There are Christian movies and their are Christmas movies, some good, some bad.
Christmas Grace will never and should never escape church basement showings
before a congregation that I'm not sure thinks people behave as they do in this
film.
I thought for a bit I was going back to the 50s when I remember a small toy store three blocks from my house in Brooklyn on Nostrand Avenue between Avenue J and Avenue K. Stores like the one that Ryan-Iver Klann and Rebekah Cook own haven't existed for decades. And I sure wouldn't think that Tim Kaiser would start a new one. Just days ago chain Toys R Us has just gone out of business.
But there it is. Klann and Cook are a Christian couple that own a small toy store in a small town and one fine day Tim Kaiser comes along and opens another one across the street. He's well financed and also pulls something sneaky and underhanded and the little toy store goes belly up.
But it rebounds in a few months because of an idea Klann has and pretty soon they've got Kaiser on the ropes business wise. Kaiser who's a real Grinch of a human being is really getting his.
What follows is so incredibly off the wall that I was stunned looking at the film. Believe me in real life NO ONE is that generous.
Not even hardcore evangelicals truly believe what happens here in their real lives.
I thought for a bit I was going back to the 50s when I remember a small toy store three blocks from my house in Brooklyn on Nostrand Avenue between Avenue J and Avenue K. Stores like the one that Ryan-Iver Klann and Rebekah Cook own haven't existed for decades. And I sure wouldn't think that Tim Kaiser would start a new one. Just days ago chain Toys R Us has just gone out of business.
But there it is. Klann and Cook are a Christian couple that own a small toy store in a small town and one fine day Tim Kaiser comes along and opens another one across the street. He's well financed and also pulls something sneaky and underhanded and the little toy store goes belly up.
But it rebounds in a few months because of an idea Klann has and pretty soon they've got Kaiser on the ropes business wise. Kaiser who's a real Grinch of a human being is really getting his.
What follows is so incredibly off the wall that I was stunned looking at the film. Believe me in real life NO ONE is that generous.
Not even hardcore evangelicals truly believe what happens here in their real lives.