Gift of the Magi

2010

Drama / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 21%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21%
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 563 563

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Plot summary

A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.

Director

Lisa Mulcahy Photo
Lisa Mulcahy

Top cast

Marla Sokoloff Photo
Marla Sokoloff as Della Young
Mark Webber Photo
Mark Webber as Jim Young
Roisin Kiely Photo
Roisin Kiely as Cinema Couple
Orla Tobin Photo
Orla Tobin as Stephanie
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785.28 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 30
1.57 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 59

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 5 / 10

Already Have It

O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the two best-known secular Christmas stories -- the other is, of course, Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". It is also much harder to translate to a screen feature, since O. Henry specialized in short stories with 'snapper' endings -- usually sardonic jokes on their protagonists.This TV movie makes a fair try at filling up the spaces by updating the story -- modern urban women no longer sell their hair to wig makers, and certainly not to buy fobs for their husbands' pocket watches, since men mostly don't use pocket watches these days.But the poor we always have with us, so this story is about a husband who wants to buy a good lens for his wife's beloved heirloom camera while she wants to buy an original steering wheel for the vintage car he is restoring -- these stand in for the original gifts. And the leads, Marla Sokoloff and Mark Webber, are handsome and loving.But the story telling soon gets lost in a maze of secondary characters who are used to fill up the time, and while Ms. Sokoloff continues as earnest throughout, Webber turns into an inconsiderate boor by the time the story is heading towards the lap.Over all, it's a good effort, and the casting and direction are good, but the script needs a bit of work and focus, making this simply watchable. A pity.
Reviewed by Prismark10 4 / 10

Secret gifts

The Gift of the Magi is a short story about a young married couple with not much money and how they deal with buying secret Christmas gifts for each other.The television film has been updated and expanded. Della (Marla Sokoloff) and Jim (Mark Webber) are newlyweds and desperately in love with a close circle of friends and do their best to help each other out in their working class community.The couple are financially stretched after a theft and although promising each other not to buy Christmas presents, Della wants to buy a steering wheel for his classic car that he is restoring and takes a part time job to earn enough money for the gift but does not tell her husband.Jim is saving money to buy Della a lens for her Nikon camera but he is suspicious of her spending time away from him on that secret part time job and then sees her with another man (her boss at the second job) and he leaves her.As Christmas approaches, their friends hatch a plan to get them back together when they realise what has actually happened.This is a rather saccharine family film with many sweet natured characters. The working class setting is non existent but the film has enough substance to make it watchable.
Reviewed by athompsonblue 6 / 10

Too Severe a Conflict

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