Speaker 1: So we've established that you're a huge holiday person all
Speaker 1: the way around, aren't you. Yes, So Halloween all out, yes,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving all out?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is Christmas though, you're number one, my favorite, number one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love this time of year. I love the weather.
Speaker 2: I love that it's snowboarding season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost seventy five, it dips almost seventy five degrees.
Speaker 1: It's just gorgeous, wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I was so thankful for last year
Speaker 2: when we got our place up in Big Bears, because
Speaker 2: we can go to where it feels a lot colder,
Speaker 2: you know, it's more than down here, and it's just
Speaker 2: a quick two hour drive for us. So I do
Speaker 2: love that. But yes, I mean I like I would
Speaker 2: just die. You know. We talked about this with our
Speaker 2: other Christmas movie. To have a like perfect Christmas snow
Speaker 2: world like snow We Wonderland would be the dream for me.
Speaker 1: Raised in Connecticut, we used to get, we used to get.
Speaker 2: I always wanted to be in you know, New York
Speaker 2: during Christmas like that was always just it would.
Speaker 1: Be London at Christmas time is like really because they'll
Speaker 1: do up all the storefronts with lights, so like Fortenham
Speaker 1: and Mason Is looks like a giant advent calendar with
Speaker 1: all the windows and there's just lights everywhere, and it's
Speaker 1: it's magical. New York City is the same way.
Speaker 2: It's just h Yeah, London, I bet would be very
Speaker 2: it's your favorite place, so I sure it is.
Speaker 1: I love it anyway. But welcome back to Magical rewind
Speaker 1: the show that makes you want to grab your friends,
Speaker 1: your pjs and your popcorn and go back to a
Speaker 1: time when all the houses were smart, the Wave, Tsunamis
Speaker 1: and the high School's musical.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Brian.
Speaker 1: It's the season, everybody, or should I say tis the season,
Speaker 1: which is just it's the season misspelled, uh deck the
Speaker 1: halls and become best friends with a tree because we're
Speaker 1: basking in the festive season. By recapping nineteen ninety six
Speaker 1: as Wonderful World of Disney movie The Christmas Tree, and
Speaker 1: it's there has never been a more apply named film,
Speaker 1: yes in the hiss, since maybe what we were talking
Speaker 1: about before we went on there Karate Kid, which was
Speaker 1: literally just about a karate kid. Well, this is about
Speaker 1: a Christmas Tree, so it's called The Christmas Tree. It's
Speaker 1: a buddy drama between a big city gardener and a
Speaker 1: secluded nun over possession of a giant tree. Or it's
Speaker 1: a buddy drama about a nun and a tree. You
Speaker 1: could look at it that way too. It premiered on
Speaker 1: ABC December twenty second, nineteen ninety six, predictably, just in
Speaker 1: time for Christmas, and is based on a New York
Speaker 1: Times bestseller of the same name from frequent collaborators, writer
Speaker 1: Julie Salomon and illustrator Jill Weber. Salomon began her career
Speaker 1: as a respected journalist and transitioned into a prolific author
Speaker 1: in several different genres, from memoir to biography to young adult.
Speaker 1: It's shot in Pittsburgh, Yes, a new location for us.
Speaker 1: Put a pin on the map that will be probably
Speaker 1: your second or third pin, and the entire map, because
Speaker 1: that's they always shoot in the same places. You've got
Speaker 1: Utah with seven hundred of them, You've got Los Angeles
Speaker 1: with seven hundred of them, and now you got one
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh with a few shots in New York. Understandably,
Speaker 1: and in the lexicon of Disney Channel produced movies, this
Speaker 1: tear Jerker is memorable for many reasons. The most glaring
Speaker 1: is a high, very high profile actress making her directorial debut.
Speaker 1: But we're going to get to that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Have you been to Rock Center during christ I have?
Speaker 2: I have?
Speaker 1: Have you skated?
Speaker 2: I have not either. No. We're there on tour doing
Speaker 2: our Christmas tour for the Cheetah Girls, and I got
Speaker 2: to go see the tree, but we didn't have time
Speaker 2: to kind of, you know, do the whole ice skating thing.
Speaker 2: It would be such a dream though, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's so amazing.
Speaker 1: I haven't either. I grew up going to New York
Speaker 1: all the time. I see the tree one hundred times.
Speaker 1: Fao Schwartz around Christmas, the original fair Sworts. They moved it.
Speaker 1: It's now like a much smaller place. But the old
Speaker 1: school Fao Schwartz that was three or four stories tall,
Speaker 1: where they shot big and they just Christmas. It was magic.
Speaker 1: It was the most amazing places.
Speaker 2: And you didn't ice skate?
Speaker 1: No, never, I don't know. I mean I can skate,
Speaker 1: I can't stop. We talked about this. I can do
Speaker 1: a lot of things on boards, but I can't stop
Speaker 1: on any of them. So skating Yeah, that's a tough
Speaker 1: stop right there.
Speaker 2: You're in California. They do that a couple of places.
Speaker 2: They've got these rinks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, near us there's one.
Speaker 2: The last one I went to was so tiny. All
Speaker 2: I could see was these little kids blades coming up
Speaker 2: in the air and just like cutting my jugular likes
Speaker 2: it was. There was no it was not safe. It
Speaker 2: was not because there was no you know, no one
Speaker 2: really yeah knows how to skate that goes out on
Speaker 2: those and with it being that much smaller, it's less roof.
Speaker 1: Right the season to ex sanguinate.
Speaker 2: As they said, I nervous. Jordan was so embarrassed as
Speaker 2: me because I just was, Oh, my god, get away,
Speaker 2: get away, like I'm showing little kids to go. I
Speaker 2: still don't believe Jordan exists, by the way, I know,
Speaker 2: I know for sure soon now.
Speaker 1: You got to meet my wife. My wife, she was
Speaker 1: so funny because she was like I really like her.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I know, she's very sweet. So you
Speaker 1: met my wife. You know my wife's real.
Speaker 2: I do. For one day, you won't figure out whether
Speaker 2: or not Jordan's I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure I will. A little history on the Rockefeller Tree.
Speaker 1: By the way, It is a very large Christmas tree
Speaker 1: placed annually at Rockefella Center in Midtown Manhattan, and is
Speaker 1: one of the states, if not the country's, most recognizable landmarks.
Speaker 1: Set next to NBC's notorious thirty Rock Studios, Its lighting
Speaker 1: ceremony is broadcast live on the network annually and it's
Speaker 1: transported in mid November and brightened. I think that's where
Speaker 1: they lighted up. I guess it's like it's technically called
Speaker 1: being brightened on Wednesday after Thanksgiving and estimated one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five million people visit the attraction per year
Speaker 1: and an uncountable amount seat on TV or in the movies.
Speaker 1: The tree is usually a Norway spruce somewhere in the
Speaker 1: sixty nine to one hundred foot tall range and is
Speaker 1: donated to stand there in New York and then becomes
Speaker 1: lumber after the new year. David Murbach, manager of the
Speaker 1: Garden's division of Rockefeller Center, scouted for the tree in
Speaker 1: upstate New York and nearby states, even venturing into Canada
Speaker 1: right up until his death in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: And now the head gardener, Eric Pause, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: is in charge. I was hoping you get that if
Speaker 1: you can believe it. Trees can now also be submitted
Speaker 1: for consideration through the center's website. There is also a
Speaker 1: new television reality game show where trees dress up as
Speaker 1: different characters and sing and they are kicked off one
Speaker 1: at a time until they pick the new tree. I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: of course, that is that is not at all what happens,
Speaker 1: because trees cancing, and for many years it was considered
Speaker 1: the largest public display tree. But then LA had to
Speaker 1: go and ruin everything in their typical fashion with their
Speaker 1: hundred to hundred and ten foot tree at the Grove
Speaker 1: Shopping Center. What a jerk tree.
Speaker 2: Okay, but I I didn't think that that was a
Speaker 2: real tree anymore. I thought by this time, with it
Speaker 2: being so big, I didn't know they actually still get
Speaker 2: real trees for Rockefella.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I honestly didn't know that the Groves ever was a
Speaker 2: big tree.
Speaker 1: And plastic surgery.
Speaker 2: Well, there's not a lot of forests around us, and
Speaker 2: you know, so, I mean, obviously yes they can, they'll
Speaker 2: they bring it in, but you just don't think of
Speaker 2: LA thinking there'd be I feel like in New York,
Speaker 2: you know that the outskirts of New York there's a lot.
Speaker 1: Of Yeah, you've got that kind of outdoorsy Christmas y tree.
Speaker 2: Kind of yes, yeah, there's not a lot here in
Speaker 2: La So I never thought that one was real. But
Speaker 2: I was really excited to find out that this was
Speaker 2: a real tree.
Speaker 1: Still that all real, isn't that?
Speaker 2: Ne Oh? Wow, it's giant.
Speaker 1: Wow wow wow it is. It's huge. Do you already
Speaker 1: know what you're asking for for Christmas? We'll do that later. Okay.
Speaker 1: We asked this every week. Had you heard of the
Speaker 1: Christmas Tree movie?
Speaker 2: Never? No, never, ever ever?
