary!) You'll laugh, you'll cry, get the film!
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Summary: Didn't your alien leaders teach you that?
Review: A plethora of quotable lines, annoying in-laws and a small American town that is the fifth ring of hell make for a superbly-crafted film. This movie is not for everyone -- only the quirky, eclectic and otherwise-eccentric audience will appreciate the memorable lines ("Know what I'm gonna get you next Christmas, Mom? . . . "), loveable but stupid extended family ("Who would catch criminals and then let them go in the spirit of Christmas?"), a pair of frustrated criminals and another criminal in the making (oh, sorry, Caroline -- juvenile delinquent to you). The less-educated with no sense of humor will dismiss "The Ref" as juvenile, profane, trite. . . none of which are true. Granted, there is profanity, but anyone who enjoyed Kevin Smith's "Clerks" should get a kick out of the snappy comebacks and plot twists generously distributed throughout. A stellar cast rounds out the plus-es of this film -- Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis and Glynnis Johns remind me frighteningly of my own family dysfunction around the holidays.
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Summary: ALSO, MY FAVORITE MOVIE
Review: I WOULDN'T CALL IT YOUR TYPICAL HOLIDAY CLASSIC, BUT DEFINATELY ONE THAT KEEPS YOU LAUGHING AND LIFTS YOUR SPIRITS -- CAN BE WATCHED ANY TIME OF THE YEAR. (LANGUAGE MAKES IT FOR ADULTS) OUTSTANDING CAST, FUNNY, ENTERTAINING. DENNIS LEARY IS A THIEF IN A TOWN WHERE HE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY STABLE PERSON. HE BECOMES "THE REF" TO A VERY DISFUNCTIONAL FAMILY WE CAN ALL RELATE TO IN SOME FORM OR FASHION. DESERVES TO BE ON D V D.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: The movie is absolutley awesome and is strongly reccomended instead of It's a Wonderful life. check this out, cause you have a heavyweight actor in Kevin Spacey and one of the funniest comics in Dennis Leary. Though it should be noted that this movie is not a kids movie by any strech of the imagination, but for the adults, it is incredible dialouge wise. Check it out
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