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The War with Grandpa + Giveaway

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The War with Grandpa–Now on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital!

By Erin

Get ready to laugh-out-loud and ring in the new year with an all-out prank  battle the whole family can enjoy, in the hilarious comedy, The War with Grandpa, now available to own for the first time on Digital, Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Based on Robert Kimmel Smith’s multi-award-winning beloved children’s book of the same name, the film follows a series of escalating shenanigans that ensue when a grandfather (Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro, The Irishman, Meet the Parents franchise) moves in with his daughter, forcing his grandson (Oakes Fegley, The Goldfinch, This Is Where I Leave You) to begrudgingly give up his bedroom. Packed with heart and hysterical hijinks from start to finish, THE WAR WITH GRANDPA is the perfect “family-friendly comedy” (Pete Hammond, Deadline) everyone can enjoy during the holiday and beyond.

Sixth-grader Peter (Fegley) is pretty much your average kid—he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed (De Niro) moves in with Peter’s family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won’t go without a fight. Soon, the friendly combatants are engaged in an all-out war with side-splitting consequences.

Alongside De Niro and Fegley is a top-notch cast including Academy Award® nominee Uma Thurman (Kill Bill series, Pulp Fiction), Rob Riggle (21 Jump Street, “Modern Family”), Cheech Marin (Cars series, Coco), Golden Globe® winner Jane Seymour (Wedding Crashers, “Jane the Virgin”), Laura Marano (Lady Bird, “Austin & Ally”) and Academy Award® winner Christopher Walken (Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can) that bring even more laughs throughout the mischievously funny and charming film. From director Tim Hill (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, “SpongeBob SquarePants”) with a script by Tom J. Astle (Get Smart, Failure to Launch) and Matt Ember (Get Smart, Epic), THE WAR WITH GRANDPA is sure to entertains audiences of all ages.

With the purchase of THE WAR WITH GRANDPA on disc or digital, fans are eligible to earn points towards special rewards via the Universal All-Access Rewards program. Members can redeem their points for digital movies, signed collectables, box sets, win exclusive prizes and more! For FREE registration and details please visit www.MyUniversalRewards.com.

For some added festive fun, ring in the new year with these Marble Cake Pops! To celebrate the Home Entertainment release of The War With Grandpa, I’m excited to share this tasty recipe to add some fun to your holiday treat table. Simply click on the image below to get the recipe and spread holiday cheer!

Now, who would like a chance to win a copy of this laugh-out-loud comedy? Enter through the rafflecopter below for your chance to win your own copy of The War with Grandpa. Must be a US resident +18 years or older. Ends 1/8/21 at 12AM PST. Go to the sweepstakes tab on the blog for all giveaway rules. Good-luck!

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Safety on Disney+

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Safety on Disney+

By Erin

Disney’s Safety is a heartwarming feel good movie inspired by the empowering true story of former Clemson University football safety Ray McELrathBey, a young man facing a series of challenging circumstances, whose dedication and persistence help him to triumph over repeated adversities. Aided by his teammates and the Clemson community, he succeeds on the field while simultaneously raising and caring for his 11-year-old brother Fahmarr. It really puts meaning to, “It takes a village!” Everyone is like family here.

Safety stars Jay Reeves (“All American,” “The Tax Collector”) as Ray and newcomer Thaddeus J. Mixson as Fahmarr, along with Corinne Foxx, Matthew Glave, Hunter Sansone, Amanda Warren, Miles Burris, Isaac Bell, Elijah Bell and James Badge Dale. It was directed by Reginald Hudlin (“Marshall”) and produced by Mark Ciardi, p.g.a. (“Secretariat,” “Miracle”) and Gordon Gray (“Million Dollar Arm,” “The Rookie”) with a screenplay written by Nick Santora (“The Most Dangerous Game,” “The Fugitive”). Douglas S. Jones and Campbell G. McInnes served as executive producers.

Safety Football

Inspired by a true story of courage, determination and the pursuit of excellence, Disney’s powerful and moving drama “Safety” explores one player’s college sports experience when put up against seemingly insurmountable odds, while ultimately redefining what it means to have community, family and friendship.

Ray McELrathBey was already taking on a lot when he started his freshman year on a football scholarship at Clemson University, one of the most prestigious and demanding college football programs in the country. Not really understanding what he was getting himself into, but eager to learn about more than just football, Ray signs up for a full load of classes, 16 units.

Just as he’s settling into college life and making friends, including sports journalism major Kaycee, he gets word that his 11-year-old brother Fahmarr (aka Fay) is hanging out with drug dealers back home in Atlanta after their mother has been arrested for possession. Rather than put Fay into the foster care system, Ray decides to smuggle him into his dorm room, which is strictly against the school’s rules. It’s not long before he finds the added responsibility of caring for Fay, who’s high-maintenance, beginning to take a toll on his performance both on the football field and in the classroom.

With help from his roommate Daniel and his other teammates, Ray and Fay manage to keep the arrangement a secret for a while, but eventually Ray confides in Kaycee, who was just about to give up on him. Ray finally breaks down and tells his coaches, who are furious he waited so long to come to them and concerned that it will jeopardize the team. Realizing the bind he’s in, they help him figure out a way to keep Fay with him – they find them a modest off-campus apartment and a part- time job as the building’s handyman to help pay for it. Ray lays down the law with Fay, who steps up to help lighten his brother’s load. Thinking a little publicity will help their cause, Kaycee writes a story for the school paper about Ray and Fay, and the entire Clemson community rallies around the two brothers to help them stay together.