Speaker 1: And the thing that's interesting is, I think my date
Speaker 1: with the President's daughter was nineteen ninety seven, Wonderful World
Speaker 1: of Disney. This is nineteen ninety six. I figured I
Speaker 1: would have known kind of the movies around that era, Rightever,
Speaker 1: never heard of this before?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So before we light this baby up, though, let's get
Speaker 1: into the synopsis. An unexpected friendship blossoms between an elderly
Speaker 1: nun who's been growing a tree for decades and the
Speaker 1: Rockefeller gardener who wants to move it to their world
Speaker 1: renowned Christmas display. Early thoughts, what did you think of
Speaker 1: this movie?
Speaker 2: Sabrina? You know what I was stuck on at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, if this isn't a sign of pre covid,
Speaker 2: I don't know what is him with his snotty rag
Speaker 2: that he's so like five minutes like what is this guy? Ill?
Speaker 2: I mean? And just the idea that he's around all
Speaker 2: these older women. It's so pre covid because all I
Speaker 2: can think of is you're going to get those ladies sick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought the same thing.
Speaker 2: You never would have thought of.
Speaker 1: Yep. It's like you're around elderly people, you're getting.
Speaker 2: The mask on, Like, don't even go around them. They
Speaker 2: should not have you in there. Yeah, they're convent.
Speaker 1: Did you like it though?
Speaker 2: I would? You know? At first? It's a Christmas movie,
Speaker 2: and I always have good hopes. I do sit and
Speaker 2: watch tons of Hallmark and Lifetime. I love all of
Speaker 2: their Christmas stuff. I think next year, when it comes
Speaker 2: to reviewing Christmas movies, we might want to us hop
Speaker 2: over there.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe quickly jump to a Hallmark or Lifetime movie.
Speaker 2: Away from Disney for just a little bit, because I
Speaker 2: think this is just another pin on the board to
Speaker 2: say that Disney's not necessarily the one. Well, we haven't
Speaker 2: found it yet. I mean we there's big movie the
Speaker 2: motion pictures, but the ones that are catered for the
Speaker 2: television just don't seem to hit the greatest mark. I
Speaker 2: went in and out of it, but at the very
Speaker 2: beginning it was just kind of like, what are we what?
Speaker 2: So this is just about getting a tree, right, okay?
Speaker 2: And then once we got our main character telling her story,
Speaker 2: I did start caring and diving in a little bit more.
Speaker 2: But at the beginning, I'm going I mean again, I
Speaker 2: was really caught up with his cold.
Speaker 1: You couldn't get over the cold.
Speaker 2: But it seemed like they kind of brushed over quite
Speaker 2: a bit, like I didn't understand what was going on
Speaker 2: with the assistant at first, say like what you know? Wait, yeah,
Speaker 2: and there's all these talks about other women. So it
Speaker 2: was kind of just blotchy for a good minute for me,
Speaker 2: until finally when we start hearing the backstory of this
Speaker 2: specific nun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind I actually kind of agree with that.
Speaker 1: I went in, you know it, we'll get into the cast,
Speaker 1: but Andrew McCarthy because it's like, Okay, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be good. And then it felt like a real movie,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. It didn't feel like a Disney
Speaker 1: Channel early nineties movie. Because it's a mid nineties, earlier midnights,
Speaker 1: it felt like a real movie. And I was like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: and then I was kind of like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is this? And then I was openly weeping At one
Speaker 1: point by myself. Sue was gone, she was out for
Speaker 1: the night, and I was like looking at my dog, like,
Speaker 1: what is going on?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: I didn't get to that emotional place down I did,
Speaker 2: and I'm stucker for emotion.
Speaker 1: As we teased before, this movie is directed by a
Speaker 1: superstar and it was her first time behind the camera.
Speaker 1: Ready for this, Sally Field directed The Christmas Tree Yes.
Speaker 1: Field's career has spanned six decades, first breaking out in
Speaker 1: the hit nineteen sixties show Gidget as the titular surfer girl,
Speaker 1: which again really fun show. She'd go on to appear
Speaker 1: in some of the biggest movies, including Norman Ray, Forrest Gump,
Speaker 1: she was Forest's Mom, Steel Magno, and Missus Doubtfire. She's
Speaker 1: won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, and three Primetime
Speaker 1: Emmy Awards. It would be an easy argument to say
Speaker 1: she is one of her generation's most successful actresses. She's
Speaker 1: just amazing, and though Christmas Tree was her directorial debut,
Speaker 1: she'd only go on to direct one episode of Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks's produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, my
Speaker 1: favorite miniseries of all time. Go watch it. It's amazing,
Speaker 1: and the two thousand movie Beautiful, starring Mini Driver and
Speaker 1: Hallie Eisenberg. Did you know she directed this?
Speaker 2: No, not until I kind of got you know, I
Speaker 2: skim for just kind of a quick what we're looking
Speaker 2: at before and that I saw that, and I'm bummed.
Speaker 2: I didn't get it, Like, where was.
Speaker 1: Her little just cameo something? Yeah, well she played the tree.
Speaker 1: She was the tree.
Speaker 2: Oh, she was the tree.
Speaker 1: Got it? Got it?
Speaker 2: I would have thought we would have gotten a tiny
Speaker 2: little cameo. I guess she probably was like really wanting
Speaker 2: to yeah, focused on She wasn't here to action. Is
Speaker 2: there to direct?
Speaker 1: What are the chances of getting her to come on
Speaker 1: magical rewind to talk about God?
Speaker 2: I think we've got a really big chance.
Speaker 1: I think so too. I think we're gonna shoot for
Speaker 1: the stars. We're gonna get there, We're gonna get there.
Speaker 1: This movie stars Julie Harris, as sister. Anthony Harris was
Speaker 1: a five time Tony winning stage actress who also scored
Speaker 1: three Emmys and a Grammy. So she lives in the
Speaker 1: rare era that Fields does. And Harris was very close
Speaker 1: to an Egot, which everybody knows is an Emmy, Golden Globe,
Speaker 1: and Oscar and Tony. She was what I said, dang,
Speaker 1: oh Grammy, I said Golden Globe, that was wrong, and Emmy,
Speaker 1: a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. She was nominated
Speaker 1: for an Oscar in nineteen fifty two for the movie
Speaker 1: The Member of the Wedding, but unfortunately lost. Other notable
Speaker 1: movies she's in includes East of Eden and The Haunting.
Speaker 1: Harris died in twenty thirteen at the age of eighty seven.
Speaker 1: And Andrew McCarthy is Richard Riley. McCarthy was a member
Speaker 1: of the Infamous Brat Pack, a group of popular young
Speaker 1: actors in the eighties who were taking over Hollywood, starring
Speaker 1: and projects together. The group also included names like Amelio Estevez,
Speaker 1: Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, rob Loo, and Demi Moore. McCarthy
Speaker 1: was seen movies like Saint Elmo's Fire, which was not
Speaker 1: a good movie. Less than Zero, which was a great movie.
Speaker 1: Pretty in Pink, which you remember being a good movie
Speaker 1: but actually wasn't. And Mannequin is the same thing. And
Speaker 1: of course Weekend at Bernie's, which is well, weekend at Bernie's, Serena,
Speaker 1: have you seen any of these?
Speaker 2: I've seen Pretty in Pink and I've seen Weekend at Bernie's.
Speaker 1: You never saw a mannequin?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: You know what Mannikin's about.
Speaker 2: No, I feel like I'm thinking of a wrong movie
Speaker 2: where a manniquin comes alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's the one. Kim Cattrall plays a mannequin.
Speaker 1: She was an ancient Egyptian. Yeah, and she becomes a
Speaker 1: mannequin and he like unlocks her at night and is
Speaker 1: having sex with a mannequin. Yeah, no, I have not
Speaker 1: seen it. I think I've seen a different strange she
Speaker 1: picks them straight.
Speaker 2: Hyra Banks is in My Man.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, the no, no, no, this is from like
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four. Okay, that was probably that was a remake.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing of this one with Angela.
Speaker 2: No, no, she doesn't have sex with anyone.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh yeah, no, oh yeah, no, not this one.
Speaker 1: He's he's like he puts her. He designs storefronts, and
Speaker 1: he puts her in all the storefronts of a mannequin.
Speaker 1: And she comes live at night and they date, but
Speaker 1: if anybody sees them together, it just looks like it.
Speaker 1: So he's like riding his motorcycle in the streets of
Speaker 1: New York with a mannequin on the back, but then
Speaker 1: she's hugging him, then to mannequin on the back, and
Speaker 1: then he goes down.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's funny.
Speaker 1: You gotta go check it out. It's a weird movie.
Speaker 1: McCarthy has since went on to direct TV shows like
Speaker 1: Gossip Girl, White Collar, Orange Is the New Black, and
Speaker 1: also this year's documentary about his notorious eighties friends group
Speaker 1: called Brats, which did very very well. Triny Alvarado is Beth.
Speaker 1: Triny is best known as Meg in the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four version of Little Women, and from her role in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six is Peter jackson horror comedy The Frighteners
Speaker 1: opposite my idol Michael J.
Speaker 2: Fox.
Speaker 1: Betty Amberlin plays sister Sarah and maybe her last name
Speaker 1: might ring a bell with some of our people out there.
