Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: A Very 9/11 Christmas [Video]

Here is the latest trailer for Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and it is one damp mess. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel, it’s got all the requisite benchmarks of a sobfest-out-on-Christmas day movie. Behold, the Holy Trifecta: the wondrous and precociously wise child; the underlying “family is the true meaning of Christmas” message; and the most crucial nail in the Christmas film coffin: Tom Hanks. More »