festive cheer: a working-class Long Island Christmas

from a filmmaker who I don't understand why he isn't way more famous

I love Edward Burns’s movies, and I don’t understand why he is not much more famous. Or maybe I’m just too close to his movies. Of his 2012 film The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, I wrote:

[A] spot-on portrait of middle-class Irish-American life on Long Island…

Part of this is all me: Burns’ world is my world too — he could easily be one of the cousins in …