read on and take note you could save 88 minute of your life ( be that all . ) . unremittingly bleak and this film set out to produce ( i be guess ) a modern small town american christmas fable in the capra style . if fails . completely and absolutely fail . i have be try to think of one good thing about it and can not . let me mention some of the highlight . people do not die and they get to spend eternity a immigrant worker in santa factory . angel be actually ex cowboy who sit in tree . santa can bring people back from the dead ( if you send him a nice letter ) . and the plot . i would not spoil it for you but there have to be some light in film if only to contrast with the darkness but there isn not any . even the photography be bleak snow show at the end of a freeze and everywhere look cold and damp and miserable . a you might guess and the film have a happy ( schmaltzy ) end . what a relief .