The Christmas Movies
continue and today I watched ‘Dear Santa’ which was released in 2011. Again it’s
a bit cheesy but it’s still a cool movie. It is again a bit like the story of scrooge,
except there is no bah humbug, just a misdirection of life.
The story focus on
Crystal Carruthers (played by Amy Acker) who is a thirty year old woman who
loves shopping, spending her wealthy parent’s money and not doing much else.
Her parents feel she needs to get serious about like and tell her she has to
Christmas to get her life in order.
While looking in a shop
window a letter which has fallen out of the post box flies into Crystal’s arms.
It is a Dear Santa letter from a little girl who wishes for a mum as her own
mum died a few years ago and her dad has been miserable since and she just
wants a mum again. So Crystal decides to take matters into her own hands and
appears in their lives in order to get the Dad (Derek) to fall in love with her
as she thinks that would solve her problems and get her parents off her back.
Crystal is being very
selfish in what she is doing.
In order to endear
herself to Derek, (played by David Haydn-Jones) Crystal volunteers in his soup kitchen serving
the homeless – at the start she was not wanting to really touch the homeless
but gradually she begins to see the people who they really are - people, and in turn she changes and is
starting to become a more caring person.
Crystal makes friends
with Olivia, (played by Emma Duke) Derek’s daughter and the girl who wrote the
letter and they become friends. You can see that Derek is starting to fall for
Crystal but there is a problem, he has a girlfriend who is determined to get
her claws into Derek much to the annoyance of Olivia as she does not like her
and doesn’t want her as a mother figure.
However this girlfriend
Jillian (played by Gina Holden) exposes Crystal as a liar and turns Derek
against her.
The subplot of the movie
is that Derek cannot afford to keep the soup kitchen open and Crystal seeing
the pain of the homeless decides to use the $10,000 check she got from her
parents, their final payment to support her, to keep the soul kitchen
open. Soon after Derek is driving past
the soup kitchen and discovers it is open and on asking Pete - the chef – what is
happening Pete tells him that maybe it was fate that brought the letter to
Crystal and then Crystal to him.
Derek goes home to say
goodnight to Olivia but discovers she is not in bed, he goes to look for her
and finds her by the town Christmas tree with Crystal. Just as she tells the girl that she found her letter to Santa, Derek
arrives, apologizes to her, and the three embrace each other.
The movie ends with
all three of them eating their Christmas Dinner at the Soup Kitchen, all happy.
It is a feel good
movie and about a lost woman finding her purpose in life. I enjoyed it and it
made me smile.
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