Christmas Everlasting

24/11/2018 1h 24m 5.8/10

Overview

Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York’s top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, unexpectedly passes away, Lucy returns back to Nilson’s Bay, Wis., to attend the funeral and handle her estate. While Lucy dreads returning to her childhood home, she also feels real sorrow that she was too busy to take her sister’s last call. Once back in Nilson’s Bay, Lucy meets Peter, her old high school sweetheart and Alice’s former attorney, who informs her of the terms of Alice’s eccentric will that states in order for Lucy to inherit the family home, she must live there for 30 days through the holidays.

Director

Ron Oliver

Top Billed Cast

Dennis Haysbert

Uncle Barney

Tatyana Ali

Lucy Toomey

Patti LaBelle

Mrs. Swinson

Amanda Brooks

Daphne

Dondré Whitfield

Peter Swinson

Shi Ne Nielson

Rinda

Reviews

r96sk

12/9/2020

7/10

Very good opening and ending, the unoriginal and by the numbers middle definitely hamper the film but it's still one I enjoyed. <em>'Christmas Everlasting'<em> does feature a fair amount of heart, I cared for the main character - Tatyana Ali's Lucy. It's a good story, one that isn't all that usual for these festive television films. Unfortunately, as noted, is does hit the beats that those aforementioned productions would during the middle part - which is slow and uneventful. Ali, as well as Dondré T. Whitfield & Dennis Haysbert and a few others, are pleasant to watch though - which stops the film from falling down the rankings. The trio of characters, spearheaded by Amanda Brooks, are strangely written, I will say. All in all, it's worth a watch.