

But it’s a lot of Jews writing this stuff.” “They probably think we burn pictures of Donald Trump in our backyard. “We’re liberal Jews writing Christmas movies,” says Tippi, acknowledging the irony that their bread and butter is calibrated to appeal to decidedly goyishe red-state values.


Never mind that they don’t celebrate Christmas themselves. The Dobrofskys hadn’t set out to become Christmas movie specialists (they actually got their start writing about serial killers), but like so many working screenwriters, the couple gravitated to what was selling and found they had a knack for screwball dialogue and clever spins on Christmas-movie conventions.
