The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Movie • 2024
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The Herdmans – Gladys, Claude, Imogene, Leroy, Ollie and Ralph – are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they’re taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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The herdman children are abandoned by their father and their mother is never home
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While no violence, the herdman children are being abused in the form of neglect.
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While no violence, the herdman children are being abused in the form of neglect.
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It's offscreen and only implied; during a montage of the Herdmans acting up, one of them brings their feral cat into the classroom for show-and-tell. A boy with a fishbowl is seen crying over it, now empty; the book has the cat eat all the classroom fish, but the film doesn't show this at all, meaning the fish could plausibly have just fallen out.
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A cat eats a child's pet fish offscreen.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Charlie is bully directly and all children bullied by the herdmans
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Does someone break a bone?
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Original pageant leader gets two broken legs. Doesn’t happen on screen, just seen in casts
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Mentions at the end of the film that one of the kids is incarcerated
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There is a scene where multiple babies are shown as options for baby Jesus in the pageant. However a doll is used in the end
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Are there fat jokes?
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Actually removed the fat jokes from the book.
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Low-income children are treated callously over their situation but most of the people who do this see the error in their ways by the end.
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Women are mostly shown to conform to 1970s-era gender roles.
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The entire movie revolves around the church and the true story of Christmas and Jesus’s birth
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