A slight improvement in quality from the previous Christmas epic A Mom for Christmas. This film is better only because the cast of professional actors is so much better than the non-acting bunch of that film with one exception. That exception is yet another dreadful little child actor named Juliette Goglia. This kid not only over emotes but sings and dances like some kind of Las Vegas showgirl. Goglia just can't sing a song at a school Christmas pageant she has to murder it. She dances and struts all over the stage like Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls.
Probably the main attraction is the adult cast of the film. It's a list of professional TV actors headed by that old trooper Ernest Borgnine who must have been pushing about 90 years old when they finished this. Borgnine worked into his mid 90's in the entertainment business.
Honestly, this film isn't so hot. The story is another one of those family dramas where nobody likes or understands each other mostly because of some misunderstanding that occurred years ago. These kinds of stories could be easily resolved if everyone sat down and talked to each other but then there would be no movie.
This is the kind of film that would be considered safe viewing for the entire family. Everyone can relate to a sentimental story of a family coming together during the Christmas season and Ernest Borgnine is basically a big loveable teddy bear.
120 minutes
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