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The Best Man Holiday

2013 · Universal · Theatrical

FAIL

Summary

A group of college friends reunites for the holidays years after their first gathering. Their celebration is complicated by Mia's terminal cancer and the tensions within the group.

Why it fails

Do they have their own story?

Mia’s illness reunites and heals the friend group and marriage conflicts.

Are they allowed to live?

Death is sentimental and spiritually framed.

Does the medical reality hold up?

Illness/treatment details are subordinated to ensemble melodrama.