Melissa Joan Hart Movie:

		List Price: $6.99		Label: Platinum Disc Salesrank: 6287 Released: January 11, 2005
		Our Price: $3.14
		Used Price: $4.73
		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 02/28/2006 Run time: 48 minutes

Christmas Snow Reviews:
Not the best!
2009-01-12 - I love Christmas but this movie will be one that I watch once. Not a very good movie at all.

Made for children TV movie
2008-11-29 - I found this DVD at Kmart for $3. It came with a dvd of Christmas music. I figured for the price I would take a chance.
It was a made for TV movie from 1986 based on the novelette "London Snow". It stars Katherine Helmond, veteran actor Sid Caesar, a very young Melissa Joan Hart, and Kimble Joyner. It won an Emmy in 1987 for cinematography and an ASC award in 1988. It's only 48 minutes long.

It seems to be set in the 1950's. Mrs Mutterance (Helmond)is a widow who runs a candy shop in the lower level of a building where she lives on the 2nd floor with her 2 adopted children (Joyner and Hart). Her mean spirited Landlord, Mr Snyder(Caesar)tells her she has two weeks to vacate the building 2 days before Christmas. After a blizzard, Mr. Snyder turns up missing. Mrs. Mutterance and children go looking for him. The moral of the story is helping others even when they are not nice to you.

Melissa Joan Hart is very cute in this movie and I thought all of the actors were good, but I thought this presentation fell short of a holiday classic. I think it is a better production than the made for tv movies are today. Not as silly and shallow. Well worth the $3 I paid for it. This is the 2nd year I watched it.


REVIEW BY REBA
2007-10-25 - I WAS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN THE LENGTH OF THE MOVIE. IT WAS OVER ALMOST BEFORE THE MOVIE GOT STARTED INTO THE PLOT. I DO THINK THAT CHILDREN WILL LIKE IT THOUGH.

Think the worst and you'll be half right
2007-02-16 - This "movie" is only 48 minutes long. Made in 1986, it was obviously a one-TV-hour show. See it only if you're a fan of one of the performers.

This gets my vote for the worst Christmas movie ever made and one of the worst movies ever made. The acting by Katherine Helmond is the phoniest I remember ever seeing. It's astounding to watch, it's so bad. You just keep gaping: how can anybody be that bad?

The little girl, Melissa Hart, is very cute. I hope she got the parts she deserves.

The story is the length of a short-short, so there's a lot of treading water in this show. The gratuitous nastiness to the woman customer who had traveled all the way across town in the snow was stunning. The fact that the little girl did not tell her adoptive mother about the footprints after they'd all been searching for the man all day is not credible.

Bottom line: if you buy this movie, you get what you deserve.


review
2007-01-17 - i purchased this as a gift so I am not able to offer a review.