Un souhait pour Noël

I may be biased, but I'll watch anything with Lea Thompson. I watched 5 years of that wretched Switched at Birth just to see her every week. As for the Christmas Clause... It's a tried and true cable movie story. But Miss Thompson fills the story with life. Her comic skills carry the movie. I also loved her "Angel".

I'm glad this aired under the title "The Christmas Clause" as the original is misleading The Mrs. Clause - and I would've been heartbroken not to see Lea Thompson as Mrs. Clause (I can see the outfit now...).

What you have here is a middling Christmas movie. Everything about this film is average. The script, the direction, the acting (except for Lea Thompson, who is not brilliant in this, but better than average).

It looks like the writers and the director were going for a cliché- ridden movie as in one section Lea's character asks the Santa "Stand-In" - "could this be more clichéd?" But after a very short while, cliché- ing clichés falls flat. And though we all know how this story will end, after all, it is a Christmas film, the writer and director drag it out to the point where you're screaming at the telly, "COME ON ALREADY, FINISH THIS THING!"

If you're a Lea Thompson fan and have yet to watch this I say go for it.

I've watched this movie twice now, it didn't get better with age.

Known as 'All I want for Christmas' here in the UK this film/TV movie is watchable only for a likable performance from Lea Thompson, and then only just.

Using the tried and tested 'It's a Wonderful Life' trick, this is about a stressed out mother who wishes she could have a seemingly more successful and happier woman's life, only of course to realise that her own life was pretty darn great in the first place.

Lea Thompson shines, but everything else about this film is weak, from script to the acting of the other people involved.

I like Lea Thompson, but this isn't a great festive film.

Lea Thompsom stars as Sophie Kelly is a top-rated lawyer with three kids and a husband that take up all her time. All of her family and work stress comes to a chaotic halt at the shopping mall, days before Christmas, when she sees Santa and wishes for a different life. However, the grass is not always greener as a single, successful lawyer with her own firm and the most eligible bachelor vying for her attention. Freedom has its price as she realizes the sweet life is not so sweet and must race against time to find the true meaning of family and love before Christmas Day.

Now I could see why Sophie wanted a different life in this film. Her daughter are brats and her husband is unemployed. She has a boss that doesn't respect working mothers. I find hard to believe that she would want her old life back!

I highly doubt anybody would like this film.

I have no idea how you can call this a Christmas movie. Yes, for once there is some Christmas fantasy and the santa was well played. But Lea Thompson (and I have no idea why raters were gushing over that) was a train wreck from start to finish, no matter what her situation in life was. This film was tedious, stressful and out and out aweful to the point that it is virtually unwatchable. Do not recommend.