Speaker 1: She played Lady Amberln from the Land of Make Believe
Speaker 1: for the entire thirty three year run of Mister Rogers
Speaker 1: Neighborhood Awesome, and then later in her career she'd form
Speaker 1: an unlikely friendship with the director and writer Kevin Smith,
Speaker 1: and she went on to appear in a lot of
Speaker 1: his movies like Dogma, Zach and Mury Make a Porno
Speaker 1: which is very different than the Christmas Tree, and the
Speaker 1: just released four to thirty movie and all of you
Speaker 1: IMDb heads out there, which that might not be a
Speaker 1: thing dB heads, We'll figure it out. Someone named Colin
Speaker 1: Quinn is credited in the movie as Tom and is
Speaker 1: incorrectly linked to the stand up comedy legend of the
Speaker 1: same name, but it's actually Colin with two l's so wrong, guy,
Speaker 1: get your stuff together, IMDb. This movie is ninety two minutes.
Speaker 1: It is hovering over the target, but unfortunately landed two
Speaker 1: minutes beyond, which means it's too long, you go. Like
Speaker 1: I had mentioned, Julia Salomon and Joe Webber wrote the
Speaker 1: original book, so they get story credit, while Sally Field
Speaker 1: and a writer named Janet Bronwell shared teleplay credit. Brownwell
Speaker 1: wrote the salacious TV movie The Amy Fisher Story, again
Speaker 1: not quite the Christmas Tree, and some other TV movies
Speaker 1: like Once Upon a Mattress, Eloise at the Plaza and
Speaker 1: Twelve Days at Christmas. She really runs the gamut. So
Speaker 1: what are we waiting for? Let's chop down this Christmas tree?
Speaker 1: Oh oh no ouch. We open with some classical music
Speaker 1: and credits over close up shots of Christmas trees, only
Speaker 1: to be interrupted by a chainsaw Rockefeller Centers. Richard Riley
Speaker 1: is getting a tour of a forest area and different
Speaker 1: options from Sven, who is a ground keeper lumber jack.
Speaker 1: What are people an arborist? I guess is what he
Speaker 1: would be technically. Richard is not impressed at all with
Speaker 1: what he sees, and he knows his stuff. He also appears,
Speaker 1: as Sabrina has mentioned several times, to have a serious
Speaker 1: case of COVID, but is still out in the world
Speaker 1: and around elderly people. All the time, he is sneezing
Speaker 1: and coughing and covering his nose with a handkerchief. He
Speaker 1: tells then that the tree he picks needs to survive
Speaker 1: until the end of the year, and it's only March.
Speaker 1: A disease tree just won't do. He wants Ven's best
Speaker 1: tree for the world famous Rockefeller Center. But Fenn fnn.
Speaker 1: But Sven takes him to his quote very best, and
Speaker 1: it's even more pitiful than all the rest of them.
Speaker 2: It was and it didn't even look like a Christmas
Speaker 2: tree at all. It didn't look like one.
Speaker 1: It was Sven needs to be run out of the business.
Speaker 1: This is a side hustle for Sven. He's like, let.
Speaker 2: Me take you to my better Christmas tree. Here's a
Speaker 2: maple tree. Like it didn't even look like a ninth tree.
Speaker 1: It was like, that's an apple tree. You're not even close. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very very strange. Then Richard gets a call from his
Speaker 1: assistant Beth, and he tells her to call that farm
Speaker 1: in Vermont and get their tree after all, leaving Sven
Speaker 1: in the dust. But unfortunately Vermont called this morning and
Speaker 1: that tree already went to the White House. Also, he
Speaker 1: had a date later that got canceled, which he seems
Speaker 1: to pretend doesn't bother him at all, but we can
Speaker 1: tell it does. He hangs up with Beth, which also
Speaker 1: got kind of flirty in case you work in HR
Speaker 1: for the Rockefellers, but sneezing, coughing, and probably horribly contagious,
Speaker 1: Richard takes a helicopter so small, little tight area and
Speaker 1: scans the woods. When he sees something, it is a
Speaker 1: huge tree all by itself near a large manner. It's
Speaker 1: just perfect, almost a mirage. He's told it belongs to
Speaker 1: Brush Creek, which is a nun convent. He knows what
Speaker 1: he has to do and makes his way to the nunnery.
Speaker 1: He's immediately welcomed by a crabby nun who rejects help
Speaker 1: up the last two steps. I'm old, I'm not dead.
Speaker 1: Richard also meets Sister Sarah, a younger nun who appears
Speaker 1: to be working with cheese. Apparently this nunnery is known
Speaker 1: for their cows and their cheeses, which I think this
Speaker 1: is like actually a thing. I know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of beer, and.
Speaker 2: Just stayed at a convent, right right, yeah, and we
Speaker 2: stayed at the family member has another side of the
Speaker 2: family that has a nun aunt in there, and theirs
Speaker 2: is this awesome like caramel chocolates and that's like their
Speaker 2: thing as well as beer. They also do beer, which
Speaker 2: I was like, what, yeah, I would never yeah, ever know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's really cool that each hap they all
Speaker 2: have their kind of special thing that they make a
Speaker 2: lot of and they sell and I'm not sure where
Speaker 2: the proceeds like what they did, but it probably just
Speaker 2: for supply.
Speaker 1: And how where the caramels just like the most amazing
Speaker 1: candies you've ever had in it? Right, Yeah, so good.
Speaker 1: They've been perfecting them for like three hundred years. Kind
Speaker 1: of Oh my gosh, I'm gonna need that number of
Speaker 1: that nunnery, if that's okay with you, which is which
Speaker 1: is strange. He eventually meets mother Superior Francis, who's the
Speaker 1: top dog, that informs him they have a working Gary farm.
Speaker 1: And that's when I realized, I don't really know what
Speaker 1: nuns do when they aren't in church, so I guess
Speaker 1: it is stuff like this where.
Speaker 2: They have a whole day. I mean, we would even
Speaker 2: to see his aunt. She'd come over to meet a
Speaker 2: lot of us, and because she's lived there and it's
Speaker 2: out in New York or Boston area, and even to
Speaker 2: get her to come, her schedule was so jam passed.
Speaker 2: It was great an hour here, maybe forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: So we kind of adjusted our schedule around when she
Speaker 2: was available at amazing, got lots to do, way more
Speaker 2: stuffy to do than me they take care of the
Speaker 2: grounds themselves. They do everything pretty much.
Speaker 1: Idle hands of the devil's work, that's what they say.
Speaker 1: Well they do. Mother Superior here, we learn, is also
Speaker 1: very very hard of hearing, and that is going to
Speaker 1: come back in the future. Richard informs her that he's
Speaker 1: interested in the tree, and he's sent to Sister Anthony,
Speaker 1: the final boss on matters just like this, and someone
Speaker 1: who apparently just stands by the tree all day long
Speaker 1: like some kind of a bridge troll. I'm surprised he
Speaker 1: didn't have to answer the questions three before getting there. Also,
Speaker 1: Richard can't stop sneezing. He might be dying by this point.
Speaker 1: Maybe he has the plague. We're not sure. But after
Speaker 1: a long walk, Richard eventually makes it to the tree
Speaker 1: and it is absolutely stunning. It's exactly what he's looking
Speaker 1: for and more. He kicks the trunk to check for disease,
Speaker 1: and Sister Anthony, who's been landscaping, appears. He gives his
Speaker 1: desperate pitch for the tree and the importance of Rockefeller Center,
Speaker 1: but she is absolutely not sold. She questions his experience
Speaker 1: with raising trees. While she rejects him, he gets another
Speaker 1: call from a woman totally ghosting them because she's getting married.
Speaker 1: This dude can't find a tree or a woman to
Speaker 1: save his life.
Speaker 2: I thought those were such weird little.
Speaker 1: Calls that they're just very strange, kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I get what you're doing, but a weird way to
Speaker 1: set it up. Yeah, yeah, it would have been so
Speaker 1: if we shot this movie nowadays, as he's talking to her,
Speaker 1: he would have been getting texts Yes, yes, like no
Speaker 1: I'm not going to see you or can I come
Speaker 1: get my stuff or something like that. Yes, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's strange when he's on the phone the whole time.
Speaker 1: He's affected by this call though, But you know what's
Speaker 1: not affecting him his cold because the tree has oxygen
Speaker 1: healing powers, and Sister Anthony is obviously very connected to Tree,
Speaker 1: which is the creative name she's given him. She's been
Speaker 1: with Tree since she was a six year old orphan.
Speaker 1: This is where we see some flashbacks of her life,
Speaker 1: a format used for the entire movie going forward, and
Speaker 1: she's painting clock faces with other kids and eventually going silent.
Speaker 1: We learned she doesn't talk a lot. We're not entirely
Speaker 1: sure why she was stuck at the orphanage. At this point,
Speaker 1: it was a difficult time in her life, but she
Speaker 1: was protected from bullies by an older boy, Tom, who
Speaker 1: would give her leaves and acorns in a satchel every night,
Speaker 1: telling her they were magical. And I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're setting up Tom. Tom's going to be super important.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to meet Tom as an adult. We don't
Speaker 1: ever see Tom again.
