Homeless for the Holidays (2009)

If you watch movie watch it with looking for the real meaning of what it is trying to tell you .. in life it is always so easy to condemn rather than praise Remember praise is a good thing I really enjoyed the movie because the actors seemed more real to me than some other actors Praise is a good thing the movie is trying to get a certain message learn from it I for one enjoyed Just finished watching completely WoW what an inspirational Movie Just finish movie if you aren't moved by it then something in missing in your life

I was looking for a feel good Christmas movie and stumbled upon this film. Nice message behind it but the acting is possibly the worst I've ever seen. It was so cringe-worthy the actors should be ashamed. If they had used people who could act then it would of been a really good film. It was that bad you couldn't help but watch it.

Young Matt Moore is an up and coming advertising executive who is living the American dream with wife Crystal DeWitt-Hinkle and their two kids. But it's all yanked out from under him and at Christmas time as well. He loses his job because he takes one for the team and his sacrifice of his job prevents his company from being subject to a lawsuit. He gets promised that his job will eventually be restored, but that turns out to be empty promises.I saw this happen a number of times especially after the World Trade Center disaster when the sole breadwinner was taken from the family. DeWitt-Hinkle has a teaching credentials, but it will take a few months to get her recertified and Moore winds up working in a fast food joint.This particular Christian film says that God will look after his own if you have a generous spirit. We see Moore and his family who've really got the spirit of Christmas give to some homeless people, to a collecting Santa Claus. Come tomorrow though and watch Christian television and that spirit will be translated into give to this particular nattily dressed reverend so he can enjoy a most opulent lifestyle doing God's work. Somehow I don't think God had that in mind.There were some worthwhile scenes that hit home for me. My favorite is DeWitt-Hinkle trying to get food stamps and dealing with the income levels needed for them. She can't feed her family, but they have too many assets like a van that is paid for free and clear. Sell the van so you can qualify to be fed. Last year I had a friend who sustained seizure disorders and had to take a pay cut from his fast food job in order to qualify for Medicaid. Hopefully Obamacare will remedy that.The family does become Homeless For The Holidays, but it all works out in the end. I've seen far worse Christian films, this is not a bad one from that genre.

This movie is by far the worst movie that I've ever seen. The acting was terrible, the scriptwriting was cliché and the underscore was so poorly produced that a circus would scoff at it. There were very few camera angles, which made viewing uninteresting. There were many scenes where the backgrounds were blurred out which actually distracted me more than if they had not been (I understand this'll have been to hide business names, but there are better ways to hide that.) The relationship between the main character and his wife was unappealing, and neither were good actors. The "comical scenes" weren't very funny at all, they were actually so 'unfunny' that they were embarrassing to the viewer. Some of the situations were insanely unrealistic and since this is supposed to be a true story, I was confused. I'm sure there was a good, wholesome point to be made, but it was lost somewhere between the cheesy acting and the poor scriptwriting. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone who values good movies!