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Karroll's Christmas (2004 TV Movie)
Nice twist on the same old Christmas Carol!
14 December 2004
Tom Everett Scott and a strong supporting cast spice up what could have been just another made for TV three ghost visit movie.

This movie pokes fun at all those Christmas Carol rip-offs and finally points out that sometimes we humans have to take responsibility and solve our own problems.

This one is a true feel good film.

Larry Miller, Alanna Ubach and Verne Troyer are outstanding as the bumbling ghostly trio! I loved the twist on Jacob Marley as well.

Just a fun tongue in cheek look at Charles Dickens' classic!

This one is worth seeing! I just hope it shows up with the Ghost of Christmas future during the next Yule Time Season!
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8/10
Ignore the left wing sermonizing this one is a must see!
10 April 2001
This is a great piece of Hollywood history. Most films from that time frame centered on making the long hair out casts into heroes! Wayne used Hollywood against Hollywood and turned a film with this subject into a money making project. The America people voted with their dollars on this one and the film still has a large following today.

Well acted, and not as over the top as some try to make it out as being. (Surely not as over the top as the movie "Hair"!) Great supporting cast! With Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray and Jack Soo giving outstanding performances. David Janssen does a fair job of playing the reporter who develops a conscience. (I say "fair" not to down grade Janssen's acting ability but because it is hard to believe a reporter could have a conscience or a sense of patriotism!) It is great to see George Takei having a role outside of "Star Trek" and he turns in a great performance as Captain Nim, South Vietnam's version of Wayne.

With its super battle scenes and typical war film dramatics, the movie is easy entertainment. Enough time has passed that its earnest preaching should no longer overshadow its real pleasures. The film was an opportunity to see Wayne in a fresh venue, and for many fans that alone is reason enough to see the film.

Just a great little film that had the nerve to look at both side of the Vietnam question and give the answers that Hollywood didn't want to hear, and he did it while the war was still going on!

In his own words he did this one "for the boys over there, who answered their country's call and their families that have to wait here watching the garbage said about them on TV."

This one is still for the Boys! Enjoy!
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