An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from ... Read allAn examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of... Read allAn examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in Ameri... Read all
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PLEASE BEWARE OF SOME REVIEWERS THAT ONLY HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE NO AGENDA! I REVIEW MOVIES & SPECIALS AS A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN! I HAVE DISCOVERED MANY GEMS IN MY QUEST TO SEE AS MANY " C H R I S T M A S " MOVIES AS I CAN.
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This film has a message but it is lost with this mans screaming and grand standing. What isn't covered in this is that there are many people like myself that don't overspend and love the Christmas Season. To me "Christmas Season" is my football season. "Christmas" helps me get through the rest of the year. Christmas is a time of living (for me) guilt free.
The Rev. Billy Tallen and his Stop Shopping Choir embark on a cross-country crusade against the commercialization of Christmas is a good cause but isn't this film also made "To Make Money" and to spread the Billy Tallen's message?
Now many people in the USA are not Church Goers but love Christmas. Christmas brings many people together and that is worth celebrating.
Yes Americans overspend but they don't just overspend at Christmas. That is another point that is overlooked!
It would have also helped if the Rev do not look like Heat Miser from "The Year without a Santa Claus"
While many of the points are made by examining the sermons of the dubiously respectable self-styled "Reverend Billy" and his Church of Stop Shopping, which often makes for laughs, to say it is a comedy does not do it justice. This is a true documentary about a true phenomenon in America and a political organization that seeks to challenge it.
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- GoofsThe Safeway (about 40 minutes into the film) identified as Oakland, is in fact in Berkeley.
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- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $200,010
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,527
- Nov 18, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $200,010
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