Speaker 2: We don't.
Speaker 1: We don't ever see Tom again. He's gone, He's gone forever.
Speaker 1: Then one day some people took her from the home,
Speaker 1: separating her from her best friend forever again, assuming Tom
Speaker 1: was going to come back, but she still has the
Speaker 1: satchel he gave her, and the tree at her new
Speaker 1: home quickly became her new best friend. In modern times,
Speaker 1: We're back, Sister Anthony introduces Richard to tree and asks
Speaker 1: him to really touch him. Richard embraces the bark and
Speaker 1: is immediately at ease. And this raised a question while
Speaker 1: watching that I didn't see coming. I asked myself, is
Speaker 1: this man going to start a physical relationship with this tree?
Speaker 1: He did it with a mannequin, why not a tree?
Speaker 2: The longest and brave of this tree. It was like,
Speaker 2: and I mean, I've hugged a tree as trying to
Speaker 2: climb using the trunk, like never a comfortable feeling, always
Speaker 2: scratching up your your neck, your arms, your shoulders, your face,
Speaker 2: like there's nothing comfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, seriously, so weird.
Speaker 2: It was so weird. And I get it. This tree
Speaker 2: is very important. I understand that's what we're trying.
Speaker 1: To Like, yes, and he's supposed to have gotten a
Speaker 1: spiritual kind of feeling from it.
Speaker 2: But it was pretty.
Speaker 1: Longer than Molly Ducky in Pretty and Pink. I'm telling you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a lot. Okay, So, Sister Anthony says, some
Speaker 1: people say they feel God in the tree, which is
Speaker 1: obviously what the tree is supposed to represent. It's a
Speaker 1: source of love, which Richard admits he doesn't get much.
Speaker 1: He quickly opens up about his own life, saying he
Speaker 1: needs more comfort from humans. He loves his job, friends,
Speaker 1: and apartment, but Sister Anthony concludes he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: place where he's truly himself or somewhere where he really
Speaker 1: belongs like tree is for her. With this devastating assumption,
Speaker 1: she walks off, leaving Richard to sulk in his pitiful loneliness.
Speaker 1: His cold also comes back. Richard runs after the nun,
Speaker 1: but probably slowly because of the upper respiratory infection. He
Speaker 1: still wants tree, but Sister Anthony says, over my dead body.
Speaker 1: He finds out she teaches art and botany after she
Speaker 1: joked that she teaches sex ed, which is a weird
Speaker 1: kind of joke, but it was fun. Richard again is
Speaker 1: back to sneezing when Sister Anthony asks him to redo
Speaker 1: the grounds with her and some of her students. With
Speaker 1: his past and agriculture landscaping, he'd be a really big help,
Speaker 1: but he's still focused on getting the tree for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and that's his most important thing. We get another flashback
Speaker 1: here from her childhood after she was picked up from
Speaker 1: the orphanage and arrives at the monastery. The nuns help
Speaker 1: her talk again, with Sister Francis leading the way. She
Speaker 1: knows these women of God are looking to help her.
Speaker 1: Still very overwhelming, and she attempts to run away, only
Speaker 1: to get lost and scared, eventually falling on her face
Speaker 1: and landing right in front of tree. She cuddled the
Speaker 1: warm and sweet tree and felt immediately safe, And they
Speaker 1: did this thing. Where As she lays down, you can
Speaker 1: see the tree moving and like embracing her, like they
Speaker 1: gave the tree sentient powers a little bit. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they really did. It was trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: embrace her. So she cuddled up and the warm and
Speaker 1: sweet tree and felt immediately safe. She fell asleep there,
Speaker 1: eventually found by Sister Francis, prompting her to speak for
Speaker 1: the first time in a while. She says she wants
Speaker 1: to stay with tree, and so Francis lets her hang
Speaker 1: out there for the whole day. Other nuns came by
Speaker 1: to say hello and meat tree celebrating. Sister Anthony then
Speaker 1: called Anna's new found voice and everything here is very touching.
Speaker 1: They eventually pack up for the night, and this experience
Speaker 1: helped her realize she belonged here with the nuns and
Speaker 1: her tree. This also had me thinking, do nuns just
Speaker 1: adopt kids? Like to hit A bunch of nuns just
Speaker 1: get together and say I want that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that's really a thing. I don't
Speaker 2: think it is a thing nowadays. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: I've always thought in my head, nuns there was a
Speaker 2: lot a lot of times where nuns did take care
Speaker 2: of like orphanages, Like when you see in movies. You know,
Speaker 2: Elf is a movie where he starts in like, there's
Speaker 2: like nuns that are taking care of Yeah, these orphan babies.
Speaker 2: So I've kind of thought of that, but there were
Speaker 2: no other kids. This definitely was not a orphanage.
Speaker 1: It was they just adopted this kid.
Speaker 2: They just like adopted her. Yeah, so, but you do
Speaker 2: kind of have that common think idea of that nuns
Speaker 2: do take care of other babies that don't have family.
Speaker 1: I can see them running that first orphanage, but I
Speaker 1: didn't see eight nuns just to die. It was like
Speaker 1: a sitcom. Yeah, they made of us adopted a kid.
Speaker 1: It was really weird. She also reveals she's always had
Speaker 1: a recurring nightmare. She sees a beautiful, glowing shooting star
Speaker 1: and she tries to touch it, but as she gets close,
Speaker 1: a scary beast tries to bite her. Sister Francis's main
Speaker 1: message about Tree is that people aren't supposed to be
Speaker 1: alone in this world. Everyone must find their metaphorical tree
Speaker 1: and accept it. And all this speaks right to our
Speaker 1: Lona Richard. We see him arrive at home to no
Speaker 1: One and one message from missus Beth and another from
Speaker 1: maybe it's another girl telling her she's back together with
Speaker 1: her ex. I mean, this guy must just be a
Speaker 1: horrible date all the way around. He stares off sad
Speaker 1: as hell and starts drinking. That's just Tuesday. Now it's July.
Speaker 1: In the office and Richard has finally found a tree.
Speaker 1: He embraces Beth and they hold each other for too long,
Speaker 1: like he did with the tree, originally creating an awkward moment.
Speaker 1: We learn that Richard has been getting numerous letters and
Speaker 1: different crafts from Sister Anthony. He seems a little annoyed
Speaker 1: by it, but she still wants him to come help
Speaker 1: her gardening class. He calls the monastery, but Mother Superior
Speaker 1: is so hard of hearing. She thought he said he
Speaker 1: was coming to help, so now he's stuck. Also, Beth
Speaker 1: asks him over for dinner, and he'll try, but he's
Speaker 1: going to swing by the monastery. First sounds like a
Speaker 1: weird excuse. We are now in Sister Anthony's greenhouse. Richard
Speaker 1: lets her know he found a different tree for Rockefeller
Speaker 1: Center and he doesn't have time to help her with
Speaker 1: any landscaping. He also admits that his dad was a lawyer,
Speaker 1: so the idea of ever turning his gardening interest into
Speaker 1: a profession was never possible for him. She wonders if
Speaker 1: he truly is doing what he loves. Richard wants to
Speaker 1: get back to the city for dinner with Beth, but
Speaker 1: Sister Anthony, who explains she has degrees from Emerson and Yale,
Speaker 1: quotes Richard Frost. We get another flashback but her education
Speaker 1: at Brush Creek. She learned French piano and math from
Speaker 1: the nuns, but her real education was from being with
Speaker 1: and playing around Tree. This is where she learned to
Speaker 1: read and look for that big star from her nightmares,
Speaker 1: which she of course never found. She also gets common
Speaker 1: flashbacks of holding a man's hand. Her mentor, Sister Mary,
Speaker 1: eventually had to leave to go help in the war,
Speaker 1: leaving Annah very angry and sad. This might be where
Speaker 1: I started crying. She doesn't even say goodbye, but Sister
Speaker 1: Mary knows her heart is saying it for her and
Speaker 1: asks Tree to take care of her. Three months after
Speaker 1: she left, Sister Mary was killed in a bombing attack
Speaker 1: and received the Medal of Bravery. Sister Anthony and Richard
Speaker 1: end up crying from the story, so did I, but
Speaker 1: are interrupted when the group of students come running for
Speaker 1: their lesson. Richard decides to join after all, which leads
Speaker 1: us to Beth, his very sad assistant, now alone and
Speaker 1: listening to Fourth of July music on the radio. Eventually,
Speaker 1: Richard does arrive, covered in dirt and sweat. He made
Speaker 1: it just in time for the fireworks, and they almost kiss.
Speaker 1: Then we cut to the next time we see him.
Speaker 1: They are a full blown couple at a cafe. It
Speaker 1: appears she still works room as well, and that must
Speaker 1: be offered for everybody else in the office, especially because
Speaker 1: she's still getting calls about other women he's dated. Okay, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: let's work out some dates here the tour case. Because
Speaker 1: I didn't get it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Sabanci, like, what is this? Nothing's explained. I'm irritated.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it. I miss something. I am not
Speaker 2: going back and watching it.
Speaker 1: I'm not rewinding.
Speaker 2: I will not rewind. I will just ask questions.
