This Is Our Christmas

This is a perfect holiday film for the family. The story is simple but enjoyable. There is true Christmas values and spiritual elements which are rare to find nowadays in most films. Clearly a low budget film but the cast is great and it is beautifully shot and directed. My kids liked it. We enjoyed it.

What I like about this Christmas movie is that they story was very grounded in reality. A young LA teenager is struggling with the loss of her Mom during the holidays. She is dealing with an empty feeling and is resentful. At the end of the movie she has a real transformation and she seems to come around. My family liked it. I enjoyed seeing Jerry & Ravin having fun in the snow filled mountains. Sorry for the other folks who watched it and did not see what we saw or got from this cute little film. I thought that the movie was pretty well acted considering what I see on Hallmark and Up Tv. The look and tone of the film was solid.

Such a cute little Christmas film! We loved it. It made us cry.

Very happily surprised to come across this little gold nugget of a holiday movie. I began to watch the film and enjoyed the characters that seemed very light hearted and Frank Capra esque. Then mid way through the film a distinguished older woman named Grandma Foxworth comes into a bakery. I kept looking and said to myself, "I know this actress". It was none other than Oscar winner Margaret O'Brien (Meet Me & St. Louis & Little Woman). Margaret and her grandson played by Vincent De Paul (James Foxworth) are magnificent together. They are classic old Hollywood in 2018. The movie looks like it could have been shot in 1940's style. I love Christmas movies filmed particularly in Hollywood. It had great nostalgia for me.

Not great acting and a ridiculous number of plot lines. Most of which were ridiculous! They could have taken half the plot lines and still had too many.