A Little Christmas Business from 2013 is a batshit crazy excursion into the fascinating tale of Daniel Baldwin’s self-inflicted career decline. The man clearly needed the money, as this is an odd, mega-cheap variation on the Scrooge formula (urgh) but with an absolutely mental subplot about a child-kidnapper woven in for what seems like no reason at all.
Daniel gives it his all as Don, the prototypical American businessman who (yawn) doesn’t have enough time for his wife and child and so on. On a business trip on Christmas Eve to get important last minute signatures on an important contract, Don suffers an out-of-body experience and everyone he meets in a big, cheaply decorated office building turns out to be an important person from his past. Leslie Easterbrook from Police Academy shows up as a guardian angel-type person who might just be his dead sister (of course she is) and there’s an overwhelmingly naff bit where images appear on a tombstone as though it’s a TV.
The whole film is shoddily made, the plot is painfully obvious and there’s a paperboy in there doing a mad, stereotypical ‘Noo Yoik’ accent that just rubs me up the wrong way for some reason. However, the film transcends its crummy shortcomings to become very watchable due to the sudden inclusion of a crowbar-wielding paedophile for Don to defeat. I’m not sure if I truly understand what’s going on but the film’s closing moments contain enough ‘WTF?!’ bits to make this worth checking out. I’m also glad this one was really short.
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