Speaker 1: So the movie starts in March. Yes, okay, a number
Speaker 1: of months have passed, so how long have they been
Speaker 1: dating by this point.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. A few even if there was
Speaker 2: think about it as you do, I do kind of
Speaker 2: obviously we're watching these, we're streaming these, so there are points.
Speaker 2: So there was obviously a commercial break there, but even
Speaker 2: if I came back from a commercial break, and then
Speaker 2: they're now in this full blown relationship and they don't
Speaker 2: even give you like the subtitle thing at the bottom
Speaker 2: going three months.
Speaker 1: Later or the old thing of the last autumn tree,
Speaker 1: like the leaf falling from the tree. So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: like that, like something like that, yes, something, it's.
Speaker 2: Just like, oh my wait. And then because as we'll
Speaker 2: get into it, like they're talking about, they just move
Speaker 2: on very quickly from here and he freaks out. But
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know if I should not like
Speaker 2: him right now because he's is he freaking out too much?
Speaker 2: I'm freaking out because you guys didn't even kiss thirty
Speaker 2: seconds ago because you had.
Speaker 1: And now yeah, so that's okay.
Speaker 2: And by the way, we don't get to see your
Speaker 2: first kiss. What the hell is going on here? It
Speaker 2: was very strange's first kiss, Like you can't just cut
Speaker 2: that out. That's garbage, garbage.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they ever even shot it. But you're right,
Speaker 1: no first kiss.
Speaker 2: No first kiss, crazy, So we don't know how long.
Speaker 1: They been together, but Beth lets him know that his
Speaker 1: landlord called he'll be raising the rent at the end
Speaker 1: of his lease and was giving him notice. Richard says
Speaker 1: he'll have to move because he can't afford it, but
Speaker 1: Beth's just they move in together. So again, this was the.
Speaker 2: Best girlfriend trying to move in move I have seen,
Speaker 2: because she's the one that got the message right and
Speaker 2: she just throws it out like, Hey, your landlord called.
Speaker 2: You know they're gonna raise about that. She's like He's like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: I guess I'm gonna have to move and she's like, well,
Speaker 2: actually I've already thought about that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: He was so slick on it. I was like, yes, okay,
Speaker 2: now she's a little gangster and now I'm back in
Speaker 2: with Beth like her.
Speaker 1: But this is where not showing us how long the
Speaker 1: relationship changes the movie, because if they've been together for
Speaker 1: two years, he's an If they've been together for two weeks,
Speaker 1: she's crazy crazy. So which which one are we supposed
Speaker 1: to know?
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. I was like, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I should like think he's he's like a jerk or
Speaker 2: she's insane. I don't know, because how long they've been dating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of the two.
Speaker 2: They have been friends for a very long time. Looks
Speaker 2: like she obviously worked with him for a long time.
Speaker 2: But you can tell like he was not into it.
Speaker 2: Now he is, Okay, slow your role, let him take
Speaker 2: his time. Yeah, you're even if it was six months,
Speaker 2: that's kind of a lot to move in together.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. Now. Granted they're supposed to be what
Speaker 1: probably late thirties, so it's not like their young twenties
Speaker 1: kind of things like you do hit an age where
Speaker 1: you kind of you know, I know, you pooper, get
Speaker 1: off the pot, as they would say. Yeah, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I'd like to know how long they
Speaker 1: were dating. So I know it's just so he was
Speaker 1: gangster and I'm back on me. But Richard, of course,
Speaker 1: being a man, laughs are off and asks if they're
Speaker 1: ready for side by side toothbrushes. By the way, I
Speaker 1: don't care what anybody says. The key to a healthy marriage,
Speaker 1: separate bathroom, She says, she is, but he doesn't want
Speaker 1: financial reasons to force him into cohabitation. That's perfectly reasonable,
Speaker 1: and he is saved by the bell when the phone rings.
Speaker 1: It's yet another girl, who he says is someone that
Speaker 1: he works with. But Beth seems rattled. He has too
Speaker 1: many things going on and it's hurting her feelings. She
Speaker 1: leaves an ultimatum, which all men love. He needs to
Speaker 1: figure out what he wants and get back to her.
Speaker 1: We are now back at the monastery. Sister Mary is
Speaker 1: talking a tree and is shocked when she sees Richard
Speaker 1: sitting at his trunk. He's very depressed about Beth and
Speaker 1: came for some advice. Mary tries to consul him about love,
Speaker 1: and Richard sarcastically asked, how would you know. He apologizes
Speaker 1: and she explains that when she you know, I love
Speaker 1: this because they always say this, like I wasn't born
Speaker 1: a nun. And when she was eighteen, before she was
Speaker 1: officially a nun, she met a plumber named Roy. He
Speaker 1: was so nice and cute and all the two of
Speaker 1: them together could have been so happy.
Speaker 2: And I love that actress that played the young Anna.
Speaker 2: She was great, adore. Yeah, the two of them together
Speaker 2: were a stag on TV camera, like a great TV couple.
Speaker 1: She met a plumber named Roy working on the property
Speaker 1: who was so taken by her. He stumbled while trying
Speaker 1: to talk to her, which was just so cute. They
Speaker 1: had a romance, keeping each other company and while they
Speaker 1: did their respective work. She even introduced him to Tree.
Speaker 1: When the plumbing job was finished, Roy and his dad
Speaker 1: were going to move to Florida, but after having just
Speaker 1: one dance and a kiss under Tree, he says he
Speaker 1: will always love her and asks her to move with him.
Speaker 1: She says, even though she loves him, she can't, but
Speaker 1: just as the car leaves, she grabs her satchel and
Speaker 1: runs to meet him. But she can't catch up. And now,
Speaker 1: because she's a slow runner, she never gets a chance to.
Speaker 2: See run and Roy clearly can't hear. I just felt
Speaker 2: like there was no no communication, no reason why he
Speaker 2: couldn't have seen her in the rear view mirror.
Speaker 1: I also don't know she was running to join him.
Speaker 1: I think she just was running after the car, kind
Speaker 1: of like Tom at the beginning. It was mirroring Tom
Speaker 1: saying goodbye to her. Oh yeah, you know, like I
Speaker 1: think it was, yeah.
Speaker 2: Just for like an the moment to say goodbye. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'm sorry that I'm such a whimp and can't leave
Speaker 2: these grounds.
Speaker 1: This is how yeah, exactly terrible. My head is. I
Speaker 1: thought they were going to reintroduce Tom, who she was
Speaker 1: going to fall in love with Tom, and then Tom
Speaker 1: was going to be sent off to the war and killed.
Speaker 2: That's WoT I thought Roy was about to get in
Speaker 2: a car accident.
Speaker 1: Can we both go so dark with these things? I
Speaker 1: thought a media was gonna wipe out the entire nunnery
Speaker 1: just right there. That's what I thought was about to happen. Man,
Speaker 1: we go dark with these things, Sabrida.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was like, because the clear, like continual
Speaker 2: thing that has happened to this poor woman is like
Speaker 2: people being stripped away from her. So I thought, for
Speaker 2: sure thought Roy was goner. Like that's why she was
Speaker 2: running because I didn't know because she said she didn't
Speaker 2: want to go, but that she's running it only to
Speaker 2: see him.
Speaker 1: Corner and a big break, says, I love you. Somebody
Speaker 1: is hit by a bus.
Speaker 2: That is terrible.
Speaker 1: We were once again back in modern day. She had
Speaker 1: she was scared, she didn't want to leave when she knew.
Speaker 1: Richard is shocked to hear she's never left the monastery.
Speaker 1: She warns him, don't listen to your fears, but Richard
Speaker 1: says she doesn't practice what she preaches and kisses her
Speaker 1: on the cheek, and it's a very nice relationship between
Speaker 1: the two of them. Yes, next thing you know, we're
Speaker 1: in a massive snowstorm and the windows smash out the monastery,
Speaker 1: so Sister Lucia is sick and the phones and the
Speaker 1: lights have all gone out. Sister Anthony decides to write
Speaker 1: Richard a letter, which to me, in my head, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, we're having an emergency. I
Speaker 1: better write him a letter. So he gets it a
Speaker 1: week and a half from now. But that's not how
Speaker 1: it turned out. That's what I mean. None of that mattered.
Speaker 1: She'll get to him the next time he comes.
Speaker 2: It's like, it's like, this is your goodbye letter. The
Speaker 2: storm over to you.
Speaker 1: Exactly why the storm. The storm has left us here. Stop.
Speaker 1: We can not have with the tree. Stop. She continues
Speaker 1: her origin story at this point, saying that after Roy left,
Speaker 1: she lost her satchel. She panicked and searchs the house
Speaker 1: for hours. She ran to tree and begged for help.
Speaker 1: She's reprimanded by a younger Sister Lucia to go back
Speaker 1: to the house and pray. Shea says the bag is
Speaker 1: not her comfort, but God is he's in her heart
Speaker 1: and that's what she must find. So they light candles
Speaker 1: and they pray to Saint Anthony, the Saint of lost souls,
Speaker 1: for the return of her bag. During the session, she
Speaker 1: feels at peace, like how she felt with Tree, and
Speaker 1: her nightmares aren't so scary anymore. The bright Star suddenly
Speaker 1: feels okay, and the next day Sister Lucia found the
Speaker 1: satchel in the woods and Anna professes her love to
Speaker 1: the heart. None. That was another very sweet moment. It
Speaker 1: was that day she decided to become a nun herself
Speaker 1: and live a life like Sister Lucia, who she is
Speaker 1: now taking care of. Back at work, Thank god, Richard
Speaker 1: has found a new assistant. Yikes for jes she doesn't
Speaker 1: seem very good at her job. Richard now is Sister
Speaker 1: Anthony's letter and is continuing to read it to Beth.
