Oh. What. Fun.
Oh. What. Fun. is a 2025 American Christmas films|Christmas] comedy film directed by Michael Showalter, written by Chandler Baker and Showalter, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Felicity Jones, Chloë Grace Moretz, Denis Leary, Dominic Sessa, with Jason Schwartzman, Eva Longoria, and Joan Chen. It tells the story of the family matriarch going through the obstacles of planning the perfect Christmas with her husband, her three kids, and her grandkids while contending with her neighbor from across the street with comical results. The film was released on December 3, 2025, on Amazon Prime Video. The film received negative reviews from critics.
Plot
Texas housewife Claire Clauster spends the entire year planning the perfect family Christmas for her husband Nick and their three children Channing, Taylor and Sammy. The children and their guests arrive two days before Christmas: Channing brings her husband Doug Austin and young twins Lucy and Ben, while Taylor brings DJ Sweatpants, the latest in a long line of girlfriends. Meanwhile, underemployed slacker Sammy is morose over his partner Mae-Bell dumping him.The Clauster clan takes Claire's efforts for granted and ignore her hints that she wants to be nominated for the Best Holiday Mom contest, which would result in an all-expenses-paid trip to Burbank to meet her idol, talk show host Zazzy Tims. In an effort to one-up her neighbor Jeanne Wang-Wasserman's gift, Claire takes Channing shopping. Channing admits that she wants to form new Christmas traditions, which upsets Claire. She steals a large candle from a store and escapes a large group of mall cops.
While Claire briefly goes to the Wang-Wassermans', her family members forget to take her along on a Christmas-themed dance show she had gotten them tickets for. A fed-up Claire drives away. Hours later, she winds up at a motel and shares a room with delivery driver Morgan. Claire's car is towed for being in the yellow zone and she purchases a beater, a 1976 AMC Pacer, from the motel owner. She decides to drive to California to gatecrash Zazzy's Holiday Mom contest.
Meanwhile, the Clauster family falls into disarray. Over Christmas Eve dinner, the siblings argue about their life paths, and Doug reveals to DJ Sweatpants that Taylor brought a female friend over to the house earlier. Taylor explains that the woman was a heterosexual jeweler who had made a ring with which Taylor was going to propose. However, DJ Sweatpants was already uncomfortable with Taylor's dating history as they only dated for three months and leaves. Sammy goes to a local bar and encounters his longtime crush Lizzie, one of Jeanne's daughters.
On Christmas morning, the Clausters go next door to collect Sammy where they guiltily catch Claire on Zazzy Tims' show. Claire blurts out that she had to invite herself as her family did not appreciate her. An amused Zazzy later bonds with Claire over mothers feeling underappreciated and Claire goes viral. The next morning, Zazzy arranges for the Clausters to reunite with Claire on her show. Off-camera, Claire and her children make up, while Sammy rejects a repentant Mae-Bell as they go their separate ways.
One year later, the Clausters and the Wang-Wassermans go on a ski trip together. Sammy and Lizzie are now dating. Taylor is now dating a woman named Serena. Claire relaxes in a barrel-shaped hot tub as her family prepares dinner.
Cast
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Claire Clauster, the matriarch of the family. She also serves as the narrator of the film.
- Felicity Jones as Channing Clauster Austin, Claire's oldest daughter.
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Taylor Clauster, Claire's middle daughter.
- Denis Leary as Nick Clauster, Claire's husband.
- Dominic Sessa as Sammy Clauster, Claire's youngest son.
- Danielle Brooks as Morgan, a delivery truck driver that, Claire meets.
- Jason Schwartzman as Doug Austin, Channing's husband.
- Eva Longoria as Zazzy Tims, the host of a popular talk show.
- Joan Chen as Jeanne Wang-Wasserman, Claire's neighbor from across the street.
- Devery Jacobs as Donna/DJ Sweatpants, Taylor's girlfriend.
- Havana Rose Liu as Lizzie Wang-Wasserman, Jeanne's second daughter.
- Maude Apatow as Mae-Bell, Sammy's ex-girlfriend.
- Rose Abdoo as Jane
- Kurt Braunohler as Knut
- Saidah Ekulona as Martha
- Rafaella Karnaby as Lucy Austin, Channing and Doug's daughter and Claire and Nick's granddaughter.
- Drake Shehan as Ben Austin, Channing and Doug's son, Claire and Nick's grandson, and Lucy's fraternal twin brother.
- Douglas S. Jones as Jeff Wang-Wasserman, Jeanne's husband.
- Michael Lee Kimel as Gar Wang-Wasserman, Jeanne's first son.
- Elizabeth Lilyan Wood as Astrid Wang-Wasserman, Jeanne's first daughter.
- Audrey Hui as Diane
- Zac Oyama as Marcus Wang-Wasserman, Jeanne's second son.
- Tanya Lim as Trish
- Madolyn Tipton as Serena, a woman that Taylor dates at the end of the film.
- The Bird and the Bee as themselves, they appear as the musical guests on The Zazzy Tims Show.
Production