Santa as a super hero. That’s probably the pitch that ION, forever in the shadow of Hallmark and Lifetime, couldn’t resist. Unfortunately they have no clue what do with that intriguing idea and it ends up that Santa’s real super power is to gaslight women.
Like most Christmas movies, Last Chance for Christmas’s plot is fairly thin. The movie tries to add drama by mixing in a tough ethical question for the characters to wrestle with but then resorts to solving it at the end via Santa magic.
This is the traditional Thanksgiving meal of Lifetime movies with all the usual fixins: sexy troubled teens, drugs, underage sex, and single mothers.
The working title of this movie is The Dating Coach, and I’m not sure which title is more boring than the other. Which, as it turns out, is totally apt for this snoozefest.
My PVR didn’t catch the first couple minutes of this movie, so IMDb is going to help me out here:
Blake and his mother Roxy live in Charlotte, NC. Roxy owns a dance studio and Blake is looking forward to a career as a fighter. On Thanksgiving Eve, there is a terrible car accident. Blake’s mother is killed and he is seriously injured. After he recovers, he finds Ruben at his bedside announcing he is his father and is taking him back to Miami. At 17, Blake cannot live on his own and has no choice but to go with the man who abandoned him as a baby.
Ooh, very dramatic.
The Duds and Studs 