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A Midnight Clear (1992)
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"I saw Christmas decorations in a storefront Sunday, so I guess it’s already time to break out the holiday movies. And it’s evidently time for distributors to release holiday fare to theaters, even if Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), which hits theaters this Friday, isn’t exactly the latest crowd-pleasing installment of the Santa Clause franchise. In fact, with such ingredients as estrangement, mental illness, alcoholism and cancer, it doesn’t seem like a very happy holidays kind of film. Even if it is actually a comedy. But then how many holiday movies are completely void of depressing themes and scenes? I’m sure to have grown up thinking more about the homeless, suicide and family dysfunction from films set at Christmas and Thanksgiving than I did thinking about the happiness that comes with these holidays. One of the most tearjerking moments for me as a kid was certainly seeing Mickey Mouse crying over his dead son in
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"I'm not sure I can improve on the All Movie Guide review. This is an excellent film, very well adapted from the excellent novel by William Wharton. Intelligent, subtly funny, heartbreaking, thought-provoking; well-chosen cast. WWII is sometimes thought of as the "good" war, but in reality, as the film points out, all war encompasses evil, horror and stupidity. "
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