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The Christmas Blessing by Karen Arthur
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DVD detailsActor: Neal Patrick Harris, Rebecca Gayheart and Angus T. Jones, Rob Lowe Director: Karen Arthur Brand: Gaiam DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 120 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-10-16 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Model: 05-52351 Studio: LIVING ARTS Product features: - Neil Patrick Harris stars in this touching sequel to THE CHRISTMAS SHOES. When a tragic event enters his life, a grown-up Nathan questions everything and decides to give up his career in medicine. But when he goes back home and falls in love he s confronted with an even bigger choice. Will this new crisis help him accept his past and move forward or have him retreat even further into himself? It s
DVD Reviews of The Christmas BlessingDVD Review: So Disappointing If You Read The Book Summary: 1 Stars
After reading the book, this movie is such a disappointment that it isn't staying in my dvd collection. It's one thing to edit a book down to keep the movie within time guidelines, it's another to take a movie and start snipping away characters and plots for the sake of simply making a movie version. Why make a movie version at all if you aren't going to stick with the author's characters and plot lines. By the time all the snipping away of characters and plot lines were done with the book, a person who read the book had to not only take a double look...but a triple and a quadruple. The movie version has so many holes, it looked like swiss cheese. Gone was Nathan's Grandma, gone was his sister Rachel, gone was Megan's parents, gone was Charlie's mother, gone was the fact that Nathan took new red shoes to his Mom's gravesite every year, gone was the fact that Nathan's dad was fixed up with Lydia by his Mother-In-Law (whom he lived with), gone was the lady with the neon cap that Meghan raced with...and her meaning in the story, gone was the fact that Meghan was younger than Nathan...and those are just some of the holes in the swiss cheese. Nor do I remember any bar scenes in the book and I don't believe that it was necessary for that to be put in the movie when there was a wealth about Charlie's Dad from the book that could have been used to identify who he was and what he was feeling.
I am very grateful that I had read the book before I had seen this movie. Otherwise, there is so much story and characters that I would have never known were missing....things than made added into the richness of "The Christmas Blessing" in the book form. This was a cheesy, cheaply remake of a book that deserved so much more. I can hardly believe that the author would sign her work over so that it could get so badly chopped up.
Do yourself a favor. Buy & read the book over wasting money on this dvd...you will be rewarded with a wonderful and meaningful story, as opposed to buying a cheaply made dvd. Usually I donate movies that I don't want to keep to the library for either their use or for their sales to buy new books. This dvd just may go in the trash can instead of the library donation pile.
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Description of The Christmas BlessingNathan Andrews has grown up and is now a medical resident. When the young doctor loses a patient, he begins to rethink his career and moves back home with his father. Just as Nathan is settling in his world begins to crumble when the lives of the woman he loves and an innocent young boy are in crisis. Nathan finds himself questioning God, fate and the fragility of life, all the while hoping for a Christmas Miracle.
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