The family of Materi Whitfield has not gathered for four years at one table. But the family returns after a long absence and is reunited on Christmas. But Christmas may be a black day for everyone, when many disasters and secrets are never seen. There are secrets that everyone will know about, hidden from them about the real military situation of Clark Marrod and the increasing debt of Quentin. Famous singer, to other secrets and tales of Christmas.
If the real-life Christmas experience tends too often to be marred by the rude contradiction between expectations and reality, movies like the ultra-bland holiday family movie This Christmas are at least partly to blame.
An incoherent mess in which scenes of teary reconciliations sit uncomfortably next to protracted gags involving catfights, car wrecks and a big bottle of baby oil.
Sacramento News & Review
December 03, 2007
...there's a genuine feeling of a real family's real Christmas, with all its heat as well as warmth, the kind of thing that's missing from the plastic platitudes of holiday junk like Fred Claus...
o matter how silly the situation, each member of the uniformly strong cast creates a nice balance between sentimental and sweet -- which is just how every holiday gathering should feel.
