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42 free Christmas with the Kranks trivia questions with answers. Christmas with the Kranks was panned by critics and adopted by families anyway. This Christmas with the Kranks trivia quiz covers the whole film: Luther's $6,000 sums and the Caribbean cruise, Hemlock Street and Vic Frohmeyer's campaign, the iced carolers, Frosty on the roof, Blair's Christmas Eve phone call, Enrique, the borrowed tree, the smoked trout, and the cruise tickets that end up with Walt and Bev Scheel. It also looks behind the scenes: Joe Roth casting Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis in a week, Chris Columbus's script, the sixteen-house set built in a Boeing car park, Steven Van Zandt's soundtrack, the box office and the reviews, plus how John Grisham's Skipping Christmas differs from the movie. About half the questions are for anyone who watches it every December; the rest are for the fan who knows the cruise ship's name in the book. Every answer is checked against a cited source shown under the question.
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Q 01Christmas with the Kranks is based on a novel by which author?
John Grisham
John Grisham. The author of The Firm and A Time to Kill wrote the 2001 comic novel behind the film, a rare break from his legal thrillers.
Q 02What is the title of the novel the film adapts?
Skipping Christmas
Doubleday published it on November 6, 2001; Dennis Boutsikaris later narrated the audiobook.
Q 03Who directed the film?
Joe Roth
Chris Columbus wrote the screenplay and, to Roth's surprise, told him he should direct it himself.
Q 04Who wrote the screenplay?
Chris Columbus
Columbus, of Home Alone fame, had bought the book rights and written a script before calling Roth.
Q 05Who plays Luther Krank?
Tim Allen
Tim Allen plays Luther Krank. Already a Christmas-movie fixture from The Santa Clause (1994) and its 2002 sequel, Allen headlines as the tax accountant who tries to skip the holiday.
Q 06Who plays Nora Krank?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Costume designer Susie DeSanto said Curtis wanted to look like a real Midwestern woman obsessed with Christmas sweaters.
Q 07Who plays Vic Frohmeyer, the self-appointed boss of the street?
Dan Aykroyd
The costume designer gave him a general's-jacket cut in tweed to suggest a college professor with military flair.
Q 08Where is the Kranks' daughter Blair heading when the film opens?
The Peace Corps in Peru
She leaves on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and empty-nest syndrome sets in immediately.
Q 09How much does Luther calculate they spent on the previous Christmas?
Over $6,000
The novel puts the figure at $6,100 with little to show for it.
Q 10What does Luther propose doing with the money instead of celebrating Christmas?
A ten-day Caribbean cruise
In the book the ship is the Island Princess, and Nora insists they still give $600 to charity.
Q 11What is the name of the Kranks' road?
Hemlock Street
Hemlock Street. The Kranks live in the Hemlock Street house whose bare roof and dark windows so offend neighbor Vic Frohmeyer and the rest of the block.
Q 12Which decoration do the neighbourhood children demand the Kranks put up?
A Frosty the Snowman
Every house on the street has one on the roof, and the block is competing for best-decorated.
Q 13How does Luther get rid of the carolers singing outside his house?
He ices the grass with the sprinklers
He ices the grass with the sprinklers. Luther switches on the lawn sprinklers in freezing weather to drive off the carolers, leaving his front yard a sheet of ice.
Q 21Who plays the Kranks' grouchy neighbour Walt Scheel?
M. Emmet Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh plays Walt Scheel. The Blood Simple and Blade Runner character actor is the Kranks' sour across-the-street neighbor, with Elizabeth Franz as his wife Bev.
Q 22Who plays Spike Frohmeyer, Vic's son?
Erik Per Sullivan
Sullivan was Dewey on Malcolm in the Middle at the time.
Q 23Austin Pendleton plays Marty, an umbrella salesman who is secretly whom?
Santa Claus
He seems to know everyone on the street.
Q 14From which airport does Blair call to say she is coming home?
Miami
Miami. Blair calls from the Miami airport on Christmas Eve morning, announcing she is flying home that evening with her new fiancé to surprise her parents.
Q 15What is the name of Blair's Peruvian fiancé?
Enrique
Enrique Decardenal is played by Rene Lavan; he ends up thanking the neighbours for the warm welcome.
Q 16How many hours do the Kranks have to throw together their Christmas Eve party?
Twelve
Nora panics and tells Blair the usual party is on.
Q 17Whose indoor tree does Luther try to borrow?
Wes Trogdon's
Trogdon is away for the week; the neighbours think Luther is stealing it and call the police, until Spike shows he has the keys.
Q 18What is the only food Nora manages to bring home for the party?
Smoked trout
Smoked trout. After Nora loses the last Hickory Honey Ham in a supermarket scramble, smoked trout is all she can bring home for the party.
Q 19What happens when Luther finally tries to haul Frosty onto the roof?
Man and decoration both fall off
Man and decoration both fall off. Luther slips on the icy roof and tumbles down with Frosty; the commotion draws the whole street, who pitch in once they learn Blair is coming home.
Q 20What does Luther do with the cruise tickets at the end of the film?
Gives them to Walt and Bev Scheel
Gives them to Walt and Bev Scheel. After learning Bev's cancer has returned, Luther hands the neighbors his cruise tickets so the couple can take the trip together.
Q 24Which Desperate Housewives star plays Nora's friend Merry?
Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman plays Merry. Huffman's Desperate Housewives had premiered in October 2004, weeks before this film opened; Caroline Rhea plays Nora's other friend, Candi.
Q 25Who plays the priest, Father Zabriskie?
Tom Poston
Tom Poston plays Father Zabriskie. The veteran of Newhart and Mork & Mindy, who married Suzanne Pleshette in 2001, appears as the Kranks' parish priest.
Q 26Where was the enormous neighbourhood set built?
A Boeing factory car park in Downey
Sixteen houses went up in twelve weeks, billed as the largest exterior set ever built for a film; the studio was razed for a mall in 2012.
Q 27How many houses were built for the neighbourhood set?
16
Five 'core' houses had fully dressed ground floors: the Kranks, Frohmeyers, Scheels, Beckers and Trogdons.
Q 28Which E Street Band member produced the film's soundtrack?
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt. The E Street Band guitarist, also Silvio Dante on The Sopranos, produced the film's rock-leaning Christmas soundtrack; John Debney composed the score.
Q 29What was the film's budget?
$60 million
It grossed roughly $97 million worldwide, a moderate success despite terrible reviews.
Q 30How much did the film gross worldwide?
$96.6 million
It opened third behind National Treasure and The Incredibles.