It's that time of year again, where I watch a boatload of made-for-TV Christmas movies and LOVE them!! Or not. But generally speaking I enjoy them. So I'll watch and review them, just like I did last year. Make sure to read my disclaimer from last year when checking out the grades I assign each one.
Rating: C
Christmas Caper stars Shannen Doherty as a jewel thief who gets caught on a surveillance camera and simultaneously gets asked by her desperate sister to watch her niece and nephew. It's convenient that she needs to hide out and keep a low profile and then gets sent back to her small hometown, isn't it? Of course, this thief wants nothing to do with the kids and decides to take advantage of the Christmas season by having a neighborhood holiday party at her sister's house and then sneaking out to steal everyone's Christmas presents. No one would have ever seen coming that in the end our bad girl isn't so bad after all.
I thought this movie sucked. Shannen Doherty is not that great of an actress and I found it annoying how everyone in her hometown seemed to know her so well yet none of them - including her high school sweetheart boyfriend who is now a cop - seemed to know what she did for a living. Someone would ask! I mean, not that she would tell the truth but there would be some suspicious rumors spread around a small town like this. Plus, we are supposed to believe that the high school boyfriend has been pining away for her for fifteen years or whatever it's been? I love the old 'evildoer turns good because of the season' plotline but this one just didn't do enough to show me why there would be a transformation.
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