Wow, this TV movie is 20 years old now, and we mean like today. But first, we before we talk about the movie ,we have to talk about the concept of Christmas everyday stories. It's kind of an interesting idea , what if the the great wonderful Christmas (bias) was the every single day?
One of the earliest examples of this type of story is "Christmas Every Day" William Dean Howells, which you can read here . In the original story a little girl wishes that it was Christmas everyday and it happens , and moral of the story is don't do that. Or for full understanding : That Christmas is a great day but what makes it special is that it's not everyday, that don't do too much of a good thing or it won't be as loved or special anymore.
Now to reference our movie "Christmas Everyday" came out on December 1st 1996, on The Family Channel (which became Fox Family in 1998, became ABC Family in 2001 , now known as Freeform in 2016) it was an original movie for the channel made with Mary Tyler Moore Studios (also at the time owned by Pat Robertson because... that's another story). This movie is not following that story in as much as it follows a popular movie, "Groundhog Day".
Now Our lookback won't be telling the movie's events instead we kind of just parse the plot.
The movie stars Erik Von Detten who you may know from such movies like "Brink" , as a boy named Billy , who is well a movie teenager , (That mean's he's moody alot) For the "GroundHog Day"plot to work , you have to have some establishing of our character and well Christmas. Christmas Day doesn't go well for Billy. His uncle comes to visit and this brings up that he wants to build a mega store, which the small town is against because it would put small merchants out of business, Billy's father also happens to be against it. Billy has a bully or something that is bothering him , and he's also trying to attract this girl he likes. (Because it's a movie with a teenager) When he plays a trick on said bully at the Christmas pageant, this brings up the town getting fired up over the mega store. And other minor events too. Christmas ends with Billy very un happy and getting mad at his sister and she ends up wishing that It was Christmas everyday.
Well guess what happens? The next morning Billy wakes up thinking everything is a trick on him and keeping bringing up that everything he's seeing happened already. The next Christmas he tries to explain to his parents that it keeps being Christmas but they ,of course, think he's sick. (The doctor said it's because he's a teenager ... darn teenagers and their repeating days) So after getting the hang of what's going on , the next Christmas (the 4th one) he's tries to use his new future knowing abilities to his advantage. (Of course why not, I'd do the same?. bow to my power!) That doesn't go well and it ends in more black eyes. (Billy gets punched alot in this movie)
Darn it Billy ,that's not how you apply make up!/Copyright Freeform?
The Last Christmas (he gave you his heart, sorry) didn't go well so the next one (5th) he tires a different approach (it's like a puzzle) he takes things to his advantage and tries to give himself the best Christmas he ever had. He kisses the girl ,defeats the bully, and stole his uncle's car. (Because teenager) Anyway this Christmas (will be... sorry) he talks with his father and learns something (you can tell) . So his new plan is to do nice things for the next Christmas (the 6th one). I am cite some examples of things he did He saved a family from a house fire , finds a girl scout troop in the woods (what?) , gives an old lady free food and stuff, but he's not happy (because teenager) , mostly because he figured out something he can't solve all the world's problems. (he learned an important lesson that day) He over hears his parents talking about how their store would be hurt if the mega store comes to town.
I wonder if the clothes stayed clean or something... also camcorder/copyright Freeform?
So the next Christmas (the 7th one) he does nice things for people with a new Christmas spirit. This is also the end of his Groundhog day of Christmas because he learned his lesson of what Christmas is about.
He also makes this for under his sister's bed/copyright Freeform?
There's a cameo from Santa , who apparently was responsible for this or something and the next morning , Billy Wakes up and finds out that it's not Christmas (nope it's tax day now. pay upt!) anymore.
More after the jump , come with us please.
Now back to our talk about the concept of Christmas Everyday and this movie. The idea of using the Groundhog day formula is a good one, so it's not based on the story we mentioned earlier but more on the 1993 hit movie, just using Christmas. It's a twist on the idea of wishing for Christmas everyday , mostly out of anger to then to have our main character learn a lesson about the holiday.
Our review: If you can find this movie, it's a good watch ( I think Freeform will have on Demand ) , it's predictable in some ways but that's what you want in a Christmas movie. It's a good movie for the family (no pun intended) , doesn't feel to outdated , though you can tell it's the 90's. It has a good Christmas message, with a moral you expect from these things. Though , I am slightly worried about did he save that family from the fire or that girl from the woods on the last Christmas or... ummm (oh my) .
So watch it !
Anyway, we may dip more into the topic of Christmas everyday , with some other specials or movies later on.
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