Movie #1434 "Dear Santa" was kind of "out there" in nuttiness, due to the goofy things the lead girl would say or do (or the faces she made). She was playing a twenty something girl who never finished college and is now aimlessly moving from one job to the next. But she has figured out that she really doesn't have to work with her parents always busy working and making lots of money. She knows that is not what she wants to do, but she can't seem to find a place for herself --- then, all of a sudden, a letter blows into her window (ah, I know, that miracle of the season thing that I dislike, but it's small this time, so I looked the other way -- hah!) that ends up to be a xmas letter to Santa asking for a wife for her father...........she thinks what the heck, this might be fate -- why don't I at least check the situation out and she does --- she finds out he works part time at a food place, and the other times he isn't there he is working in snow removal, and digging cars out of ditches, and everything else the town needs him for, besides trying to raise his little daughter without a mother. Crystal (the young woman) becomes quick friends with both the dad and the daughter --- meanwhile, the dad has been dating a former girlfriend whom he dropped when he had met his wife (who is now dead) --- that lady clearly doesn't care about the daughter, so Crystal feels she could do some good here --- things of course fall apart in the last half an hour of the film, that seems a bit blown out of proportion, but the people are good enough to pull it off. I'd give this a 4. I liked it a lot!
"DEAR SANTA" 2011 1 hour and 32 minutes 4 out of 5 stars
Finding a letter mailed to Santa by a girl asking for a new wife for her daddy, twenty something Crystal sets out to make the girl's wishes come true.
Staring: Amy Acker, David Haydn-Jones, Patrick Creery, Gina Holden, James Dugan
Director: Jason Priestly (we know him!!! from 90210)
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