Tuesday 8 June 2021

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LAST CHANCE FOR CHRISTMAS (2005)

 

Tom Lane (David Sutcliffe) is the star columnist for the San Francisco Sun newspaper which is owned by a huge media conglomerate, and the parent company headed by Anthony Shephard (Garry Chalk), is interested in increasing Tom's media exposure by producing a new television show around him. Meanwhile Liz Madison (Dina Meyer) is the advice columnist for the little read community newspaper, the Marin County Voice, which is the epitome of a gentler age.

Apart from both being journalists, and being singletons with their friends and family doing whatever they can to find that special someone to fill a void in their personal lives, they have nothing in common.

At the beginning of November the staff at the Voice learn that the conglomerate that owns the Sun has bought their newspaper, with the likelihood that the Sun would swallow them up, meaning all the staff at the Voice would lose their jobs.

To fight back, Liz decides to abandon her advice column and change it into a forthright editorial espousing the true meaning of Christmas and championing the Voice’s importance to the community, and because of the feisty and entertaining nature of Liz's new column, the circulation of the Voice increases dramatically, so much so that the new owner has second thoughts about closing it.

The knock on effect of that would be to put Tom's new television show in jeopardy, so to protect his career advancement, Tom decides to write a contradictory column to Liz's, advocating the need to instil some practicality into Christmas.

So The competing columns become a personal battle for the two adversarial columnists, but while Tom and Liz are spewing out their mutual loathing for each other and what they stand for, their respective friends try to convince them of the old adage that opposites attract and that there is a fine line between love and hate.

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