Director: Gail Harvey
Written by: Monica Parker, Nancey Silvers
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Rob Stewart, Brenda Crichlow, Brittney Wilson
A woman is left homeless and destitute when her husband leaves her for another woman.
Joy oh joy, a film that doesn't suck! Much like finding a bar in the Atacama desert, this film served to wet the parched landscape of my viewing. It's by no means a great film, in fact it's barely a good one, but compared to the previous eight it's like watching Bergman.
I think it succeeds because it's not really a christmas film. It could have been set at any time, the fact it's set at christmas it largely incidental, so basically it's just a straight drama. Shorn of many of the typical trappings of the christmas film and, above all, the genre's cloying sentimentality, it's free just to get on with the story. That story is simple, but it's perfectly serviceable in the tradition of daytime TV movies.
Linda Hamilton is OK in the lead, but a pale shadow of her former self, nothing like the actress she was in Terminator 2 or even Dante's Peak. She looks old too. That's not a criticism of her - most of us will get there eventually, but she's clearly supposed to be playing someone younger and it just doesn't work.
3/5
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