And all over the world, millions Americans get together to watch the game, sometimes dragging along their confused foreign hosts who are trying to figure out why people are using their hands in football.

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In an often disorienting mixture of rages, flashbacks, speeches to the camera, and nods to other movies, the story rolls and stammers along, drawing the family into a Christmas get-together but denying them more than a glimpse of the harmony that we might, by tradition, expect.

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