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A Family Favorite Set for the Holidays
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a movie that will live long in your hearts with the comic relief and the wonderful message the movie sends. Jonathan Taylor Thomas stars as Jake Wilkinson, a self-centered, scheming, New Yorker going to college in California. Jake's father has promised him a the family Porche if he can get home in time for Christmas dinner. Jake has everything planned out: two cozy plane tickets for him and his girlfriend, Allie (played by Jessica Biel). But then Jake finds himself pennilessly stranded in the Californian desert wearing a Santa suit with a hat glued to his head and a beard to his chin. Now Jake must befriend who ever he comes across in order to make his way east. From old ladies to a shopliffter, Jake is in for the sleigh ride off his life. Will Jake get home to New York in time to get his car or will he be stranded in the middle of nowhere for Christmas? The answer to Jake's problems lies within your hands: to buy, rent, or borrow "I'll Be Home For Christmas".

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A Christmas Favorite!
In 1998, movie makers came out with another Christmas classic and it was phenomenal. Johnathan Taylor Thomas played an excellent role in this film as the teenage Santa Claus. The movie is funny, hilarious and full of holiday fun. Your Christmas collection isn't complete without this.

The movie starts out in California at college where we meet Jake (Thomas) who is planning a vacation on the beach with his girlfriend (Jessica Biel) instead of going home like she wants to. So when Jake calls his family and tells him he's not planning on coming home, his father (Gary Cole) bribes him to come home. He promises Jake if he comes home, he can have the Porsche his father restored. Now he's going home! The problem is, his college rivals play a prank on him and leave him stranded in the desert with nothing and wearing a Santa costume.

So to get home, he hitches a ride with a theif who almost killed him with his van while Jake was walking on the side of the road. Then he comes accross a cop who asks Jake for help in getting his wife back. Jake does it because the cop promises to give him a bus ticket home if he succeeds. It's hilarious how Jake does it. Then, while at the bus station, Jake sees on TV his girlfriend with Eddie, who stranded him in the desert. "I'll kill him!" So he chases down Eddie and then ends up stranded again. So he enters a Santa Claus race and the winner gets money. Of course Jake wins because he's competing against old fats guys.

I'll let you see the rest. How will he find a way to get home? "I'll Be Home For Christmas" is a holiday classic. Johnathan Taylor Thomas played the best role of his career to date in this movie. He was funny and hilarious. The movie really gets you into the holiday spirit. It always worked for me and it will work for you. Merry Christmas!

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An Annual Christmas Treat
I'll Be Home for Christmas has joined our family's stack of videos to watch every Christmas, along with White Christmas, Pee Wee's Christmas Special, the Good Neighbors Christmas Show, and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

The cross-country trip with a deadline and a host of offbeat characters along the way is a time-honored and successful formula. Although I was afraid Jonathan Taylor-Thomas's Jake would be too smarmy and smug to be a character you could root for, he manages to take the edge off just enough so that we are pulling for him to make it.

The grannies going to Vegas to see Tom Jones ("Santa yammied in my purse!"), the state trooper and his cow-eared waitress at the Turf 'n' Turf steakhouse, even the bouncing Santa head during the credits -- easy to take Christmas fun.