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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

2007 · 91 min

A gentle, snowy tale of grief slowly thawing into warmth, with quiet craftsmanship and small kindnesses doing the emotional work.

Directed by
Bill Clark
Genres
Family
Starring
Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Luke Ward-Wilkinson
Overview
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.

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Directed by
Bill Clark
Genres
Family
Starring
Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Luke Ward-Wilkinson
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • healing
  • found family
  • parenthood
  • isolation
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
family
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
Guy Farley
Cinematography
Emmanuel Kadosh
Runtime
91 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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