A Little Christmas Business
2013
Action / Drama / Family
A Little Christmas Business
2013
Action / Drama / Family
Plot summary
Don Collier has a wonderful life and family, but no time to enjoy either. His impossible boss even has him collecting signatures for a huge project the day before Christmas, but as he goes office to office it seems that every signer is a ghost from his past, and he soon begins to wonder if this is coincidence... or heavenly intervention.
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Daniel Baldwin is a hunk. I took a
**Spoiler** As if you need it.
At 67 minutes, it runs 22 minutes too long. A 45 minute episode of "Touched By An Angel" might almost have got away with it, without too much padding.
No internal consistency. It's mostly a concussion dream. Not a spoiler really as it's obvious from the "falling on stairs" scene. Things that happen in the dream have results in the post concussion "real" world, the real world intrudes into the dream.
It's a retelling of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" but without any ghosts of Christmas Present, or Future.
The boss is clearly Ebenezer Scrooge, with no redemption, Don Collier is Bob Pratchett, but doesn't get a turkey. (Other than the script that is). There's a kid from Don's past who sounds like a 1948 New York street urchin. How old is Don BTW?
I gave it 2 stars rather than 1 just for the cast title credit for Santa Clause. Yes, with an E. I'm hoping it's a joke, along the lines of the Marx Brothers;
Groucho: That's the standard Sanity Clause.
Chico: You can't fool me, there's a-no Sanity Clause.







