Even if some of the acting is a little stilted, this movie has my heart. I believe I’ve watched it at least once each year. It’s like a well-read Christmas novella . . . you know what’s going to happen, but you don’t care. You’re invested.
Crystal Carruthers (Acker) is a young woman now in her 30th year who floats through life living on her parents’ money. She has everything–or so she thinks–except true purpose in life. Then, as she window shops along a city street, a letter addressed to Santa drifts into her path. She reads it . . . her holiday and her life turn a corner she never expects.
Olivia is seven-years old. Her mother is deceased. Her father runs both a snow-plowing business, struggles to keep a soup kitchen open (his late wife’s passion), and dates an old flame who merely tolerates Olivia. When Crystal enters the soup kitchen in hopes of learning more about Olivia and her father (Derek), she enters a world she’s known nothing about–poverty, cold, hunger.
Crystal thinks she has followed the address on the letter to save a little girl and her father, but–in the end–they save her.
Bookstore: No, but there is a soup kitchen! 🙂
Hot chocolate/cocoa: Possibly. I know they’re drinking something at the skating rink . . . and there is eggnog.
Bakery: I don’t remember a bakery . . . but there is pizza.
Cute kid or pet: Yes! Olivia is adorable.
Ornament Rating: Four out of five shiny red ornaments!
I watched Dear Santa on Amazon Prime. You can watch the trailer HERE.
Wishing it was a different actor in this one but a good one 👍