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- Emily
- (as Piper Harris)
- Band Member - Bassist
- (Nicht genannt)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesWas featured on episode 360 of the comedy podcast How Did This Get Made with special guest Jessica St. Clair
- PatzerWhen Matt and Kristi go for hot chocolate and Matt reaches up for a can of instant cocoa, the can is mainly white with writing. In a later shot, the can has changed and has a green band at the top.
- Zitate
Matt Sanders: Emily, Dinner Time!
Emily: Missghetti!
Matt Sanders: Spaghetti! Oh, careful sweetie. The stove's hot, okay?
Emily: Uncle Matt, Missghetti means you haven't made it in a long time... . and i miss it! Get it? Missghetti?
Matt Sanders: Hey Listen, go wash your hands. Dinner is gonna be ready in five minutes, Okay?
- VerbindungenReferences Full House: Matchmaker Michelle (1991)
- SoundtracksNutcracker March
Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by MX47, William Rogowski and Jason Bradley
Published by Hollywood Jukebox
Watching 'Christmas Mail' as part of the Christmas film quest that has been happening for the past three years (something that was very much necessary after a tough time), it was for me on neither extreme of brilliant or terrible and found myself neither loving or hating it. If anything my opinion is somewhere in between and am actually pretty conflicted on what my stance is. With there being a fair share of good things but also an equal number of things that didn't work. Can totally understand the mixed response here.
'Christmas Mail' does have good things. Ashley Scott is engaging enough in her role, though her character could have been better developed. AJ Buckley is easy going and likeable as the more interesting and likeable character. The supporting cast are solid. The chemistry between Scott and Buckley was sweet.
The film is limited in setting but is pleasingly filmed at least. The music had an affectionate festive atmosphere and had me smiling and humming along, as good music should do. There are moments that amuse, true the humour is very exaggerated but it was still fun and easy to take when aware of the exaggeration being intentional, and others that are quite sweet. The first half is charming and engages.
Less engaging was the final third in particular, where things got rather contrived and silly. Also found that it did lose quite a bit of energy from thinning out, while also finding the main revelation poorly done with a barely discernible and unintentionally creepy phone voice and the ending feels too neat and anti-climactic.
Some of the dialogue is awkward and has too much cheese and schmaltz and the film could have done a lot more with developing Scott's character, who comes over as too childish and naive and not much else with her motivations too vague at best. Some of the editing looked sloppy.
In conclusion, hit and miss but watchable. 5/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- 2. Mai 2022
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- Budget
- 2.500.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 29 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix