"Home for Christmas" is a bad film because it is filled with cliches, ridiculous improbabilities and it's oozing with schmaltz. Still, the actors try their best and the film is watchable provided you don't expect much.
A workaholic dad (the only type you see in made for TV Christmas films) sees a homeless guy (Mickey Rooney) stealing from his car as he leaves work. He gives chase but the homeless guy gets away.
Shortly afterwards, the workaholic's wife meets this same hobo in the park. She's a newspaper writer and wants to do a piece on homeless folks over the holidays.
When the hubby sees his wife with the homeless guy, he immediately recognizes him as the thief. But instead of calling the cops, his family convince him to bring him home and have him work off what he stole.
This is ridiculously improbable but what eventually happens goes WAY beyond improbable. Over time, the hobo realizes the man he stole from is the son he never knew he had...and by the end everything is right in their world. Oh, and did I mention the excruciating scene near the end when the workaholic's mother arrives as a ghost to talk to her hobo ex-lover?! Uggh!
If you turn off your brain, you can enjoy this film. However, the reviewer that gave this a 1 is hard to understand. Yes, it's bad...but it's high quality bad. And, the 10...well, that's much tougher to understand...especially as MOST Christmas movies are better than this one!
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