Most animated films have some magical or science fiction base to the storyline, but there are a few that wholly grounded in reality and make very good tales that the whole family can watch. This film falls into that second category and it's a wonderful story about how far someone will go for redemption. Each of the characters start out with their own problems but as the story progresses each one realizes that the issues that have kept them from going home aren't as monumental as they thought, but don't we all come to that realization at some point in our lives.
When three homeless people discover an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve, they band together to return the infant to its parents and during the journey they learn that the term family goes far beyond parents and siblings. The hardships that are placed on the three main characters are sometimes disturbing and hard to watch but as the story continues each of them grows and comes to terms with their past actions. The extreme situations that placed on the characters are completely within the realm of possibility and that just makes them more lovable to know that they could be just as human as any of us. Since the characters are very realistic you could almost believe that this was based on some real life story, with a little bit of Christmas magic to make things a little more interesting.
This is a nice film that can be watched by the whole family, unfortunately there is no English soundtrack so everyone would have to watch it with the subtitles. That being said, this is an enjoyable story that brings the Christmas spirit home and seeing how the different sub-characters treat the little band of do-gooders, you get the feeling that there maybe some good in the world after all.
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