Violent Night
Violent Night is a 2022 American Christmas action comedy film directed by Tommy Wirkola and written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller. It follows Santa Claus (portrayed by David Harbour) as he fights mercenaries who have taken a wealthy family hostage in their home. The film also stars John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, and Beverly D'Angelo. Violent Night had its world premiere at the New York Comic Con on October 7, 2022. Universal Pictures released the film in theaters in the United States on December 2, 2022. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $76.6 million worldwide. A sequel is in development.
- What's that? - Huh? ♪ If we can keep the spirit ♪ ♪ More than one day in the year ♪ ♪ Send a message loud and clear ♪ ♪ There's something about Christmastime ♪ ♪ Something about Christmastime ♪ ♪ That makes you wish it was Christmas every day ♪ ♪ To see the joy in the children's eyes ♪ ♪ The way that the old folks smile ♪ ♪ Says that Christmas will never go away ♪ ♪ It's the time of year when everyone's together... ♪ Jesus Christ.
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Ho-Ho-Holy shit. ♪ Christmas will never go away. ♪ Gertrude would never trust anybody who wasn't blood with this kind of info. So... the in-laws wouldn't know shit, which means that I can shoot her... unless you tell me where the fucking money is. Please don't, okay? It's Christmas. Shut up!
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I swear, I'll blow her brains out unless you tell me where the money went. I did it! - What? - Okay. Yeah, I did it. - I moved the money. - No, d-don't-don't be an idiot. - What? - The money's our only leverage. Well, my wife has a fucking gun to her head, so... Yeah, how did you find out that we were coming, huh? I didn't. I was stealing it.
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- Yeah, coincidence. - Oh, my God. I was planning to take the money and leave with my wife and daughter tonight and never come back here. Oh, and then my mom would, uh, read the note with her whiskey in the morning and know what I had done. For years, I have been telling you to stop caring about your mother's fucking money! And you think the solution was to steal a bunch of it.
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Well, it... yeah, it does sound stupid when you say it like that. How can you do this right now? It's disgusting. After all that Mother has given us? Come on, Alva. Everything she ever gave you, she made damn sure we knew she had the power to take right back. I have spent years groveling to you. In the meanwhile, I was destroying the only good thing in my life. What are we doing here, huh? Family therapy or doing a heist? - Yeah, enough of this sharing bullshit. - All right. Where'd you put it?
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