Rating: A-
Home by Christmas starts off cheerily enough, ha! Linda Hamilton plays Julie, a wealthy housewife who finds out her husband of twenty years is cheating on her. They divorce and she accepts a settlement of $25,000, a car and some odds and ends for their daughter. And apparently she thinks she can survive on that. Well, she has to move into a 1-bedroom apartment in a questionable area of town, has trouble finding a job and soon her daughter has moved back in with the dad. Then, Julie is mugged and things go from bad to worse as she is evicted, broke, alone and homeless! Thanks to some incredibly generous and giving people she meets along the way, Julie rebuilds her life and lives happily ever after. Basically. Although I question the rapidity in which everything happens (the whole entire story basically takes place within a couple of months, it seems, and I'm not sure you can even get a divorce to go through that quickly, let alone some of the other things that happen), it is a sweet story and you can't help but like Julie. Also, it sure is a great marketing campaign for free and cheap things like women's shelters, the library, post office boxes and stairwells in really tall buildings.
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