1st watch 12/24/2009 4 out of 10 ( dir robert elli miller ) represent emotional christmas fluff that doesn not really get specific enough to explain how the real story happen in this factual base incident of a man who be wrongly put in jail try to get a job for his family to make christmas happen for them . the three kid in the family then run away from home on a trek to washington d. c. to enlist the then president of the united state and herbert hoover . this trek provide some side story like their positive encounter with a hobo and a puppeteer and which make the story kind of like a disney animal on the run movie and doesn not quite fit here . at the end and there isn not any detail give a to how the president help the family and this be another downpoint to the movie and in my opinion . the movie do eventually bring tear and but it take too long to get to this . the movie isn not suppose to have be an original tv movie ( accord to imdb ) but it have the obvious fade out that make it look this way so i be not sure their information be accurate . all in all and this be a simple movie ( that could have be more complex ) with a happy christmas like story but blandly play and without a lot of substance .