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2016 · tv-movie · romance · drama · fantasy

A Wish for Christmas

Directed by Christie Will Wolf1h 24m2016

ElsewhereIMDb6.05k

cosy
brisk
gentle
redemptive
tender
intimate

Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle tv-movie / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

How every film is hand-scored →

Sara Shaw is the type of woman who prefers to sit on the sidelines at work, but when her big idea for a Christmas initiative is stolen, she makes a wish to Santa that she'll finally have the courage to stand up for herself. Santa grants her wish, but only gives her 48 hours. As the clock ticks, Sara will discover how to channel the Christmas magic and speak her mind all on her own.

Our read · A Wish for Christmas (2016) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded tv-movie · romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast

Lacey Chabert Paul Greene Andrea Brooks Colleen Wheeler Kendall Cross

Where the cast leads

actor path

A Royal Christmassame tone A Christmas Melodysame tone Haul Out the Hollysame tone

Paul Greene

actor path

A Christmas Detoursame tone Autumn and the Black Jaguaradjacent

Andrea Brooks

actor path

Date with Lovesame tone Independence Daysasternew register

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The shape of A Wish for Christmas

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want a light Hallmark-style Christmas story about finding courage with a little magic.”

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 2/5breezes by

Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — Skip if you want something edgy or can't stand sweet holiday wish-fulfillment.

If A Wish for Christmas is your film

The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

fun family Christmas magic and wish elements

The Holiday (2006)

warm holiday romance and second chances

(if you dislike romantic ensembles)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

classic Christmas belief and wish come true

(unless black and white feels old)

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy

Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic

Intensity · GentleExtreme

Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal

Hope · NihilisticRedemptive

Stakes · IntimateEpic

Humour · NoneBroad

Reality · GroundedFantastical

Density · SparseTwisty

Warmth · ColdTender

Auteur · TransparentSignature

Nearest by DNA