The performers involved really make a difference in how this film turns out. Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate and Catherine O'Hara were, to be frank, the primary reasons I found it tolerable—at least for me. If different actors had been cast, I wouldn’t have anything good to say about it. As a holiday movie, it feels excessively harsh. That’s often the case with these kinds of films so that so…