Every year during the festivities
I remember friends and family
Those who are no longer with us
To celebrate another Christmas
And with each passing December
It seems there are more to remember
But I take time in equal measure
To enjoy each moment and to treasure
Those special ones who are still here
Whose number also grows year on year
When she was a child, Darcy (Caitlin Thompson), had no control over the Christmases with her argumentative parents Bill and Sylvia (Gary Hetzler and Norma Sheahan), so it was perhaps unsurprising that she grew up to be a Christmas control freak.
In fact she was so obsessed with Christmas perfection that she
actually lost sight of what Christmas actually meant and what was really
important to her.
Its only when she finds herself magically transported into what she
always believed to be her ideal of the perfect Christmas Village that she
learns that 'perfection' isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Darcy’s love interest comes in the form of Brandon and Tom (James Henri-Thomas and Robbie
Silverman) in this quirky Christmas offering.
JOY TO THE WORLD
Words by Isaac Watts
and Music by Lowell Mason
Joy to the world, the
Lord is come!
Let earth receive her
King;
Let every heart
prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature
sing,
And heaven and nature
sing,
And heaven, and
heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the world, the
Savior reigns!
Let men their songs
employ;
While fields and
floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding
joy,
Repeat the sounding
joy,
Repeat, repeat, the
sounding joy.
No more let sins and
sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the
ground;
He comes to make His
blessings flow
Far as the curse is
found,
Far as the curse is
found,
Far as, far as, the
curse is found.
He rules the world
with truth and grace,
And makes the nations
prove
The glories of His
righteousness,
And wonders of His
love,
And wonders of His
love,
And wonders, wonders,
of His love.
Angels from on high
Behold we bring news
Christ is coming
Do not be afraid
Emmanuel is coming
Follow yonder star
Go to Bethlehem
Hosanna God be praised
In the town of Bethlehem
Jesus was born
Kneeling shepherds before him
Lowing beasts in attendance
Magi from the east
Noel, noel, noel
On the first morning
Peace came to the world
Quelling fear and pain
Rekindling the light
Saviour son of God
The prince of peace was born
Uniting the world
Verily the most
Wondrous of times
Xmas festival of love
Yule tide of good will
Zion brought to earth
Now Dasher, Now, Dancer
Now Prancer and Vixen
On Comet, On Cupid
On Donner, On Blitzen
So the plastic Santa’s say
Down at the mall
But shoppers have a verse
That serves one and all
Now charge it, now defer it
No cash and No cheques
On store card, on visa
On MasterCard and A-mex
Kevin (Jay Mohr) tries desperately to be involved with his son Ben (Logan Grove) and ex-wife Jill (Daphne Zuniga), even if it means spending Christmas with her parents, Trudi and Arthur (Adrienne Barbeau and Tim Thomerson), who loathe him, and Granny Conlon (Ruta Lee) who likes him a little too much.
But what he hadn’t
bargained on was the double whammy of sharing the day with Jill’s new boyfriend
Todd (David Millbern) or the fact that the only road out of Town was blocked by
a boulder.
But he could have
coped with all of that for one day, but during dinner his son Ben suddenly wished that
it was Christmas every day, and from then on in true Groundhog Day tradition
Kevin was forced to relive Christmas Day over and over again until he gets it
right.
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
Words and music attributed
to John F. Wade
O come all ye
faithful, joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye,
to Bethlehem.
Come and behold him,
born the King of angels;
O come let us adore
him, O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore
him, Christ the Lord.
True God of true God,
Light from Light Eternal,
lo, he shuns not the
Virgin's womb;
Son of the Father,
begotten not created;
O come let us adore
him, O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore
him, Christ the Lord.
Sing, choirs of
angels, sing in exultation;
O sing, all ye
citizens of heaven above!
Glory to God, all
glory in the highest;
O come let us adore
him, O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore
him, Christ the Lord.
See how the shepherds,
summoned to his cradle,
leaving their flocks,
draw nigh to gaze;
we too will thither
bend our joyful footsteps;
O come let us adore
him, O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore
him, Christ the Lord.
Child, for us sinners
poor and in the manger,
we would embrace thee
with love and awe.
Who would not love
thee, loving us so dearly?
O come let us adore
him, O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore
him, Christ the Lord.
Yea, Lord, we greet
thee, born this happy morning,
Jesus, to thee be all
glory given.
Word of the Father,
now in flesh appearing:
O come let us adore
him, O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore
him, Christ the Lord.
