Wishin' and Hopin'

2014
Not Rated
1 Std. 27 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

815

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Molly Ringwald and Wyatt Ralff in Wishin' and Hopin' (2014)

Based on the New York Times best-selling Christmas novel by Wally Lamb comes the new Christmas classic.

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Comedy Drama Family

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThe ups and downs of life at a parochial school for 10-year-old Felix as the Christmas nativity pageant approaches.The ups and downs of life at a parochial school for 10-year-old Felix as the Christmas nativity pageant approaches.The ups and downs of life at a parochial school for 10-year-old Felix as the Christmas nativity pageant approaches.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

815

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Ranger Andy (1957) was a real program, airing on WFSB in Hartford. WFSB allowed the filmmakers to use the show, and clips from the program appear inter-cut with footage shot for the film.

Verbindungen
Features Das Geheimnis des Marcellino (1955)

Soundtracks
Jingle Bells
(uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont
[Sung by the schoolchildren in the pageant]

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Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

4/10

A Christmas Story

Wishin' and Hopin' is an untypical Lifetime movie based on a nostalgic book about a Connecticut kid Felix Funicello a 10 year old at a Catholic school whose quirky family own a small diner and are related to a famous celebrity.

He gets to all sorts of scrapes at school with his friends and the film centres on the class preparing for the Christmas play at school when they get a new substitute teacher from Quebec as well as a new student from Russia.

The film did remind me somewhat of A Christmas Story? with all the nostalgia and the narration is provided by Chevy Chase as the older Felix.

The film has a barbed look back at school days of the 1960s, poking fun at Catholic teachers, the Monsignor is played by Meat Loaf! You encounter the kind of classmates I had at school and also see them on the verge of puberty although at 10 years old they were rather early for puberty.

I never really found this plot heavy and nostalgia only can take you so far. It kind of reminded me of shows like The Wonder Years and Chevy Chase's narration told me that Felix must had lived a hard life as its taken it out in his voice.