Un souhait pour Noël

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.

Basically I watched this film just to see how far American idiocy would go and I was not disappointed. The movie is utterly ridiculous not only as a concept but as plot ,acting which is so incredibly weak that the characters come out as caricatures. The directing is not that impressive either . All in all whoever made this film was either high or was simply aware of his target audience which is naive , illiterate Americans. The woman who is supposedly an attorney in typical American fashion can't even speak English properly. At one point she utters "I would have sAng " instead of the correct "sUng". Of course this is such a small matter but indicative of how these people live.

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.

Absolutely shocking film. How people can say otherwise is beyond comprehension. Terrible acting from the one person everyone is claiming was great in this film... She wasn't.

The worst part of this film though is the plot. The wife seems to run around complaining a lot whilst doing a terrible job of parenting (worse than the husband who just tried to get on with things whilst she makes a huge deal out of everything) and somehow were expected to feel sorry for her. The expression woe is me must have been invented for this woman.

To make things worse this was filmed on a potato, even for the time and somehow manages to look dubbed, but isn't.

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.