I watched this movie because LukeWard-Wilkinson, the kid who plays Simon in Beautiful People, is in it. Tom Berenger plays grumpy old Jonathan Toomey, and Luke plays Thomas McDowell, the new kid in town who just wants to fit in. Luke does a nice job with the accent and all, but the movie has a very weird feel to it. Everything looks so artificial, like when two people in the forest throw shadows in completely different directions. Anyway, the story is somewhat predictable, as is the outcome, but what the heck. The end of Titanic was predictable too, yet it still worked as a movie. If you take The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey for what it is then you won’t be disappointed. It’s a charming and at times heartwarming tale of a grumpy old man and a young boy and at the end of the year it’s Christmas and everyone’s happy. There are worse ways of spending a rainy pre-Christmas Sunday afternoon than watching this.
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