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Here is a film which was created for families to enjoy during the holiday season. It would appear that while it is created for the whole family to enjoy, the target age range is from 9 – 11, is going to enjoy this movie the best. Even though this movie was created for the general public to enjoy it could be a great tool for foster and adoptive families to use for conversations.
This movie is the classic “Santa Claus must save Christmas,” film. It kicks off with introducing the Pierce family celebrating several years of Christmas via home videos. The audience can see through the videos that the Pierce father has a great passion for creating wonderful family experiences through Christmas celebrations. However, just like any movie of this genre, we quickly lose these perfect and heartwarming family moments when it is insinuated that the father has passed away in an incident related to his firefighting profession.
The family’s life after the father’s death finds each member struggling with the grieving process in various ways. The teenage son, Teddy, is stealing cars with his friends unbeknownst to his mother, who is working long and strange hours as a single mother.
The action of the movie really takes off when Kate believes she has caught a glimpse of Santa Claus in an old home movie from a past Christmas. Kate talks her brother into helping her catch Santa on video as he delivers presents while their mom is called into work overnight at the hospital. Through a series of events the children accidentally cause Santa to crash his sleigh and must help him locate his reindeer, elves, toy sack and magic hat in order to save Christmas.
Actor, Kurt Russell, as Santa Claus brings a strong performance to this film and the film in general has several funny hijinks which are perfect for a holiday film. The special effects and CGI characters are believable and great for a film that was not released for the movie theater.
Personally, I felt that this film would probably not win any major awards but it was perfect for winning the laughter and…
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About the Author: Darren Fink
Co-founder and President of Transfiguring Adoption as well as children’s book author, Darren is a graduate of Illinois State University where he studied fine art. He offers foster and adoptive parents over a decade of experience in parenting foster and adoptive children, as well as his introductory to counseling training.
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**Transfiguring Adoption is a nonprofit organization seeking to nurture growth in foster and adoptive families by giving a HOOT about their families. Transfiguring Adoption does not intend for its reviewers nor its review to be professional, medical or legal advice. These reviews and discussion guides are intended to help parents to better be able to connect and understand their children who come from traumatic backgrounds.
