The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle tv-movie / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Five-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Henry Winkler stars in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, the story of what happens when you open your heart to the power of Christmas. Disenchanted single mom Jennifer Cullen (Brooke Burns) is a Scroogette when it comes to anything Christmas. In fact, even her six-year-old son, Brian, is having trouble believing in Santa Claus. But when her Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler) visits and brings a fellow passenger from his flight named Morgan Derby (Warren Christie), Jennifer s dubious heart awakens to the possibility that perhaps Christmas really does hold miracles. It s uplifting and laugh-packed and a story that will inspire the whole family to believe.
Our read · The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded tv-movie · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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