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Gay people have many movies to call their own but not a Christmas movie. When you consider that Lifetime, Hallmark, and Netflix put out about 70,000 such films every November, it seems incredible that only this year have they started making holiday entries aimed at gays. The cable and streaming channels dawdled so long that a major Hollywood studio has nipped them at the line with Happiest Season, which has a lesbian director and a charismatic gay star. Queering such a hoary and traditionalist genre is a radical move that only works if Happiest Season is actually funny. I’m delighted to say that in this barren year for comedy films, this is one of the funniest things I’ve seen.

Kristen Stewart plays Abby, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University who used to hate Christmas until she fell hard for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Harper (Mackenzie Davis) at a

holiday party. A year later, when Harper dark and morbid on her tour group and impulsively invites her along to her wealthy Abby and Harper catching another couple parents’ small-town home for the festive in some kinky Christmas cosplay. Director season, Abby secretly buys an engagement Clea DuVall and her writing partner Mary ring and plans to pop the question while Holland (they acted together on TV’s they’re there. Then Harper confesses that Veep) mine some rich stuff from the family she hasn’t come out to her family, nor is dysfunction that Abby is stepping into, as she ready to. Cue several days of everyone Harper’s parents (Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen) overtly treat pretending to be hetero and Happiest Season her as their favorite child, Abby observing different Starring Kristen Stewart and much to the displeasure of sides of her girlfriend in her Mackenzie Davis. Directed oldest sister Sloane (Alison uptight, hyper-competitive

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I do wish the script The domestic drama had done a little more with Harper’s dad running for public office on provides a framework for the hijinks here, a family values platform, but the farce’s which include a scene-stealing turn from premise is enough that it doesn’t have to Holland herself as Jane, Harper’s overeager take on too much besides the funny bits. sister whom everyone ignores.

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she has spent the last 10 years writing or Harper’s ex-boyfriend (Jake McDorman) showing up unannounced everywhere because her parents are transparently trying to set her up with him. This cast is stacked, and you know a comedy is going good when the laughs come from nine or 10 actors deep. I haven’t even mentioned Dan Levy (from TV’s Schitt’s Creek) freshening up a cliché role as Abby’s gay best friend or Aubrey Plaza as Harper’s ex and the one out lesbian in town with whom Abby quickly bonds, because nothing’s more lesbian than making friends with your girlfriend’s ex. This movie shows Stewart as a character who’s settled and happy for once (at least until she’s forced back in the closet), and while she’s not known for physical comedy, just watch her pose for a selfie in her bathroom with a toothbrush sticking out of her mouth or backpedaling down a hallway to avoid being caught sneaking into Harper’s bedroom. You know Harper’s secret will be revealed in the most chaotic way possible, but it still manages to be both uproarious and wrenching when it happens.

The film’s final shot is of Abby and Harper blissfully happy as they settle into their seats at a movie theater. This made me sad, because you won’t be seeing it in a theater, since Sony offloaded the film to Hulu last month. I understand the studio’s decision — it’s not as if you could release this movie in the spring. Even so, Happiest Season is a historic achievement (something I don’t say lightly), and the experience of taking it in with a crowd and being surrounded by their laughter would have meant something. This ruthless plague around us has taken that away, much as it has taken away big family gatherings like the one that the film depicts. Nothing will replace that this holiday season, but having this film, and having it be good, is a big measure of good cheer. Who couldn’t use that this year? l

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