SYNOPSICS
Family for Christmas (2015) is a English movie. Amanda Tapping has directed this movie. Lacey Chabert,Tyron Leitso,Milli Wilkinson,Audrey Smallman are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2015. Family for Christmas (2015) is considered one of the best Drama,Family,Fantasy,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Hannah Dunbar finds herself wondering what would have been had she stayed with the love of her life, Ben, 10 years before. When Santa Claus hears her talking he takes it as a Christmas wish and he transports Hannah to a version of her life where she and Ben started a family. Hannah, who literally becomes a mother overnight, navigates the comical day-to-day challenges of life in the suburbs with Ben and their daughters Caitlin and Hailie.
Family for Christmas (2015) Reviews
Hallmark makes horror movies?
*** SPOILERS AHEAD **** As disturbing, dystopian horror movies and black comedies go, I thought this one was pretty good. The main character, a relatively content and successful person, is sent by a creepy "Santa" into an alternate universe (because he says she made a wish without knowing it) where she loses everything she worked her whole life towards, and is thrust into an awkward and macabre "family" where she has two "daughters" and a "husband" with whom she shares nothing in common and has no semblance of familial chemistry or even congruity. She is forced to try to adapt to this nightmare by changing everything that made her who she is, and becoming what those people demand her to be. When she finally gets to a point where she is barely able to survive in that environment, the creepy "Santa" puts her back into her original life. The circumstances are so disorienting and traumatic for her that she finds herself unable to deal with her original life, she begs "Santa" to put her back in the alternate universe and he says he can't, and then the movie ends. I didn't notice if any credit for story inspiration was given to Franz Kafka. For me, packaging the movie in the usual Hallmark style production elements made it even more effective as horror, and I will have difficulty sleeping. Fortunately, outside of Lacey Chabert's performance, which as always comes across as sincere and natural, there was not a single note in the movie which rang true, so I will be able to forget the experience of watching it soon. I'm glad the movie premiered in July, because I prefer not to watch horror movies during the actual Christmas season.
Set women back 50 years!
SPOILER ALERT! This move set women back at least 50 years! I was so disappointed. I love Hallmark movies and look forward to the Christmas movies every year but the message this movie gives is horrible. Basically, women can't have a career AND a family and should choose to stay at home. The main character of the movie gives up her boyfriend to take a job in the city and has a very successful career as a TV reporter. He contacts her online after many years so she starts thinking about what would have happened if she had stayed with him. She gets the opportunity after talking to Santa and ends up waking up in the suburbs married with two kids. In this alternate reality she is a stay-at-home mom but misses her career. She ends up getting the attention of the station she works for in the alternate reality and they offer her a job. Her husband gets upset and makes her feel guilty so she doesn't take the job. Her boss even tells her that if she take this job she can only love her career. What is that about? There are many reporters with families. I'm sure they would find this insulting! It had promise and I was thinking the message would be to find the right balance to have both if that's what you want. There's nothing wrong with a career and there's nothing wrong with being a stay-at-home mom but why can't you have both a career and family? Many people do!
Another movie that shows women are only happy if they are married
BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW TO THEIR NAME. NOW WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MOVIE. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THE FILM. NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 200 HOLIDAY MOVIES. I HAVE NO AGENDA. I AM FARE. Family for Christmas is a 2015 American-Canadian holiday romantic comedy directed by Amanda Tapping and starring Lacey Chabert and Tyron Leitso. Written by Bryar Freed, the film is about a successful single career woman who, after meeting a man playing Santa Claus during her office Christmas party, wakes up the following morning to find herself married to her college sweetheart and two kids. The television film first aired on July 11, 2015 on the Hallmark Channel. This is whole film is just sends a mixed message to women. It shows that a woman will only be truly happy if she is married with children. In real life not every woman is meant to be a parent. Also mot all women want to have children. And not all women that have children are happy being a mother. In this film has a successful television news reporter has her life change overnight by waking and finding that she is no longer a success reporter but married with children living in the suburbs. Movies like this send a terrible message that women can not have a career and a family. This film shows this woman could of had a career but her husbands doesn't want her too. At the end she leaves her job to make her husband happy! PLEASE. This films should be burned.
Sexist, Patriarchal BS
This movie was beyond disappointing and I usually love Hallmark movies; but the patriarchal messaging behind the movie was just insulting. Basically the movie is about a successful TV news reporter who gets a chance to see what life with the her boyfriend could have been if she hadn't taken a job offer in San Fran. So she wakes up with a husband and two kids and she's a stay at home mom. I am not saying there is anything wrong with this life but she seems basically miserable the whole time and out of place and then she gets an opportunity to get a job, a job she loves mind you, and her husband basically guilts her into turning it down. The whole movies just feels forced as if they are pushing being a stay at home mom and nothing more and being at home to cook dinner, god forbid you order a pizza, for you family and take your kids to school, and baking cookies all day. If that's you thing, go ahead, but if that's what you don't want to do and be, you can work and be a good mom. But the movie basically crushes her and insinuates she doesn't care about her family when an opportunity for a job that she loves and is passionate about comes along. It's 2015. Get with the times. All in all, I was disappointed and insulted watching this.
Pleasantly surprising Christmas movie
In the beginning of the film, it didn't not immediately pull me in. It seemed like the film felt cold despite the fact that this is a Christmas movie. I didn't pay full attention to the characters or the world they were in. The film's main protagonist, Hannah, meets Santa, although he looks like one of those hired Santa's you see out on the street. Following that day, she wakes up to find that she's living in a completely different house, with kids and a husband that she never had. This is where the film gets interesting. Normally what you would expect is a hilarious realization that something is not quite right. However that's not how it came across for me. Hannah seemed initially frightened and overwhelmed by the whole experience. Gradually, Hannah becomes accustomed to this life as she plays it out. You definitely realize the difference where other movies would give you a light, zany, and fun vibe at such a crazy scenario (such as Hallmark's own Just In Time For Christmas released this year), but this film actually makes it scary, which is odd, but refreshing. Of course, this wouldn't be a Hallmark Christmas movie without the recognition of what's most important about Christmas. The movie transitions into a more positive note as Hannah enjoys her alternate life and lives it as if she's always had it. The film then does a complete 180 and takes it all away. The magic Christmas feeling and atmosphere disappears and the tension and apprehension sets in, bringing us back to the state before Hannah started living the alternate life. Instead of being frightened because she suddenly had this family and different life, she's frightened because she doesn't have it. In traditional Christmas movie fashion, she gets the opportunity to change her life for the better. Part of the reason I think this film is so good is that it depicts a woman who is so obsessed with her career that literally it is all she has. The magic about movies is that we can explore the 'what if's'. In the alternate reality, Hannah is surrounded by people who love her. Her life is fulfilling and satisfying. She is happy. In her real world, she has no one but her job. She is alone and later realizes she is miserable. Her job is no comparison to the family that she got a brief glimpse of. I think that it speaks to today's audience quite well. It gives us a glimpse into what people enjoyed in the 1950's, and all that we've lost along the way to our present day. Kudos to the writers, to Hallmark, the cast, crew and Amanda Tapping for a great job as director (I'm a huge fan of SG!)