Christmas on Chestnut Street

This is a fun (and funny) Christmas TV movie. There are not a ton of comedy Christmas films out there (tons of rom-coms but those Hallmark type movies are way more drama than comedy in my opinion) but this was a pretty good one. I'm surprised there is not more love out there for this little TV movie, it's charming!

If the boring plot and bad acting isn't bad enough. The poor camera work is. It is always visible that the camera man is walking and at one point even trips up. The story is boring and dull and there is no exciting twists or turns throughout the film. It is advertised as a family comedy but i did not once laugh. The music played in the background whilst the characters are speaking does not match at all which gets annoying. The actors are poor and do not work well with the story. This is by far the worst film to watch on Christmas with the family, you will be bored and wish you had watched something else, like Santa Claus. I hope you have found this advise useful and that you choose to use it.

Can't believe that out of 50,000 so few have voted on this 2006 TV movie. A year later and it did not have enough votes to post a rating. It is SO enjoyable. It may not be a 10, but it's certainly a worthwhile movie to enrich the spirit of the season. With so much else going on in the world, this is a nice way to be reminded of how things can be. If we could only get this spirit to spread and bring out more of the good in people. And remind us how good that feels and how easy it is to do. Even when things don't agree with you, or you don't like something, it reminds us how easy it can be to forgive or to forget, or to just be less hostile and less 'quick to judge'. And I especially liked how the story included the dad with Alzheimer's. Very thoughtful. So, come on and give it some love back. Enjoy it and vote.

Please be aware if you have small kids that this middling background noise worthy TV movie asserts the ridiculous notion that there is absolutely no such thing as Santa Claus. Besides that, it's fairly typical for its genre.

OK, we don't have an Oscar-winner here, we don't even have a strikingly original plot, but what we do have is a funny and heartily enjoyable Christmas film. It's visually pleasing with the usual Chicago-at-Christmas pretty street scenes and the acting is bang on. If you've ever watched a Christmas movie before, or for that matter any rom-com then you're going to see the plot turns coming a mile off - but does that matter? Not one jot! You're not going to get stark warnings about future catastrophes, or high-octane action scenes either, but if you want that, you're unlikely to be looking in this direction! What "Christmas on Chestnut Street" does provide, and in buckets too, is a charming story, genuinely likable characters you actually care about, and a gently sentimental message about the true meaning of the holiday season. And what more do you want from your Christmas movie than that?