Almost Christmas

 

          Getting more into the Christmas spirit, I decided to dig deeper through some movies I've watched during the good old days of cable TV. And some of these movies are right on Peacock, especially an underappreciative Christmas movie that holds a great understanding of being with family no matter how dysfunctional your families are now. Danny Glover takes the leading role along with Mo'Nique, along with Gabrelle Union (Nebraska native), Omar Epps and Jessie T. Usher aka A-Train from The Boys, for which shows you when it comes to acting alongside a legend like Danny Glover you'll gain great success.

           Walter Meyer (Danny Glover) is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life one year earlier. Now that the holiday season is here, he invites daughters Cheryl (Kimberly Else), Rachel (Gabrielle Union) and sons Christian (Romany Malco) and Evan (Jessie T. Usher) to his house for a traditional celebration. Poor Walter soon realizes that if his bickering children and the rest of the family can spend five days together under the same roof, it would be a truly Christmas miracle. 

           This film is close to ten years old, and I remember seeing this for the first time on the internet and I begin to think to myself that "okay this is of course one of these movies that make me realize why I'm not a big fan of family Christmas films", Furthermore didn't see this film in the theater just because it reminds me of my family being dysfunctional as well as bickering with my brother and sister. Though through the years of cable TV when this movie at the time, the film arrived when I could watch it (granted parts of it), I slowly begin to see that there's something more to this movie than reliving the monstrosity that is films like Christmas Vacation. Many great examples both family members have their own personal grief that they're personally trying to deal with, furthermore they all have their own personal feuds that through the course of the movie they each make amends as well as important subplots that have closure by the end of the movie. Most importantly what makes this film great, is that Danny Glover playing the Dad in the movie which brings great warmth as well as getting tired of his kids fighting for which you can relate to that along the journey him and his family have but more importantly you understand things that mean a lot to him but also having to deal with the loss of his own wife. Mo'Nique even does a great job in the film as the comic relief as well and she does in the best way that gives you a laugh but more importantly has great chemistry with Danny Glover in terms of relating to each other as well as standing up for one another. The sister dynamic between Gabrielle Union and Kimberly Elise are excellent, as well as being able to relate to them in terms of reminiscing to the many times I've argued with my sister and with this I relate to Union the most because I'm the youngest out of my brother and sister, moreover it's a great sense of relating to your own siblings and the most important you also have a sense of closure as well as forgiveness that you never get when it comes to Yellowstone. I would highly recommend watching Almost Christmas, especially if you have a Peacock account, furthermore I relate to this family Christmas movie more than Christmas Vacation for many GOOD reasons, this film at least have some comedic value that's actually funny than Chevy Chase never learning a lesson as well as not understanding the aspect of never trusting you’re a**hole of a boss. More importantly and this shows why it's better than Christmas Vacation, it as the Christmas chaos that you can relate to and at least has that sense of believing this family members can make amends as well as the hope to love one another by end of the film. Hands down I would defiantly put this in my top ten best Christmas movies of all time.