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Genre | Family |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled |
Contributor | Jane Seymour, Roma Downey, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 27 minutes |
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Buttons: A Christmas Tale is the magical, musical story that shows believing can be the greatest gift of all. Follow the heartwarming journey of two orphan girls whose only wish is to find a home for Christmas. With a little help from their guardian angels (screen legends Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury), they discover that miracles really can happen when you find the power to believe. From director Tim Janis, this inspiring holiday film for the whole family features an all-star cast including Jane Seymour, Roma Downey and Abigail Spencer, and is narrated by Kate Winslet and Robert Redford, with a special song by Sir Paul McCartney.
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Dick Van Dyke as The Angel |
Abigail Spencer as Annabelle |
Angela Lansbury as Rose |
Ioan Gruffudd as William Kingsley |
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Buttons: A Christmas Tale is the magical, musical story that shows believing can be the greatest gift of all. Follow the heartwarming journey of two orphan girls whose only wish is to find a home for Christmas. With a little help from their guardian angels (screen legends Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury), they discover that miracles really can happen when you find the power to believe. From director Tim Janis, this inspiring holiday film for the whole family features an all-star cast including Jane Seymour, Roma Downey and Abigail Spencer, and is narrated by Kate Winslet and Robert Redford.
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- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.19 Ounces
- Item model number : D59209575D
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 27 minutes
- Release date : August 11, 2020
- Actors : Angela Lansbury, Jane Seymour, Dick Van Dyke, Roma Downey
- Studio : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B07YMHC35K
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #28,568 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #17,777 in DVD
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For many years my love of God, Source, or whatever one wishes to call the great Architect of our Universe, led me to love all life ever more fully. In this growing love of all life, there appeared those hurts and bruises that we all experience at some point, and slowly without my realizing it I created a protective wall around my heart. As I learned more and more of the great creative beauty that humans are potentially capable of, the desire grew to add to that great creative chorus of beauty. And so I found myself like the Lion in The Wizard of Oz – believing: I do believe, I do, I do, I do believe. But something was missing. My heart was still not fully engaged and that has kept me somewhat isolated and small, blocking my more adventuresome dreams from materializing.
And so, this wonderful movie reminded me of the next step. Belief is a step towards moving into the love and creative flow of God, but it takes the heart to give those dreams life. I not only need to believe, I need to feel it throughout my whole being, and those feelings of bliss, love, harmony, compassion, and more, are what gives my dreams, my beliefs, life.
Can I accept the changes that come into my life and know and trust that they are for a loving and benevolent purpose – can I know and feel it? Or, shall I coat those changes with a layer of fear and resistance creating a totally different outcome. Trust and acceptance or fear and resistance – very different energies that through choice gets applied in my life – one brings infinite love and support and the other loneliness and isolation. Only I can choose how I’ll respond to what life hands me….
So thank you Tim Janis for reminding us that we are not alone, that help surrounds us at all times and with free will we choose whether we shall avail ourselves of that help or not.
The technical problems:
On technical, filmmaking merits alone, this film fails miserably. The plot wasn't much better. In fact, except for the acting, this entire film was a poorly made, film school effort.
THE AUDIO: I can only hope the sound crew – both production and post-production – were hitting the eggnog. Hard. More than one scene had mismatched audio within the *dialog*, making it hard to ignore that some of the dialog was dubbed in post. (Possibly using can-and-string-telephone technology.) Ambient sound (birds and crickets in outdoor scenes, for example) would sometimes be so loud as to be distracting. (And birds at night? I'm pretty sure you didn't intend bats in a Christmas movie, and if you did, bats don't sound like larks. