“Christmas Eve” is a comedic drama about six different incidents of entrapped New Yorkers, the majority of whom get stuck inside elevators.
It happens on Christmas Eve after a power outage and
those trapped are confined there overnight.
Some of the confined are in groups, such as
concert musicians on their way to perform a Christmas Eve concert, a surgical
team and their patient at the hospital on the way down from theatre, and five
mismatched individuals who would not under normal circumstances have gelled.
There was one couple, a shy wallflower and a
brash photographer, and another made up of an employer and the employee he’s
just laid off, and then there are two individuals in solitary confinement, one
is a bitter wealthy developer in an open elevator on a construction site and
the other is the van driver who is trapped in the van that crashed into the
sub-station and caused the power outage.
Unable to escape they are forced to interact
with their fellow captives or confront their solitude and they are all
transformed by the events of their long night of confinement.
Patrick Stewart and Gary Cole are the big
names in the large talented ensemble cast but for me Steven John Shepherd as
Glen and Shawn Ora Engemann as Nurse Byrnes are the stars of this Christmas
gem.
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