Homeless for the Holidays (2009)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Charming and brutal

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I watched this on Hulu, as it had a good rating. The movie has horrible acting and a bad script. This was probably one of the worse movies I've seen. It seemed like a church got together and auditioned members to be in this movie. The characters were very one dimensional and the acting was really bad. No one talks like that, argues like that. The people were very corny, I think the only one that did a good job would be the person that was getting them approved for food stamps. If your looking for a Christmas movie any other movie would do.

While not a top-tier production, this was not the intent of the movie.It is based upon real-life experiences of the Director, who also self-funded the $20K to begin the production of the movie. For more insight from the Director, please search the web for "The Story Behind "Homeless for the Holidays", found at christiancinema.com. (Due to review restrictions, could not provide a direct link to the article.)I've watched it several times, and each time, am able to pull more "pearls" from the heart of the story.At a minimum, the movie has "food for thought" value, and provides some great family discussion points about what really matters in this life ...

BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW TO THEIR NAME. NOW WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MOVIE. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THE FILM . NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 200 HOLIDAY FILMS. I HAVE NO AGENDA. I AM JUST HONEST.This was as bad as any film can get. I applaud that the writer took a chance but the casting fails him. I think nobody in this film ever took more then 1 acting class. In this film a man who is a snotty adman ends up losing his job after he agrees to take the fall for a faulty label. He is promised that he will get his job back as soon as "Controversy subsides". Little does he know his former boss/friend makes Mr Potter (from It's a Wonderful Life") look like a saint. Now after he loses his job he then slowly start losing everything else. His wife sticks by him and his kids are too good to be true. After he loses his job from the a boss from hell he gets a new job for minimum wage. He then sees that his new boss that is not from hell but from "hell adjacent". What did work in this film I am still trying to figure that out. The film is family safe but if you love your family don't make them watch this.

this was unwatchable. the actors shouldn't even call themselves actors, they're so terrible. A five year old can do better. I wouldn't waste my time if i were you. And now I'm just trying to take up space with all these unnecessary words and stuff because there is a stupid rule that you have to have a minimum of ten lines, which by the way makes no sense because I just want to tell you about the actors who can't act. I can act better than them and i'm 15 and only been in a couple drama classes. it's pretty pathetic whoever directed this. I hope you read this because you could've invested a little more in your actors and I'm sure you could've been a good Christmas movie.