Watched as 'Dealing With Christmas' on Prime Video
Finding this has been a true joy! It's funny, clever, and a great story. That it's French cannot be held against it(!), and actually is the reason it works so well. The facial hair, makeup and costumes support the story, with the physicality of the humour delivering genuine laughs, clever hooks, and sackfuls of Christmas cheer. What makes it even more of an achievement is that it's a body swap story at its core, but with some truly bizarre, tongue-in-cheek twists that are great despite their level of predictability. It'll be a yearly Festive Season viewing from hereon in!
Dealing with Christmas
2023 [FRENCH]
Action / Comedy / Fantasy
Plot summary
On Christmas Eve, Greg, a solitary and taciturn police officer, doesn't hesitate to leave his daughter behind to go on a mission. To teach him a lesson, Santa Claus decides to grant his daughter's wish: that her father looks like Richard Silestone, the good-natured and heavily indebted family man from the beloved Christmas movie she adores. While Greg is sent into this improbable world, Richard accidentally lands in the real world and both men realize they have no choice but to complete each other's missions to reclaim their respective lives.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
December 08, 2023 at 03:19 AM
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A great comedy for Christmas ?
Perfect balance between action, humour and Christmas kindness :-) This movie happened in France with a Policeman passionate by his job and less by his family. On the other side of the TV, and in US, a perfect Christmas movie story with a family struggle by money but with a Dad passionate by his family and Christmas spirit! Everything goes upsidedown when Santa Claus decided to give a lesson to the cop and by mistake transferred the men on each other body. Looks like déjà vu but seeing the good guy dealing with drug dealers in Paris' suburbs and the tough cop with dancing on ice is really hilarious ?