Merry Christmas
Yuletide
friend
Cherished
memories of
Heartfelt
love and
Remembered
moments
Instantly
recalled
Special
moments of
Time
spent together
Merry
Christmas’s
And
happy new years
Special
friend of mine
For
me always
Remembering
your smile
Instantly
helps me
Each
time I’m down at
Not
being with you
This is the
endearing tale of the postal service’s four musketeers of the Dead Letter
Office, the beloved quartet of post office detectives, with a duty to deliver
every last letter before Christmas.
Oliver
O'Toole (Eric Mabius) and his team, Shane McInerney (Kristin Booth), Rita
Haywith (Crystal Lowe) and Norman Dorman (Geoff Gustafson), are working around
the clock to redirect Santa’s mail and with the assistance and a little
guidance from a mysterious post office volunteer, Jordan (Rob Estes) they clear
all the back log by the end of December 23rd.
The whole group then all attend the Christmas formal before they head
off on their separate ways to spend their Christmas’s alone where they receive
an emotional last-minute plea addressed to God, so they must delay their own
travel plans to make sure one little girl doesn’t lose her Christmas joy.
And as they work tirelessly to make the little girl’s wish come true
Oliver runs into his former Sunday school teacher (Marion Ross) and the true
identity of the mysterious Jordan is revealed and the quartet discover love
right under their noses.
Christmas is the time for living
Spreading
love with the gift giving
So at the
festive time of year
Fill your
heart with Christmas cheer
Beware of what you write
In your
Christmas letter to Santa
Ask
yourself if you’ve been good
But be
honest when you answer
If you’re
naughty and say you’re nice
Santa may
erupt with laughter
He may even
laugh so violently
That you end
up killing Santa
The best way to prepare
Your turkey
this Christmas
Is to keep
it simple
To minimize
the fuss
To my way
of thinking
The best
method to apply
Is just be
straight
And say
“Turkey, you’re going to die”
To most of the inhabitants of Conway, South Carolina, Duncan Mayor (Andy Garcia) is a bad tempered
grouch, but to his wife, Suzy
Mayor (Mary-Louise Parker) he was a
doting pussycat.
And he has more reason than normal to be cranky because Suzy is dying
and has arrived home from the hospital to be cared for 24/7 by Nurse Natalie Springer (Mandy Moore), whom Duncan resents
for being there and tries his best to ignore her.
He also
singles out landscape gardener Tommy Harris (Riley Smith) for special treatment
while he is working on the neighbour’s garden.
But Duncan begrudging employs Tommy to help him set up a Ferris Wheel
in his own back yard as a special Christmas present for Suzy and the
significance of the gift was that it was while riding one many years earlier
that Duncan asked Suzy to marry him.
Neighbour Gayle
Matthews (Cheri Oteri) is the
only fly in the ointment who manages to the construction halted.
But the ex-carnival worker, Henry (Mark Jeffrey Miller), who Duncan bought the Ferris
Wheel from comes to the rescue to finish the job with his crew.
This is a wonderful story full of tears and laughter in equal measure
and Mary-Louise Parker puts in
another trademark performance in a very memorable Christmas story of enduring
love.
Be on your guard
Wherever
you go
Tread very
carefully
You could
even tip toe
But if you
don’t take heed
And don’t
watch where you go
You may get
caught
Beneath the
mistletoe
