One Magic Christmas (1985)

★ 5.9 1h 28m 116 votes IMDb
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Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.

One Magic Christmas

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Cast

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen as Ginny Grainger Age 73 · Newport, Arkansas, USA Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acti...
Gary Basaraba
Gary Basaraba as Jack Grainger Age 67 · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gary Basaraba (born March 16, 1959) is a Canadian actor best known for playing American police officers. He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco...
Elisabeth Harnois
Elisabeth Harnois as Abbie Grainger Age 46 · Detroit, Michigan, USA Elisabeth Harnois (born May 26, 1979) is an American television and film actress..
Arthur Hill
Arthur Hill as Caleb Grainger Died 2006 · Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Arthur Edward Spence Hill (August 1, 1922 – October 22, 2006) was a Canadian actor best known for appearances in British and American theater, movies and tel...
Wayne Robson
Wayne Robson as Harry Dickens Died 2011 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Wayne Robson (April 29, 1946 – April 4, 2011) was a Canadian television, stage, voice and film actor known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-convict and sometime thief, on the Canadian sitcom...
Jan Rubeš
Jan Rubeš as Santa Claus Died 2009 · Volyně, Czechoslovakia Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM (6 June 1920 – 29 June 2009) was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor. Born in Czechoslovakia, he graduated in 1945 from the Conservatory of Music in Prague. Rubes went o...

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r96sk 5/10 Sep 17, 2020
Absolutely bizarre.

What is the meaning of this film? Don't get me wrong, there is a positive one in there - somewhere, I think - but the core one is dodgy. I won't go into detail as I don't want to spoil anything, though in short the film is about a mother who has lost all belief in Christmas. A standard festive premise, yet this does it with a major twist. It doesn't land with me at all, it's basically a form of blackmail by the end which is wild!

Mary Steenburgen portrays mother Ginny fairly well, given the plot troubles. Ginny is incredibly, pretty much, the villain of the production, for no real reason other than disliking the current period for logical reasons. Elsewhere on the cast, you have notable roles for Harry Dean Stanton (Gideon) and Elisabeth Harnois (Abbie). Stanton, himself, is alright.

The film actually builds up nicely, before the already mentioned capitulation with the story occurs. <em>'One Magic Christmas'</em> is extremely odd!

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