Review of I'll Be Home for Christmas

Well I enjoyed this, unlike the last Christmas movie I tried to watch and couldn't stand any more after ten minutes! I don't usually like precocious children in movies either but this girl was great. As some others have said she spoke in quite an adult way but she did so with conviction and wasn't just parroting her lines. The relationship with her 'Grandpa Grinch' was nice and unforced. Her mother was rather more annoying and hard to take to. She was the humourless workaholic with a schedule, so beloved of Christmas movies, just waiting for a nice young chap to make her see the error of her ways. A little cliched but fine so far. What was a lot harder to believe was that she had a friend who actually wanted to bother with her because she did nothing but moan and was 'me me me' every time they met! I loved the dog, but then that's the kind of dog I always wanted so I may be biased (although mine would be far better trained!). When he messed up the house I was worried we were going to have a heartrending dying dog scenario to bring everyone together because he was eating the fruit basket which included grapes which are poisonous to dogs, but clearly the director was unaware of that fact! Anyway, predictable but sweet ending. I'm not crying, it's the onions - honest!