2023 · family · adventure · comedy
The Naughty Nine
Directed by Alberto Belli1h 23m2023
Fifth-grader Andy finds himself without a present from Santa on Christmas morning. Realizing he must have landed on the “naughty list” and feeling unfairly maligned, Andy pulls together a team of eight other naughty-listers to help him execute an elaborate heist on Santa’s Village at the North Pole to get the presents they feel they deserve.
Our read: The Naughty Nine (2023) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded family · adventure · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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