Director: Karl Fink, John Dowling Jr.
Writer: P.J. McIlvaine
Producer: John Dowling Jr.
The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s up to the feuding neighbors to save Christmas.
85 min
Rating: 3.3/10
Released
Top Cast
Matt McCoy
Norbert Bridges
Jane Sibbett
Madeline Bridges
Adam Ferrara
Donnie Manning
Carol Alt
Irene Manning
Anthony Mangano
Humphrey
Anne Ramsay
Claudia Walden
Movie Info
Director: Karl Fink, John Dowling Jr.
Writer: P.J. McIlvaine
Producer: John Dowling Jr.
Production Companies: Lions Gate Family Entertainment
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What Others Said
r96sk:
What an odd film.
Literally every inch of this film points to it being deserving of the lowest of ratings. The acting is wooden at best, the title is ill-fitting, the direction is awful and the dialogue is poor. Yet, it kinda works in a weird, basement level sorta way?
I'm not saying it's good, I didn't enjoy it, but once the credits rolled I didn't feel anything negative towards it - which is a surprise, given the aforementioned. It does everything so averagely, that it pretty much levels out to create a poor but not terrible film - at least in my opinion.
I have little to no praise of it though. Some of the humour is alright, I guess. Matt McCoy and Adam Ferrara are the 'picks' of the cast, though that's just down to process of elimination. The (UK - US have a different one?) title is slightly misleading, given only a short snippet of this has anything to do with the banning of Christmas.
Overall, <em>'The Town That Banned Christmas'</em> is all rather poor. I'm just surprised I didn't hate it.