The movie: Firehouse Christmas aka A Christmas Hero.
I am usually very tolerant of the staple Christmas tradition and schmaltz that is associated with this type of movie. It is predictable, somewhat comforting and usually fun. That being said, I just can't do stupid.
1. The guy, Tom Norris, played by Marcus Rosner, is in his toy store shirtless with a towel around his neck, does he live in his toystore? And even if he lived above his store, who goes out on the salesfloor shirtless even when the store is closed.
2. The guy (same as above) climbs onto the roof of his ex-father-in-laws house, and tries to go down the chimney to deliver Christmas to his daughter, and he gets stuck. So firefighter Jenny, played by Annda Hutchinson, has to come over and unstick him.
3. Ex figure skating, Mary, played by Anita Brown, turned relationship book author, gets into a fight with the Mall Santa when he won't come back early from his break to accomodate her schedule and he won't let her skip ahead of the children standing line. Santa starts to choke and firefighter Jenny saves him.
4. Over-bearing, car dealer father James, played by Bruce Dawson, miraculously sees the light and changes his over-bearing ways.
5. The guy, again Tom Norrris. His ring tone!! A male voice singing "There's a call, there's a call, there's a call for you" annoying and stupid in the extreme.
And that is just 5 of the plot points that were stupid and unbelievable.
This started out as a pretty good premise for a movie but the writers, director and producers really dropped the ball.
The LIttle girl, Sadie. Played by Jaeda Lily Miller, was the only bright light in a extremely dim movie. She seems to be the only member of the famly with any common sense.
I have seen Marcus Rosner in two other movies and he was pretty good, and I think he has the cacacity to do a much better job if he only had a better script to work with. Marcus, do you really want this movie on your resume?
My advice - put this movie at the very top of your don't watch this movie list.