Speaker 1: Beth is now working for someone else at the office
Speaker 1: and is still waiting for Richard to sack up and
Speaker 1: move in with her. Sister Anthony tells him that the
Speaker 1: tree was totally fine after the snowstorm, which is a relief,
Speaker 1: but she wants to see him again soon. He obliges
Speaker 1: and drives out to the monastery. By the way, he
Speaker 1: must be just racking up the miles on his car
Speaker 1: if he lives in New York City. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a lot of traveling. But he finds out that
Speaker 1: tree is entering the final stage of his life. Sister
Speaker 1: Anthony knows that trees only live about seventy and he
Speaker 1: is definitely older than that. She asked him if he
Speaker 1: has yet found a tree for this year, and he says,
Speaker 1: it's only February, which made me go.
Speaker 2: What, we skipped an entire Christmas? I mean again, I'm
Speaker 2: going I have no idea what the time?
Speaker 1: You know? I don't either.
Speaker 2: Is it over a three year period?
Speaker 1: Is it? I mean, they don't let us know.
Speaker 2: They don't know, had some type of Christmas scene of
Speaker 2: some sort, something like the time has gone and past
Speaker 2: that he did not get the year, this tree at
Speaker 2: all for the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2: Again, it stopped me in my like, wait, I agree,
Speaker 2: And again, I am not rewinding.
Speaker 1: I'm not going backwards. We're not going backwards. That's it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered. No, even if you were around it,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have mattered. They did not let you know
Speaker 1: the timeline of what is happening at all in this
Speaker 1: movie was very which is strange for a flashback movie
Speaker 1: because tiny in a flashback movie is imperative to the
Speaker 1: story exactly.
Speaker 2: You have to keep your audience knowing where they are
Speaker 2: are once they come back from the flashback.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent agree with what is happening. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it would we should have just yes, I agree, get
Speaker 1: your together, Sally Field. Anyway, after much thought, because it's
Speaker 1: Sally Field, Oh god, are you kidding, I would first
Speaker 1: get on bended knee and I'd be like, television, Sally Field,
Speaker 1: I love you so much? What's sorry? Goes up with
Speaker 1: the timeline of the Christmas Tree?
Speaker 2: Can we talk about it?
Speaker 1: She would be like, do you want to talk about
Speaker 1: Forrest Gump? Mi Emmy's I'd be like, nope, no Christmas Tree.
Speaker 2: When you were directing and the editing process, how did
Speaker 2: we not realize that we don't have any footage of
Speaker 2: any of the timeline.
Speaker 1: Is Beth crazy? That's all we need to know? Is
Speaker 1: Beth crazy? Anyway? After yes, is she against it? Or
Speaker 1: is she crazy? Is he an ass? Or is she crazy?
Speaker 1: Because it's one of the two. Anyway, after much thought.
Speaker 1: Sister Anthony wants Richard to take her Tree. She wants
Speaker 1: it to be the best it can be. She needs
Speaker 1: to let Tree move on with grace and dignity. Richard
Speaker 1: cannot believe what he's hearing. He has insurance for the best.
Speaker 1: If Tree is moving on, what about her? Richard wants
Speaker 1: her to seize the day in the same way. She's
Speaker 1: still carrying the satchel, and Richard thinks there's something she's
Speaker 1: not telling him about it. He notices the bag has
Speaker 1: a zipper and it's made from an old pair of trousers,
Speaker 1: and he knows that young Tom could not have made
Speaker 1: that bag. He knows that a part of the story
Speaker 1: is missing, but she gets emotional and says she doesn't know.
Speaker 1: She makes him promise to take Tree. We are now
Speaker 1: back at Beth's. A flustered Richard shows up with no warning,
Speaker 1: and she's getting ready for a date with some dude
Speaker 1: named Evan who we'd all probably hate. And Evan's probably
Speaker 1: the best thing that ever would have happened to me,
Speaker 1: and now she'll never know. He tells her about the
Speaker 1: latest with Tree, and he says he can't do it.
Speaker 1: It's meant too much to Sister Anthony. He admits part
Speaker 1: of him is missing and he's been too frightened to
Speaker 1: love something or someone like the nun loves the tree.
Speaker 1: Just as her date arrives, he says he loves her
Speaker 1: and leaves, just crossing paths with Evan at the door,
Speaker 1: making her look like a real Trollope. Yes, I'm using
Speaker 1: that word, by the way, for the record, she looks
Speaker 1: like a trollop because she has two dates, He's had
Speaker 1: forty two women.
Speaker 2: Call and yet he's still the guy like he's getting
Speaker 2: she's getting caught, and she did not even invite him
Speaker 2: over Nope. And it's like what we I was waiting
Speaker 2: to see, Like, what would you say to that situation?
Speaker 2: He's my brother, he doesn't look.
Speaker 1: Like me nowadays I'd be like, oh, thank you, tell him.
Speaker 2: I'm a plumber, which is funny because that was Roy's
Speaker 2: it did, but it just also kind of like, what
Speaker 2: would you say, Oh that looks bad?
Speaker 1: How about hey, sorry, Evan? I was just getting some
Speaker 1: strange before our date.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just.
Speaker 1: That was pretty gaming.
Speaker 2: Does that work?
Speaker 1: I want it to be relaxed on our date. Thank you, stranger.
Speaker 1: That could have worked, Probably not it's.
Speaker 2: Gotta happen with like bumble stuff all the time. It's
Speaker 2: gotta happen like a brunch day on a Sunday and
Speaker 2: afternoon date and a date dating anything. There's guys out
Speaker 2: there and girls out there that play the game.
Speaker 1: Back, Thank God, Please don't judging.
Speaker 2: I just don't want to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not judging either. I just don't. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want to play the game. I'm not judging the game.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to play it. Later, Richard's at
Speaker 1: his place and Beth shows up. She wasn't into Evan.
Speaker 1: She showed up with some wine. They cheers and kiss
Speaker 1: to accepting Tree as the new Rockefeller Tree. The next day,
Speaker 1: Richard's cruz removing Tree as the Nun watches on, Sister
Speaker 1: Anthony and her friends decide to give it a moment
Speaker 1: of prayer, singing and spraying it with holy water, which
Speaker 1: is really awesome. Even the construction workers remove their hard hats.
Speaker 1: It was a very sweet scene. Once I did too,
Speaker 1: the singing together, it was really great. Once done, Sister
Speaker 1: Anthony decides she'll stay with Tree, even if it takes
Speaker 1: a few days to remove him. Properly, so Beth joins her.
Speaker 1: As each branch is packed for transportation and the final
Speaker 1: cut is prepared, we hear a chainsaw and Sister Anthony
Speaker 1: and he breaks down into tears. As it's finally cut
Speaker 1: down and placed on a flatbed. Richard escorts her to
Speaker 1: the trunk and she feels around to learn that he
Speaker 1: was seventy five feet. I think that also, you also
Speaker 1: have to figure out how I think that's the age too,
Speaker 1: he's seventy five years old.
Speaker 2: Well to tell how old a tree rings?
Speaker 1: The rings I think she counted the rings. It was
Speaker 1: seventy years old. Yeah, yeah, something like that. She has
Speaker 1: what was the tallest tree ever? The record was ninety
Speaker 1: eight feet, but she knows even if he's not the
Speaker 1: tallest ever, he is the most beautiful. Everyone agrees. Sister
Speaker 1: Anthony says one last goodbye, crying into one of his branches,
Speaker 1: and walks home alone. I've never felt so much for
Speaker 1: a tree in my life. We returned to the monastery.
Speaker 1: All the nuns are rushing to a van. They're traveling
Speaker 1: to the city as quote unquote guests of honor for trees,
Speaker 1: big lighting ceremony, But Sister Anthony has decided not to go.
Speaker 1: Just then, Richard drives up in a fancy I love this.
Speaker 1: Richard drives up in a fancy sports car that's so
Speaker 1: expensive it's probably the reason he can't afford that rent increase.
Speaker 1: But he also comes in pissed, like he's like I'm
Speaker 1: getting her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which was kind of fun. But he has a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do, but nothing is more important
Speaker 1: than what he has to do at Brush Creek. He's
Speaker 1: there to convince Sister Anthony to attend. Richard tells her
Speaker 1: how important she's been to him. She's taught him about
Speaker 1: love and following his heart. She needs to now see
Speaker 1: Tree being the best he could be. He says he
Speaker 1: will be there for her and won't let go of
Speaker 1: her hand. He begs her to trust him, crying again,
Speaker 1: and his words, of course, trigger a new flashback. She
Speaker 1: took a lot of acids, so she's been flashing a
Speaker 1: lot lately. She now sees her father. She remembers standing
Speaker 1: in line for soup during the depression. She was scared.
