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Reviewed by Jackbv123 5 / 10

OK film but not one you'd watch again

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

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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.

Gift of the Magi

2010

Drama / Romance

Gift of the Magi

2010

Drama / Romance

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OK film but not one you'd watch again

A tale about Christmas gifts from the heart

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