A trashy woman who has recovered from an illness redeems herself with help from a magic friend called Tom. Who is Tom? It turns out that last Christmas .... you'll have to watch it.
I had never seen Emilia Clarke before, apparently she was in Game of Thrones. Emma Thompson of the Thompson Twins plays her mother, hamming it up somewhat as a Yugoslavian immigrant.
The lead actress Emilia wears really heavy, dark eye shadow which doesn't seem to suit her, around half way through the film she changes to a lighter shade which looks so much better.
There is some kind of subplot about the Michelle Yeoh character who owns a Christmas trinkets shop and gets a boyfriend who loves sauerkraut. It's a bit lame. Yeoh was great in those Hong Kong movies from the 1980s, I wish she would just kick the sauerkraut guy or something.
Actor Henry Golding who plays Tom is quite OK and charming in this.
I thought it was a bit patronising about homeless people.
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