Movie #2180 "We Need a Little Christmas" (Hallmark 2022) If you can get through the ending of this one without shedding a tear of happiness, you are a better person than I. You also have to buy into the very caring Mrs. Doubtfire- kind -of -neighbor that the esteemed broadway/film actress Ms. Whitfield plays here --- it works for the little boy right out of the gate --- his heart isn't into being engaged in life very much, he's wounded by grief, and this wonderful neighbor observes that from the get go and well, gets him going. The rest is ....the film! Mom seems in the background for a while, dealing with her own grief, but she's fine once she comes out from under. And the two other real stars of the film, besides the neighbor, are the little boy with doe eyes that MAKE you wonder what's going on in his mind, and the very ,very nice guy who hires the grief-stricken mom to redo his restaurant, when he really doesn't have to --- he looks and acts very normal (for a Hallmark movie) and he's so believable, which helps us to believe the other stuff that is going on. Let's just say this film ends the way you'd want it to --- and isn't that what Christmas is all about? I'd give this a 4.5 and call it a winner so far in the new batch! Highly recommend.
"WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS" 2022 Hallmark
Facing her first Christmas as a single mother, Julie develops an unexpected friendship with an older neighbor.
Director: Kevin Fair
Writers: Graham Locke, Angela Mancuso
Actors: Erica Durance, Lynn Whitfield, Patrick Sabongui, Azriel Dalman (the little kid)
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