6.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
The Best Man Holiday (2013)
Overview
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.5
Overview
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's apolitical core conflict of personal and relational struggles is resolved through solutions that strongly emphasize traditional family values, faith, forgiveness, and individual responsibility, aligning its dominant themes with a right-leaning perspective.
The movie showcases a predominantly Black main cast, providing visible diversity without engaging in explicit recasting of traditionally white roles. Its narrative focuses on the characters' personal journeys and relationships, framing traditional identities neutrally or positively rather than offering a critique.
Secondary
The film includes a past same-sex kiss involving a main character, Julian, revealed through a video of his stripper days. This serves as a plot point to create marital conflict, which is resolved through forgiveness and the reaffirmation of his heterosexual marriage. The depiction is neither affirming nor denigrating of LGBTQ+ identity, using the past interaction primarily as a catalyst for drama within a heterosexual relationship.
The film portrays Christian faith, traditions, and community as a central, positive force, offering solace, hope, and a framework for forgiveness and reconciliation among the characters, especially during the Christmas holiday. Characters find strength and unity through their shared faith.
The film "The Best Man Holiday" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses exclusively on the relationships and personal lives of its cisgender, heterosexual main cast, with no elements related to transgender identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This film is a direct sequel featuring the original cast reprising their established roles. No character who was canonically male or female in the prior installment is portrayed as a different gender in this film.
The film is a direct sequel to "The Best Man" (1999), featuring the original ensemble cast. All main characters retain the same race as established in the prior installment, with no changes to their racial portrayal.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.6
6.5
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7.1
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