Sweet, likable, old-timey, coming-of-age, Christmas-adjacent film. Runs long, but there's a lot packed in there, and the script keeps things moving. I wasn't bored. Performances are solid if not electric.
This film seems to have something it wants to say about alcohol use and misuse - the topic comes up like a thousand times, but it never comes to any conclusion. It simply observes the (seemingly) large and influential role that drinking (for coping, for grief, before bed, during the…