A Dad for Christmas debuted a few years ago but I hadn't yet seen it. It was average. It's about a college boy who gets his teenage girlfriend pregnant and has delusions of the two of them raising the baby together, but the girlfriend wants to give the baby up for adoption. When the boy is unable to convince her otherwise, he steals the baby and runs away to live with his estranged grandmother. At first there are complications - the grandmother isn't thrilled to have them living there, for instance. Eventually, everyone grows into their roles and the grandmother and the boy decide to sue for custody of the baby. Not a bad story but no better than average. Predictable. Not-so-great acting. Typical happy ending. And, it was only incidentally about Christmas, which drives me insane as a fan of holiday movies. Don't throw in a few scenes of Christmas celebration and call it a holiday movie.
Rating: B-
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