A Christmas Eve Miracle (2015)
Not Rated
Starring Olivia d'Abo, Anthony Starke, Josh Reid, Dina DeLaurentiis, Jon Voight, Johnathan Silverman, William Riley, C. Thomas Howell,
Directed by R. Michael Givens
The Story:
Sharron (d'Abo) is a workaholic who always wants more on her plate, often to the detriment of her marriage to Dustin (Starke) and their two kids (Reid, DeLaurentiis). On a vacation during the holidays, the innkeeper (Riley) overhears Sharron's wish that the kids had better parents and that she could have had a more successful career like she wanted.
Be careful what you wish for.
Where to begin on this one?
A spin on It's A Wonderful Life, and more in line with the thinking of The Family Man , Sharron gets to wake up the next morning and see what life would have been like if she had never had kids.
The problem, the kids she never had are next door and being raised by another family at the lodge and they aren't nearly as well behaved or apparently happy as they used to be.
Sharron desperately wants them back, but she made the wish, and now she's stuck with it.
Unless of course she gets really desperate and wishes everything to be back to the way it was.
I know you've heard me mention how 2 hour movies sometimes don't feel like it...
Well, this 80 minute movie feels like you're there a lot longer than you really are.
And, I'm still not certain why the movie begins, ends and at times in the middle, is narrated by the family dog (Voight). And unusual narrative choice, to be sure, and that they bother to include it at all is odd and sadly sets the tone for the whole movie.
I'll be kind and not fail my 2nd Christmas movie of the year.
Nah, on second thought...
Final Grade: D+
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