Reese Witherspoon: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

3. Kate - Four Christmases (2008)

In this egregious Christmas movie, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon each demonstrate the classic Hollywood rom-com face: dead-eyed with self-loathing, and as smiley and blank as someone who has just consumed their body weight in Ambien. Perhaps it has something to do with the way they are lit, or the way they are directed, or with the fact that they have possibly gone into a kind of neurophysiological shutdown. They must know in their hearts that what they're performing is pure ordure but they go through with it like the A-list professionals that they are. The pair play Brad and Kate, an unmarried, long-term, committed couple happy with the status quo. You know the type, people that unhappy married people with kids love to hate. They have everything going for them. They€™re in love, they have a great life, and they see no reason to ruin it by signing a piece of paper at the local courthouse or by popping out an unending stream of kids. Once this is established, you know that by the end of the movie they will be married and expecting child. After all, this is a Hollywood movie and this sort of childless happiness can not be allowed to stand. Witherspoon works hard to convince you otherwise, but this is a miscast mess and the actress at her worst. Forget Christmas, this was definitely a turkey.