Speaker 1: He was the one who made the bag, and the
Speaker 1: star she's been seeing in her dreams is starting to
Speaker 1: make sense. With that she decides to get in Richard's
Speaker 1: car and go to the Big City. It's the night
Speaker 1: of the Big Rockefeller set her ceremony, and Richard is
Speaker 1: taking care of a very nervous Sister Anthony. They walk
Speaker 1: through the crowd and Sister Anthony starts to see moments
Speaker 1: of her childhood and her dad. She figures out she
Speaker 1: was at the lighting ceremony before with her dad as
Speaker 1: a kid. The star she always saw on her nightwear
Speaker 1: was from the star from the tree from Rockeveller Center
Speaker 1: talk about Kismet. Her dad didn't leave her. He was
Speaker 1: unfortunately very sick and he died, and this was an
Speaker 1: important memory that she had just unlocked. And it took
Speaker 1: her to see the tree, and now it's her tree.
Speaker 1: It's come full circle. She wishes Richard a merry Christmas
Speaker 1: and yells Merry Christmas to tree. Beth joins them and
Speaker 1: we hear reading of a new letter that she sent.
Speaker 1: We pull away from a now illuminated tree becoming a
Speaker 1: simple moment of beauty, and she is very proud. End
Speaker 1: of movie. You didn't cry it all, not one, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I know. Didn't you cry during Johnny's tsunami
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's why it was weird. I don't know why
Speaker 2: if I've just in a mood. I mean, like, especially
Speaker 2: Christmas movies, they usually really get me, no matter how
Speaker 2: cheesy or corny the storyline is, they usually always get me.
Speaker 2: But this didn't. I did really love the the flashbacks.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I did like that, but you know, just to I
Speaker 2: didn't cry. I thought I would, but it just did
Speaker 2: not happen to me. It couldn't get there emotionally.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, maybe a hot take
Speaker 1: of this movie. It didn't feel like a Christmas movie
Speaker 1: to me at all at all. I get what they
Speaker 1: were doing, and I think the idea of how the
Speaker 1: like a Christmas movie based around the tree at Rockefeller
Speaker 1: Center and how we get it and giving that wonderful
Speaker 1: idea that's a cool idea didn't feel like a Christmas
Speaker 1: movie to me. It felt like a play, which again
Speaker 1: I'm down for. I dig a nice quiet movie. Occasionally
Speaker 1: I two actors sitting in a room and talking for
Speaker 1: two hours.
Speaker 2: Assume this is going to be based all around the holidays,
Speaker 2: and it's yeah, which I knew it couldn't have been,
Speaker 2: because you know, being that we were at a monastery
Speaker 2: like that would have been a lot more religious. This
Speaker 2: was this absolutely did go to a religious level that
Speaker 2: we have not seen on any of the movie at
Speaker 2: this point. Talking about her father and the father that's
Speaker 2: been watching.
Speaker 1: Her, and the tree is clearly God or supposed to
Speaker 1: be faith or your connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well they even have the symbolism of the Son of
Speaker 1: God because she now has the offshoot of the tree
Speaker 1: that she's going to reap again. Yes, yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: I mean, there's all this kind of sim you know,
Speaker 1: religious symbolism in this movie. Definitely, totally so.
Speaker 2: But I knew that being the case, it wasn't going
Speaker 2: to be like Christmas Tree Santa Claus, because that Christmas
Speaker 2: Tree goes to Santa Claus. It does not go to
Speaker 2: the Birth of Jesus, right, you know, I knew we
Speaker 2: weren't really going to go there.
Speaker 1: Do you know where they actually think the Christmas Tree
Speaker 1: came from. No, So in ancient Egypt, on the longest
Speaker 1: day of the year, people would bring in one big
Speaker 1: palm fron into their home to celebrate the longest day
Speaker 1: of the year. So they think that is actually the
Speaker 1: origin of the Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, wouldn't that be in July for us?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, the dates are all right. I mean everything
Speaker 1: else has been moved around for the Pagan calendar. But yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all over the place.
Speaker 2: But yes, okay, so well, yeah I did end up not.
Speaker 2: I just I didn't not like this movie in any sort.
Speaker 1: I I double negative. That's tricky. What do you I
Speaker 1: don't know what you meant.
Speaker 2: I did it, I wasn't. I I liked it, but
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't love it, right, and I definitely
Speaker 2: didn't hate it.
Speaker 1: Right. Okay, I kind of feel the same way. But
Speaker 1: let's do let's see what some other people thought, and
Speaker 1: let's do some real reviews. And I think I have
Speaker 1: the five star. This is from Karen Way to Go.
Speaker 2: Karen.
Speaker 1: Karen s has a five star. She said, when the
Speaker 1: Christmas Tree was on, the phone rang it was my mother.
Speaker 1: I had picked up the phone without really thinking. All
Speaker 1: I said was that the best Christmas movie ever was
Speaker 1: on and I could not talk right then and hug
Speaker 1: up the phone, not answering again until the show ended.
Speaker 1: I have a big flowering crab that grows in front
Speaker 1: of my house that gives me so much pleasure during
Speaker 1: every season, and I sometimes think of it as tree.
Speaker 1: I agree with others. Why do they not replay this
Speaker 1: movie on TV? Five stars?
Speaker 2: All right? So what do you got related to that?
Speaker 1: It struck her right where she lived.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's in that whole wheelhouse of she is talking
Speaker 2: to plants. Awesome, I talked to plants. I have a
Speaker 2: really good friend who like sings to them. She puts
Speaker 2: good music out to her. I'll tell you she does
Speaker 2: have quite giant vegetables like bell peppers and cucumbers.
Speaker 1: Or is that an aphemism?
Speaker 2: If I ever meet her, I knew you were gonna
Speaker 2: say that. I'm like, he's gonna say I didn't want so.
Speaker 2: I tried to put in bell peppers first.
Speaker 1: I want to meet Sabrina's fram with the big vegetables.
Speaker 2: But she really does she puts out like I feel
Speaker 2: like she puts out. I don't know. There's a certain
Speaker 2: she's got big vegetables and she puts out, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: oh my god. All right, moving on to this one
Speaker 2: star getting will out of the gutter here all right?
Speaker 2: This one star review is from Peter J. It's about
Speaker 2: a nun and a tree and a guy. Who befriends
Speaker 2: them both. Not much more to it than that. Kind
Speaker 2: of true, Peter.
Speaker 1: It's kind of true, Peter.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't give it one star, but it's kind of true, Peter,
Speaker 2: kind of true.
Speaker 1: Well, we are now to the wonderful portion of a
Speaker 1: program that is, of course Sabrina's favorite every week, which
Speaker 1: is our feature. We do get a bit of a
Speaker 1: break today though, because your your nemesis producer Jensen Is
Speaker 1: he took the week off. He is is a bit
Speaker 1: under the week he did. So we have a new
Speaker 1: a new crew that's going to be helping us out
Speaker 1: this week. And this feature is entitled Him or Her
Speaker 1: So IMDb incorrectly credited comedian Colin Quinn as Tom in
Speaker 1: this movie when it's actually just a different actor with
Speaker 1: the same name and one extra L in their name.
Speaker 1: To commemorate this mistake, we will get the born government
Speaker 1: names of five famous people that are coincidentally also the
Speaker 1: names of another celebrity. We have to figure out what
Speaker 1: name they change their name to. If we get three
Speaker 1: out of five, we win. Does it mean like what
Speaker 1: the other Michael Jordan changed their name to something else
Speaker 1: and then have become famous? So it's like, what did
Speaker 1: the other Michael Jordan change their name to? Is that
Speaker 1: what it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Michael B. Jordan, right, Okay, well I.
Speaker 1: Think Sabrina might have already gotten the first one. So
Speaker 1: let's see if we're right. So the first min so
Speaker 1: is Michael Jordan, then Michael B. Jordan. Correct, Okay, so
Speaker 1: that's one. The so number two then is Kate Hudson.
Speaker 1: So there's a second Kate Hudson.
Speaker 2: I think I don't know why I want to say
Speaker 2: Katie Hudson.
Speaker 1: Really, I was gonna say Kadie, maybe Katie Holmes, but no,
Speaker 1: she would be before, wouldn't she Kate? Who would come
Speaker 1: after Kate Hudson? Kate, I don't know, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Katie Holmes.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're both incorrect.
Speaker 1: It's Katie Perry.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't know.
Speaker 1: So how the hell are we supposed to just guess
Speaker 1: random people? This is the worst game ever?
Speaker 2: Well, like, if you know, I mean, because I know
Speaker 2: of Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan's I'm right, But that's an easy one. This one
Speaker 1: Kate Hudson. I didn't know that was changed.
Speaker 2: So Katie Perry's original name name was Kate Hudson.
Speaker 1: Okay. The other Albert Einstein. Oh, I know this. It's
Speaker 1: Albert Brooks. Okay, who is he Albert Einstein?
Speaker 2: No Brooks.
Speaker 1: Oh, Albert Brooks is a is an actor, huge actor.
Speaker 1: He was in Defending Your Life and I mean a
Speaker 1: thousand different things. You'd recognize him if you saw him.
Speaker 1: Am I right? Is it Albert Brooks?