With everyone’s support, Ray starts to prove his worth at football and his academic work soars. But the bubble is burst when a school official alerts the coaches that, by accepting outside assistance, Ray’s violated the terms of his scholarship. Once again, Ray finds himself in a position where he must choose between keeping Fay and continuing on at Clemson. Unwilling to give up, he chooses to fight what he considers an unfair system.

So get the family together and watch Safety! You won’t want to miss this inspiring, moving film about family, community and never giving up!

Safety premieres Friday, December 11, 2020 streaming only on Disney+.

Godmothered on Disney+

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Godmothered on Disney+

By Erin

Disney’s “Godmothered” is an all-new magical Christmas comedy in the classic Disney tradition, starring Jillian Bell and Isla Fisher.

Disney+ has a new sweet, sugary Christmas movie premiering on December 4th, “Godmothered.” Set at Christmas time, “Godmothered” is a comedy about Eleanor, a young, inexperienced fairy godmother- in-training (Bell) who upon hearing that her chosen profession is facing extinction, decides to show the world that people still need fairy godmothers. Finding a mislaid letter from a 10-year-old girl in distress, Eleanor tracks her down and discovers that the girl, Mackenzie, is now a 40-year-old single mom (Fisher) working at a news station in Boston. Having lost her husband several years earlier, Mackenzie has all but given up on the idea of “happily ever after,” but Eleanor is bound and determined to give Mackenzie a happiness makeover, whether she likes it or not.

Godmothered Be Careful Who You Wish For

“Godmothered” also stars Santiago Cabrera, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Jane Curtin, June Squibb, Jillian Shea Spaeder, Willa Skye, Artemis Pebdani, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Stephnie Weir.

“Godmothered” is Directed by Sharon Maguire and Produced by Justin Springer. Diane L. Sabatini, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman and Amie Karp serve as the film’s Executive Producers.

This is a hilarious Christmas comedy that turns the traditional fairytale completely upsidedown. When an offbeat fairy godmother forces herself on a reluctant human protégé, they’ll both discover life isn’t as simple as “happily ever after.” Fantasy faces a hard reality in Disney’s “Godmothered”, as they learn that “happily ever after” doesn’t mean the same thing for everything and it doesn’t mean you have to fall in love with some prince charming.

Eleanor is an apprentice fairy godmother, highly enthusiastic and eager to learn the tricks of the trade, but not quite there yet. All her life she has lived in The Motherland, the Gothic fantasy other-world where fairy godmothers come from and where they are raised and trained and have existed for a thousand years. There, she has been taught by her imperious headmistress Moira (Emmy winner Jane Curtin), who literally wrote the book on “godmothering,” all the very traditional fairy tale notions of what girls aspire to—going to balls in beautiful gowns, marrying Prince Charming and also things like turning pumpkins into carriages and mice into footmen.

Mackenzie is a world-weary widow who lives in Boston with her daughters Jane (Jillian Shea Spaeder) and Mia (Willa Skye) and is exhausted from trying to juggle all the responsibilities of motherhood with a high pressure and mostly unrewarding job on the number four local news program. After her husband was killed in a car crash four years ago, she’s closed herself off from any dreams of romance or happiness and has just focused on getting through the day. With babysitting help from her sister Paula (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), Mackenzie has tried her best to raise her daughters to be as pragmatic as she is about what life has to offer.

Eleanor’s and Mackenzie’s worlds collide one day when, due to a lack of demand for fairy godmothers, The Motherland is in great danger of shutting down, with everyone to be retrained as tooth fairies. Desperate to find something that will validate the need for fairy godmothers to continue to exist, Eleanor finds a letter from Mackenzie asking for help, unaware that she sent it decades ago. With the help of her roommate, Agnes (Oscar® nominee June Squibb), Eleanor is transported from The Motherland to 21st century Boston, in order to find Mackenzie and use what she has learned from Moira to bring happiness to her life.

The woefully naïve fairy godmother expects to find things perfectly situated as you might in a typical fairytale story. But instead, she runs right into the wall that is Boston in the present day. A lot of the comedy is just her trying to make sense of today’s world.

There’s conflict between Eleanor’s expectations and what she thinks being a fairy godmother and what she thinks magic is like. But then when she’s confronted with the real world, all her expectations come crashing down in a hilarious way.

It’s filled with magic: wands, fairy godmothers and woodland creatures, but we also get to subvert that legacy for comedy. Eleanor is untrained in magic, so none of her spells go according to plan and Happily Ever After is delivered in a very different way than we’ve come to expect in previous Disney movies.

From her first encounter with the much-older-than-she-expected Mackenzie, it is evident that this assignment is not going to be easy for Eleanor. Their differences make them a comically unharmonious odd couple, a recipe for laughs galore.

From her first encounter with the much-older-than-she-expected Mackenzie, it is evident that this assignment is not going to be easy for Eleanor. Their differences make them a comically unharmonious odd couple, a recipe for laughs in a buddy comedy.

Sweet, sugary, naïve Eleanor runs into this cynical kind of pragmatic woman who’s lost her belief in magic. She started as a young girl who believed in fairy godmothers and magic and all that could be. But life has worn that down for her and she no longer prioritizes her own happiness. She’s not worried about finding her Prince Charming, she’s just pragmatically trying to make it through things. Eleanor is trying to nudge her in the direction of following a formula to become ‘happily ever after’ when Mackenzie’s not really looking for that.

This is such a heartwarming film, filled with great messages of hope, self-discovery and believing in yourself with lots of laughs along the way. That the true meaning of ‘Happily Ever After” isn’t what we’ve all grown up to think it means in fairy tales. “Godmothered” is a great uplifting film to watch during this holiday season on Disney+!