It is absolutely impossible to write a "spoiler" for this movie because it has no plot; it is just a series of unrelated events that happen to the children who are sent out by their mother to scour the countryside for their father who is late coming home from work one Christmas Eve, and that's the extent of it.
Consequently, after about 3/4 of the way through, you begin to wonder, "Where are we going with all this?" What passes for "heartwarming" is that they are struggling poor, and most people feel for poor folk; but you don't need to spend and hour and forty minutes to get that feeling; all one need do is watch the evening news just one night.
When I discussed it with a friend who watched it with me and I said that it has no plot, he said it was a "slice-of-life" story. I guess "slice-of-life" stories don't appeal to me.
Consequently, after about 3/4 of the way through, you begin to wonder, "Where are we going with all this?" What passes for "heartwarming" is that they are struggling poor, and most people feel for poor folk; but you don't need to spend and hour and forty minutes to get that feeling; all one need do is watch the evening news just one night.
When I discussed it with a friend who watched it with me and I said that it has no plot, he said it was a "slice-of-life" story. I guess "slice-of-life" stories don't appeal to me.