A True Gift for the Holiday Season!
This is a fabulous holiday movie that focuses on the really true and important things that the holidays bring. I watched this movie every year for three years when I was in high school and fell in love with it. Then it dropped out of sight and I did not see it again for almost 20 years when I sought it out on the internet.
This movie has very special meaning to me. I watch it ever year without fail. Think how you would feel to be in Janet's shoes. Failing business due to a struggling economy (not so different today huh?) the sudden loss of her mother and sinking into a deep depression. The only place she wanted to go was home. Home where she was embraced by her family and had time to reflect on where she had been and where she was going. Time to realize that life is short and we only have a certain amount of time to focus on what is truly important. Love and family.
Get this movie and watch it with your children. Keep it on the shelf next to "It's a...
One of my favorite all-time movies
This movie is called a Christmas movie, but execpt for the fact that the story takes place during the Christmas season, it's not really all that much of a Christmas story. Neither Santa Claus nor Jesus are ever mentioned, there's only one present given and it's given in secret, and most of the forced "we are given this holiday to remember what's really important" is left out, though you do get that message anyway. I used to see this movie on television every year and then suddenly it disappeared. I had it on VHS and didn't care whether it showed on tv or not, until VHS started to go out of style and I couldn't find it on DVD. But now it is available here and there and it's well worth watching. The story is about a woman with two kids, one teen and the other two or three years younger. Her husband runs a big department store, owned by his family for generations. Suddenly, the economy is bad, they're about to lose the store AND the house, the kids are getting in fights (the boy,...
i cant belive i found this movie.
i have been looking for this movie for 20 years,i was so happy when i found it on amazon.this is one of the the holiday movies i love to sit down with a cup of coffee and the tree lights on and watch with no one around.thank you again amazon for always having what im looking for.
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