Did Ben Affleck star in a movie called “Surviving Christmas”?
In “Surviving Christmas,” Ben Affleck stars as a rich, single guy who wants to recapture the joy of Christmas by spending the holiday at his childhood home. There’s only one catch: the people living there are complete strangers. In this interview, Ben Affleck spreads some early holiday cheer by talking about his role in “Surviving Christmas,” starring in a comedy, and even shares a few Christmas memories of his own. Is Christmas so hard that you need to survive it? (Laughing) Some people do. Yeah, some people do. It’s family, really. This is more a movie about family. Christmas just represents that time when families get together and start kind of making each other crazy. We love our families but they’re like us and I think we kind of sometimes don’t like things about ourselves. We seem [those traits] in our family members so they make us irritated. And this really is a movie about a guy who pays for someone to pretend to be his family, and then makes them crazy just like he would his
