So. Our heroine has problems.
She wants to be a photographer.
But.
She isn't brave enough to travel the world to follow her dreams like her best friend.
She can't bring herself to ask her parents to help her finance her own studio.
She forces herself to work in a studio taking passport photos to "pay the bills" and lives in this gorgeous, but I suppose less than mansion-like loft.
And worst of all? Her parents keep offering to give her money! Or a job at their law firm. They care about her life choices and worry for her. Her loving grandfather even has the audacity to give her a slightly broken family heirloom for Christmas that had belonged to her deceased grandmother.
The absolute horror of it all.
What this girl needs is a calendar that strips her of everything she has until the day before Christmas. Perhaps then, standing on the verge of the destitution and lonely despair that is the inescapable reality for so many people, will she realize how much she had to be grateful for.
I can't believe anyone could take this spoiled girl seriously or develop any form of connection with her as the leading character. This film was over for me before it began.
Review of The Holiday Calendar
