'Les Miserables' Role Gave Russell Crowe 'Delicious' Anxiety

Christmas Day at the box office is always a gift to the film industry, but yesterday, one studio got to unwrap an especially happy present. Universal's ambitious adaptation of the beloved operetta Les Misèrables started off with a

Tom Hooper's film of the musical Les Miserables is an exceptional movie of a mediocre musical, the kind of middlebrow melodrama that passes for profound on Broadway.

Les Miserables and Django Unchained score big at the box office on Christmas Day.

UPDATED: The holiday sees strong traffic at the multiplex; family comedy "Parental Guidance" also opens.

Anne Hathaway talks being difficult to be around while filming Les Misérables.