Gift of the Magi

2010

Drama / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 21%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21%
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 573 573

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Plot summary

A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.

Director

Lisa Mulcahy Photo
Lisa Mulcahy

Top cast

Mark Webber Photo
Mark Webber as Jim Young
Marla Sokoloff Photo
Marla Sokoloff as Della Young
Roisin Kiely Photo
Roisin Kiely as Cinema Couple
Orla Tobin Photo
Orla Tobin as Stephanie
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785.28 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 6
1.57 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SimonJack 6 / 10

A tale about Christmas gifts from the heart

"Gift of the Magi" departs from the usual holiday film fare in a couple of ways. First, it's not about boy meets girl, but mainly about a young couple who just got married and are very much in love. They both work - she in customer service for a cleaning products company, and he as a bartender. Della and Jim have a mutual male friend and female friend whom they would like to get together. The guy has a seven-year-old son, and these three provide some light humor in the story.As others have noted, this is a version of the 1905 O. Henry story, "The Gift of the Magi." And the sacrifices by the young couple make the best aspect of this story. Della and Jim each go out of their way to get a special gift this Christmas. It's something their spouse really wants more than anything - but would not expect to receive as a gift. In the process, some things get fouled up for a while, but their unselfishness brings about a happy reconciliation.Marla Sokoloff carries the film with her bubbly, yet common sense personality as Della. This is just a different enough story that most people should enjoy it as a movie for the holidays. More than a dozen adaptations of the O. Henry story have been put on film. This modern version has some extra twists.Here are some favorite lines from this film.Della Young, "And Ian - he's fantastic. He would treat you so well." Jessie, "There's that too. He's too nice." Della, "Oh, Don't be that, girl." Jessie, "No, but he is. He, he's so helpful, so nice that there's no, there's no mystery. There's no excitement." Della, "Okay. Well, you know you could just continue dating those immature jerks who have bad hygiene and even worse manners."Mitch, "Look, you get any sweeter on that wife of yours, you're gonna get cavities."Jim Young, "You know you're not going to get them together just by putting them in the same room together." Della Young, "Well, I'm not gonna get them together unless they're in the same room together."Jessie, "It's like accusing Mother Teresa of stealing your wallet."
Reviewed by boblipton 5 / 10

Already Have It

O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the two best-known secular Christmas stories -- the other is, of course, Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". It is also much harder to translate to a screen feature, since O. Henry specialized in short stories with 'snapper' endings -- usually sardonic jokes on their protagonists.This TV movie makes a fair try at filling up the spaces by updating the story -- modern urban women no longer sell their hair to wig makers, and certainly not to buy fobs for their husbands' pocket watches, since men mostly don't use pocket watches these days.But the poor we always have with us, so this story is about a husband who wants to buy a good lens for his wife's beloved heirloom camera while she wants to buy an original steering wheel for the vintage car he is restoring -- these stand in for the original gifts. And the leads, Marla Sokoloff and Mark Webber, are handsome and loving.But the story telling soon gets lost in a maze of secondary characters who are used to fill up the time, and while Ms. Sokoloff continues as earnest throughout, Webber turns into an inconsiderate boor by the time the story is heading towards the lap.Over all, it's a good effort, and the casting and direction are good, but the script needs a bit of work and focus, making this simply watchable. A pity.
Reviewed by Prismark10 4 / 10

Secret gifts

The Gift of the Magi is a short story about a young married couple with not much money and how they deal with buying secret Christmas gifts for each other.The television film has been updated and expanded. Della (Marla Sokoloff) and Jim (Mark Webber) are newlyweds and desperately in love with a close circle of friends and do their best to help each other out in their working class community.The couple are financially stretched after a theft and although promising each other not to buy Christmas presents, Della wants to buy a steering wheel for his classic car that he is restoring and takes a part time job to earn enough money for the gift but does not tell her husband.Jim is saving money to buy Della a lens for her Nikon camera but he is suspicious of her spending time away from him on that secret part time job and then sees her with another man (her boss at the second job) and he leaves her.As Christmas approaches, their friends hatch a plan to get them back together when they realise what has actually happened.This is a rather saccharine family film with many sweet natured characters. The working class setting is non existent but the film has enough substance to make it watchable.
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