The ups and downs of life at a parochial school for 10-year-old Felix as the Christmas nativity pageant approaches.The ups and downs of life at a parochial school for 10-year-old Felix as the Christmas nativity pageant approaches.The ups and downs of life at a parochial school for 10-year-old Felix as the Christmas nativity pageant approaches.
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Very warm and well presented family entertainment
A very loving Christmas story, well directed and played by a fine cast. The lead character is especially enjoyable, as such a story demands, and there is not the usual Hollywood overplay on bad versus good characters. Everyone has their own personality as people do, neither dastardly nor saintly, just people/kids. My wife and her sister watched it with me, we are TCM and movie fans in general. All three of us thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I did, by the way, experience many Catholic Christmas school plays as a child. Our parish priest was not a heavy drinker, he smoked a cigar, some of the nuns were certainly way out there, and the kids mostly looked at the old round clock waiting for 3pm. Lay teachers were uncommon but I had one in 4th grade, not as colorful as Molly Ringwald, but just as devoted.
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- clancyrts
- Dec 7, 2014
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