Not to be confused with the movie of the same name starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr., this Home for the Holidays is a made-for-TV holiday film starring Sean Young. And, she is mighty mighty distracting. Whether her hair is a wig or not, how she is such a bad actress, why she is wearing so much eye makeup all the time - these are the questions you can't stop asking yourself while you are watching this movie. And, it's too bad because in general it's not a bad story.
The movie's plot is that three young children lose their parents in a car accident and their aunt (Sean Young) steps up to take care of them. The youngest boy is so traumatized he won't speak. The parents mortgaged their farm to the hilt, leaving their home in jeopardy. The aunt barely makes ends meet on her own with only a part-time job in the local antiques store (more distracting questions arise from that!). Finally, the aunt gets the idea to move the farmhouse off the farm so the kids can keep their childhood home and the whole city pitches in to help them move it. It's a sweet story, honestly. Plus, another saving grace in the film is the social worker, who in a side story, becomes way too involved in this case that she gets yelled at by her supervisor all the time.
Overall, it's getting a higher grade than it probably deserves because the major downfall is the casting of Sean Young.
Rating: B
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