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With: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Emma Thompson, Rebecca Root, Lydia Leonard, Patti LuPone, Madison Ingoldsby, Ingrid Oliver, Rob Delaney, Peter Serafinowicz
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Written by: Emma Thompson, Bryony Kimmings, based on a story by Emma Thompson, Greg Wise, and on a song by George Michael
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Directed by: Paul Feig
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and sexual content
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Running Time: 103
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Date: 11/08/2019
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Elf Worth
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Opening to poor reviews in theaters, Last Christmas deserves a second look. Aspiring singer Kate (Emilia Clarke) works as an "elf" in a year-round Christmas shop (run by Michelle Yeoh), and her life is a wreck. She can't hang onto a place to live, and is loathe to go back and stay with her controlling mother (Emma Thompson). But then she meets Tom (Henry Golding), and everything changes. As they spend time together, she learns to "look up" and see things in the city that she has never noticed before, and learns to think of others. While the story looks romantic, and it is in some ways, romance is not actually what this movie is about. Various songs by George Michael and Wham! pepper the soundtrack in appropriate ways, especially Wham!'s radio-friendly 1984 tune "Last Christmas," which gives a clue to the movie's real motivation. Michelle Yeoh is hilarious as the Christmas shop owner, who makes Kate call her "Santa."
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