Ah, I thought this was gonna be the better-known 1998 Jonathan Taylor Thomas movie so, nice surprise, uh, kinda … Basically this is my third Christmas movie of the month and I really hope that ends the streak of disappointments, lol … I’m glad I got them out of the way first, I guess. This is just another Christmas TV movie by the numbers. It has its moments, it has Jack Palance … Ann Jillian is quite infectiously impish as the romantic interest. But nothing special.

It’s actually perilously close to a, “Dammit, man, you’re a doctor!” moment towards the end and when the doctor in question is the guy who brought the plane down in Airplane!, well, it’s harder to keep a straight face than it ever has been in TV melodrama. I kept waiting for the screen to dissolve and go into a flashback, lol. I think perhaps it might’ve been better if this had been the Jonathan Taylor Thomas movie afterall …