Holiday-Appropriate

Dr. Seuss’ classic story-cum-television special How the Grinch Stole Christmas gets a big screen, big-budget make-over from director Ron Howard. So does Jim Carrey, who endured five-hour makeup sessions every day to play the infamous curmudgeon and thief… Jerry Maguire‘s Jonathan Lipnicki teams with Richard E. Grant for the tot-friendly adventure film The Little Vampire, an adaptation of Der Kleine Vampir, a German children’s book by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg… What’s Cookin’?, directed by Gurinder Chadha, follows four families — black, Jewish, Latino, and Vietnamese — over Thanksgiving. The ensemble cast includes Alfre Woodard, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgewick, Julianna Margulies, and Joan Chen.

This article appears in September 1 • 2000.

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