Here Comes a 'Spirited' Christmas
Spirited inverts the tropes of the holiday musical genre to update an age-old tale for 2022. It's a paean to those who make grand spectacles possible.

In 1998, on the eve of a massive storm, a young boy witnessed a murder and became a fugitive. 25 years later, on the night of an equally large storm, a woman accidentally found a channel to communicate with the boy-right before the boy witnessed the murder. The woman manages to prevent the boy's death, but with another unexpected effect.
Spirited inverts the tropes of the holiday musical genre to update an age-old tale for 2022. It's a paean to those who make grand spectacles possible.
We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.
What can I say about this Will Ferrell/Julia Louis-Dreyfus-led “dramedy?” Well, the comedy part of Downhill is completely non-existent. And I should have known that the film was a flop when I walked into an empty theater at a prime time on a Friday night.
Wacky antics ensue when a 100-year-old Jewish man wakes up from a pickled hibernation in the modern world.