Rating: A
A Christmas Visitor is from 2002 but I'd never seen it so I decided to add to my archive. I'm glad I did. It was a good movie. It stars William Devane and Meredith Baxter-Birney as a couple who have not celebrated Christmas since their son passed away in the Gulf War ten years ago. When their daughter (who apparently lived most of her life not celebrating Christmas) has a cancer scare, the Dad decides to start celebrating the holiday again. The small town where they live are pleasantly shocked - it's apparently common knowledge that this family has boycotted the holiday all these years. The Dad runs into a stranger who claims to have been in the Gulf War, too, from the same company as his son, and they hit it off and Dad takes him home and he helps all of the family members by claiming that he knew the son, because the Dad asks him to lie. Anyway, it's got some mysticism, as well as Christmas cheer and redemption or reconciliation. Plus, it's well acted. You really can't ask for more in a Christmas movie, in my opinion.
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