There must be something wrong with me because I really enjoyed this movie. I'm so happy that there wasn't a "big" tree lighting to go to and they weren't trying to save the town. Quite the opposite - just a good old family Christmas with Monique who steals the show. Great, great casting all around.
Almost Christmas
2016
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Almost Christmas
2016
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Walter Meyer is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life one year earlier. Now that the holiday season is here, he invites daughters Rachel and Cheryl and sons Christian and Evan to his house for a traditional celebration. Poor Walter soon realizes that if his bickering children and the rest of the family can spend five days together under the same roof, it will truly be a Christmas miracle.
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January 25, 2017 at 05:16 PM
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Really Enjoyable
Good Enough
The movie wasn't a cliche, feel good, cheesy christmas movie. The family drama was intense and it was nicely put, but it got boring at times. The performances were pretty decent too.
Inoffensive and meaningless
Danny Glover plays an aging widower in this holidays movie. It's been a year since his wife died and now all of his children are gathering back home for Christmas. All the children have problems of their own.
And that's about it. This is about as by the numbers Christmas family drama as you can make it. It's almost comical how every single character has their own little drama moment, their own little life crisis to be solved through the magic of Christmas. And they're such clichéd problems as well. One of the has forgotten to make time for their family. One of them is using a bit too many pills. One of the them doesn't know what direction to take in their life. One of them has problems with their spouse. They're so inoffensive that it's almost offensive in and on itself.
And it's not like the movie isn't well-acted. These are good actors, all of them, with Glover being a legend in his own right. Rather it's the script that doesn't have any backbone to it, nothing to say or to convey.
Then again, even though I was more than a bit exasperated with it, the film is, in the end, harmless. I know that's a faint praise to give, but then, it's a pretty faint movie experience.
See it, don't see it it. It probably won't make much of a difference either way.