A Holiday Spectacular

2022

Comedy / Drama / Romance

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 85% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85%
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 1822 1.8K

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Plot summary

In 1958, Maggie is an heiress from Philadelphia who puts her high-society wedding plans on hold in order to sneak to New York City and make her secret dream of dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall come true.

Director

John Putch Photo
John Putch

Top cast

Eve Plumb Photo
Eve Plumb as Harriet
Tiffany Denise Hobbs Photo
Tiffany Denise Hobbs as Alice
Ann-Margret Photo
Ann-Margret as Grandma Margret
Ruth Gottschall Photo
Ruth Gottschall as Rose
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764.13 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
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1.38 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kwclients 6 / 10

Keeping with the times would have been best.

I was looking forward to watching this movie having a dance background but you can't rewrite history and the first non-black was actually asian and a black Rockette wasn't until 1987-88. We can't make movies politically correct to appease the present times but just reflecting the correct times is fine. I can appreciate a good movie that keeps to truth. I love Ann-Margret. I can't call this a spoiler, the promo movie photo I didn't see first and I would have skipped it with looking at the cast members. I gave high stars is because I grew up with Ann and loved her. You can be non-white and want history portrayed correctly even if a feel-good movie. If anything it only made me think of the times and how it wasn't like this as the movie portrays.
Reviewed by VetteRanger 8 / 10

Breaking the mold - sort of

Going for a period piece like this breaks the mold of the average Hallmark Christmas romance, but they still couldn't QUITE get away from the normal tropes. Both the romantic leads needed to "follow their dream". There was the typical split from the rich boyfriend for true love, and the always present crisis with the new boyfriend to be wrapped up in the last seven minutes.Still, it was wonderful to see Ann-Margret. One never knows when she'll stop accepting roles, and she came off a LOT better here than Marlo Thomas did in her appearance a few weeks ago.The Rockettes looked great. As others have mentioned, the Rockettes didn't integrate until 1988, and to this day only have two black dancers on the team. I'll give them a minor break in that they had to show the real Rockettes in the performance scenes, and they weren't going to ask two members to sit it out, so they kind of needed to show them in the acting scenes, or that would have stuck out.My wife was more impressed with the movie than I, sort of a surprise with all those great looking women (and legs!) on display. :-)She puts it in the "Watch again" category, while I put it in the "Glad I saw it but that's it category". :-)
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