Send-up of a village under siege. A band of Trail Elves, in uniforms made of appliance boxes, descend on the city for their annual door-to-door sale of folding chairs to benefit charity. A handful of rhetorically tough characters who promise not to give them one red cent get ready to face down the Trail Elves. It's a clash of movie-showdown clichés. Are the Trail Elves a menace or are they sweet innocents?
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