While not really a Christmas movie, this film about life after tragedy found ways to make us cry and warm our hearts. Poorly rated online (5.4 on IMDb), the movie focuses on the isolation felt by a father and daughter years after an accident stole the mothers life, and we eventually get to see a new bond form which was worth way more that a 5.4.
At first, we think the movie is all about the daughter saving the father, as he is sad, alone, overworked and not moving on from his lost wife. Jules decides to sign her father up for dating sites and sets him up on dates, but doesn’t tell him anything. So when seemingly random people start coming up to him, calling him by his name, with sometimes dramatic results, David starts to suspect something is going on with his daughter.
Jules is not as ok as she appears, and while she struggles with her relationship with her dad, she also is struggling with school, her boyfriend, and with missing her mother. Her dad doesn’t see it, her best friend doesn’t get it, and she just doesn’t have an outlet to help her get through it all.
In the end, we see the two of them figure it out and renew their relationship. It was not a Christmas movie, or a romantic comedy, it was a funny, sad and engaging movie that will move you and leave you feeling good, and that is what movies are for.
Feel Good Rating: 7.5
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