‘Christmas Eve’ Trailer: Patrick Stewart Wishes You All A Merry Christmas
We rarely see great Christmas movies. We’ve only had a few notable ones in the past ten or fifteen years, includingKiss Kiss, Bang Bang,The Ice Harvest,Catch Me If You Can, andBad Santa– and two of those titles aren’t really even about the spirit of Christmas. But there are three Christmas movies coming out in the next two months about the holidays, and one of them has real potential. IsChristmas Evethat one film?
Watch theChristmas Evetrailer after the jump.
The one promising Christmas movie coming out this year, in my opinion, isn’tChristmas Eve; it’s directorJonathan Levine’s (50/50)The Night Before. That film, which starsSeth Rogen(Steve Jobs) andJoseph Gordon-Levitt(The Walk), has a lot of good buzz going for it.Christmas Eve, likethe forthcomingLove the Coopers, appears to be the kind of Christmas movie that comes and goes. The worst movies about this joyous holiday are generally the most schmaltzy ones. The trailer forChristmas Evedefinitely wears its heart on its sleeve — perhaps a little too much.
Here’s the trailer for directorMitch Davis' film, which seems to give away kind of a lot:
The film starsPatrick Stewart(Green Room),Jon Heder(Blades of Glory),Cheryl Hines(Curb Your Enthusiasm),Max Casella(Inside Llewyn Davis), andGary Cole(Office Space). After watching the trailer, you definitely feel like you’ve watched the whole movie. Obviously there’s only so much a trailer for a movie about characters stuck in elevators can show, but nonetheless, this seems like an awfully spoiler-heavy trailer.
At least the trailer didn’t show us whether Stewart’s curmudgeonly character has a change of heart because of the spirit of Christmas.
Here’s the official plot synopsis forChristmas Eve:
When a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve, they find that laughter, romance, and a little holiday magic will get them through – and change their lives in unexpected ways. A heartless real estate tycoon (Patrick Stewart) clings to life in a precarious construction elevator hundreds of feet off the ground. Unexpected relationships bloom for a musician (Cheryl Hines) stuck with her dysfunctional orchestra mates, as well as an aspiring fashion photographer (James Roday) confined with the introverted paralegal in his apartment building (Julianna Guill). A crass HR manager (Max Casella) trapped with an employee he just fired (Jon Heder) and a cynical doctor (Gary Cole) transporting his terminal patient are forced to reconsider the way they think about others in this all-star ensemble comedy that proves that in a city of eight million, you never know who you might get stuck with.