Speaker 2: Yes, you're correct.
Speaker 1: The other Michael Douglas. I'd say Kirk Douglas, but that's
Speaker 1: just his dad. Yeah, Michael, maybe it is, though maybe
Speaker 1: he's a junior.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe Kirk.
Speaker 1: I don't think k I'm gonna go with that, Okay,
Speaker 1: Michael Douglas. She's gonna say Kirk Douglas. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan. No, see Michael Douglas would go to
Speaker 1: Oh God, I don't know. I don't know who it is.
Speaker 2: It's okay, it's Michael Keaton. Oh whoa Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And finally our last one is we mercifully come to
Speaker 1: the end of this difficult game. This might as well
Speaker 1: have all just been math. I know the other Elizabeth Mitchell,
Speaker 1: an actress from Lost. I'm going to say Elizabeth Moss.
Speaker 2: I have no idea it's Elizabeth Banks. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 2: you guys bought I don't know who. Yeah, we lost.
Speaker 1: This is a terrible game, whatever happened, and knowing what
Speaker 1: a turkey is and bowling things and my god, oh
Speaker 1: my okay, well.
Speaker 2: There we go school. I do love knowing that Kate
Speaker 2: Hudson was actually Ka Perry.
Speaker 1: There you go, and Elizabeth Mitchell was actually Michael Douglas.
Speaker 1: What are the chances of that? Can we do some sabrinas.
Speaker 2: We can? So I don't actually have a ton here
Speaker 2: that we didn't already kind of go over. The first
Speaker 2: one was what is this man's COVID gold? And why
Speaker 2: isn't he protecting anyone else from?
Speaker 1: Why is he trying to kill us?
Speaker 2: There was just to meet. Their relationship kind of had
Speaker 2: a lot like whenever they were on screen him in Beth,
Speaker 2: their relationship had a lot of quirky what is going on?
Speaker 2: What can't really I couldn't really figure out the dynamic
Speaker 2: they made it seem by the time they were actually
Speaker 2: dating that they had kind of date. Like when she
Speaker 2: was giving him the ultimatum, it seemed like she had
Speaker 2: she was giving him that he had known that she
Speaker 2: was dating or like interested in him for a long time,
Speaker 2: where it wasn't played that way earlier in the movie. No,
Speaker 2: but she comes in when he's on the phone and
Speaker 2: she's interrupting him so much. I want it. I felt
Speaker 2: like when Monroe gets comes into the room and needs
Speaker 2: like a glass of water and I'm on the phone,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I wanted him to just like
Speaker 2: pull his phone back and be like, who.
Speaker 1: About the same thing.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. That I was very upset again about
Speaker 2: that first kiss. Then there was this weird from the
Speaker 2: They come back from you know, commercial break or whatever,
Speaker 2: and they're now in a full blown relationship at this
Speaker 2: cafe eating breakfast together. She comes out of nowhere, then
Speaker 2: sits and you can tell they had already been eating.
Speaker 2: And then the bill comes and then he's looking around
Speaker 2: for his wallet. She then pays the bill, which I
Speaker 2: was like, she just pays the bill. He totally thinks
Speaker 2: that's normal. They get up and not that that's bad.
Speaker 2: It's not that girls can't pay, but it's just like
Speaker 2: it was that. And then like she had the key
Speaker 2: his key for his apartment. Yeah, he didn't even have
Speaker 2: this weird Yeah, he didn't have his key. He kept
Speaker 2: like looking for anything. It was this weird dynamic that
Speaker 2: that that scene. I kind of was like, I don't
Speaker 2: understand and again at that point and to figure out
Speaker 2: how long they've now been together. But that was just
Speaker 2: like a really frustrating part for me the movie. I
Speaker 2: couldn't get over it. And then they did another thing
Speaker 2: which I hate when people do. It's not just if
Speaker 2: I'm toasting, if someone else toasts, when they go, you know,
Speaker 2: cheers to something, you know, cheers to us, and then
Speaker 2: the other person they're cheersing does a different cheers. So
Speaker 2: he said, or she said, cheers to Sister Anthony. You know,
Speaker 2: he had talked to her about getting to use the tree.
Speaker 2: She says, cheers to Sister Anthony, and he goes cheers
Speaker 2: to tree. I was like, can you just that job
Speaker 2: irritated me. But I hate when people do that. If
Speaker 2: someone does a toast, oh let them have the toast, and.
Speaker 1: You can't wait to do that too. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to do That's gonna be my new favorite thing is
Speaker 1: you and I if we ever cheers together, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna do something just totally random. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: So bothersome their relationship was so weird start to beginning.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm meaning is at the end of the
Speaker 2: movie when they're now together. Even then, they've got these weird,
Speaker 2: little dynamic things that I'm like, this relationship isn't The
Speaker 2: trees can put up in Rockefeller, but this tree, this
Speaker 2: relationship is doomed. We are chopping it down. It's been
Speaker 2: three months after Christmas.
Speaker 1: It's so strange.
Speaker 2: It's gonna go to Valentine's Day and then boom.
Speaker 1: And we're done, and we're done. Well, he's got so
Speaker 1: many other dates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll move on anyway. That was it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well those are good, and I agree the not
Speaker 1: knowing the timeline of the relationship. It was a strange relationship.
Speaker 1: I didn't get tooting for you exactly. I don't care
Speaker 1: for this at all. Anyway, We now have to rate
Speaker 1: the movie, and it's one out of ten, of course,
Speaker 1: one being the worst, ten being the best. Some day
Speaker 1: we're gonna switch that up, but for right now we'll
Speaker 1: keep one being the worst and ten being the best.
Speaker 1: This week, we've got a number of options. How about
Speaker 1: one out of ten trees named tree, one out of
Speaker 1: ten terrible Rockefeller HR departments, one out of ten cures
Speaker 1: for the plague one out of ten, Plumber Loves one
Speaker 1: out of ten, Embracing of bark one out of ten,
Speaker 1: Jerk Grove Christmas trees one at tend, slow running nuns
Speaker 1: one out of tend, some dudes named Evan or one
Speaker 1: out of ten tree prayers. I'd like to add one
Speaker 1: out of ten different cheers. What would you like, Sabrina?
Speaker 1: You pick this week?
Speaker 2: Oh man, I think I'm gonna do one out of
Speaker 2: ten cures for the plague.
Speaker 1: You got it. I think you went first last time.
Speaker 1: I can't. Okay, I did, so I will go first
Speaker 1: this time. I feel like you. This movie had a
Speaker 1: lot of holes in it. Time wise, it made no sense.
Speaker 1: The acting was wonderful. Obviously Sally Field directed the movie.
Speaker 1: I get what they were going for.
Speaker 2: It did not.
Speaker 1: It did itself a disservice bike being saying it was
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie, if that makes sense, because you're expecting
Speaker 1: one thing. You know, if somebody tells you I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you a donut and then they give you
Speaker 1: a bagel, even if it's the best bagel you've ever had,
Speaker 1: you were expecting a donut. Yees, So I was expecting
Speaker 1: a big Christmas movie, and it just kind of wasn't
Speaker 1: that being said, I didn't hate it. I found myself
Speaker 1: openly crying at one scene. So I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: six point five cures for the plague for this movie,
Speaker 1: and I think that's fair. Frankly, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually kind of high for you when you're
Speaker 2: when you seem to be in the middle you.
Speaker 1: I like the acting.
Speaker 2: I liked the acting was really good. I liked the flashbacks.
Speaker 2: Those were probably my favorite party and they looked nice.
Speaker 1: They were all kind of sepi atone they all looked yes.
Speaker 2: It was easy to tell that that's what we were doing.
Speaker 2: One of my supreacies I just popped in my head
Speaker 2: the little girl that was the Bully. She did look
Speaker 2: like she belonged in that era at all.
Speaker 1: She wasn't dressed bull the nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah she did. She did not fit. So that was
Speaker 2: actually my first one. It's some of the popped up goings.
Speaker 2: Why this girl where she?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: I did like the I liked the flashbacks and the storytelling.
Speaker 2: Although it was kind of funny to think, first of all,
Speaker 2: writing a letter in general is so weird in this
Speaker 2: point where we are here in twenty twenty four. But uh,
Speaker 2: even that, I thought that was like a different way
Speaker 2: than her just telling him the story face to face
Speaker 2: to be able to kind of go back and get
Speaker 2: some more backstory. So all of that made me like
Speaker 2: it the movie a lot. I just really didn't, I guess,
Speaker 2: find that connection that I was hoping to get. And
Speaker 2: like I said, I'm a big Christmas story lover, and
Speaker 2: so I think it was the lack of even if
Speaker 2: we went through the Christmas season and they didn't get
Speaker 2: the tree, we didn't see what season it was at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was strange.
Speaker 2: It was not until the very final scenes and I
Speaker 2: was looking for Christmas for the ninety two minutes that
Speaker 2: I watched that movie. Yeah. That being said, I'm going
Speaker 2: to give it six cures for the plague for me
Speaker 2: and hopefully he gets some good antibiotics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get him something to help him out.
Speaker 2: Get him hell out.
Speaker 1: So we're right in the same area there. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us as we watched The Christmas Tree.
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