This One Will Be a Christmas Classic

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2004)

So there we were all in a row, the whole family, waiting to view our 2004 Thanksgiving movie (when the gang gets together each year, we all go out together to a movie). We were surrounded by families and little kids, and the previews were for little kids. The youngest of our 'little kids' were the 18 year old twins! So I'm thinking, "uh oh....but we like anything Tom Hanks does so let's wait and see." By the end of the movie I had been swept away, thoroughly enjoyed myself, tasted the beauty of redemption and hope, and thought to myself "I could watch that again, right now, and certainly each Christmas." Put it on the top shelf with It's a Wonderful Life. And, remember, that movie got panned by the critics at first, too.