is a 2023 American Christmas romantic comedy film directed by Mary Lambert and written by Todd Gallicano and Charles Shyer (his final credit before his passing in 2024).
Jackie's annual Christmas letter, detailing her family's extraordinary achievements, incites envy and skepticism in Charlotte.
When Grant, misunderstanding his mother's sarcasm, navigates the family to the Jennings' home for Christmas rather than her sister Stacy's as planned, they spend the night as it is very late.
After an outing to get a Christmas tree, Charlotte finds a letter addressed to Jackie from Rob and her suspicions of them increases, as they once dated.
Then, they go together to a bank downtown, where 10-year-old Beatrix helps Charlotte get a low, fixed interest rate for Rob's dream house.
Before she gets back on track, she encounters Jackie's friend Rose, who thanks her for spending the holidays with the Jennings, as this time of the year is very difficult for them.
Jackie follows her and explains what happened to Daniel, telling her she created the foundation to keep his memory alive and help her family pull through the tragedy.
As a tribute to her late son Jackie worked with Rose, also from the aviation company she pre-retired from, to design the first-ever solar-powered hot air balloon.
She put the North Star on its side that lights up to fly it by the Christmas pageant spectacle, making Daniel a part of it.
[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 34 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.
[5] Variety wrote "Its absurdist lunacy acts as a Trojan Horse containing genuinely meaningful sentiments on forgiveness, happiness and bittersweet sorrows — universalities people tend to reflect on as their year comes to a close".