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Canadian actor/director Robert Morin delivers a scathing social and family satire, by turns hysterical and just plain disturbing. Call it the "anti-Christmas Carol," Morin's story follows a man's attempts to shock and humiliate his infirm old father on Christmas Eve. The man's got his reasons, of course -- he's got a lifetime of anger and shame stored up, owing to the nightmarish upbringing his father meted out on the family as he was growing up. But now, unable to feed and care for himself, and dependent on the mercy of the state, the old man has become a figure of pity, and the son finds his conscience suddenly threatening to complicate his ploy for revenge.