I like Lea Thompson. I actually fell in love with her in the "Back to the Future" movies. Unfortunately she married someone else and missed out on me when I became single in the late 1980s. Her loss.
Here she is a harried mother of 3, and also a successful lawyer with an aggressive law firm. That in itself made it hard for her to spend quality time with her children and their activities.
She makes a wish for some rest, and it is granted. In fact she finds herself single, none of her children had been born, and her husband is about to marry someone else.
After dealing with those developments, Santa Clause shows up and, even though she thought she had missed the deadline to make things right, Santa was still on Las Vegas time, so she wished for her life back, and got it. It was an awakening, and she promised to do it better the next time. One of her first actions was to resign from the law firm.
This theme has been done in other movies, it is not novel. Nic Cage, in "The Family Man", for example, which is a better movie. But those of us who are Lea Thompson fans, it is a good diversion.
I saw it on the ION TV network.
Here she is a harried mother of 3, and also a successful lawyer with an aggressive law firm. That in itself made it hard for her to spend quality time with her children and their activities.
She makes a wish for some rest, and it is granted. In fact she finds herself single, none of her children had been born, and her husband is about to marry someone else.
After dealing with those developments, Santa Clause shows up and, even though she thought she had missed the deadline to make things right, Santa was still on Las Vegas time, so she wished for her life back, and got it. It was an awakening, and she promised to do it better the next time. One of her first actions was to resign from the law firm.
This theme has been done in other movies, it is not novel. Nic Cage, in "The Family Man", for example, which is a better movie. But those of us who are Lea Thompson fans, it is a good diversion.
I saw it on the ION TV network.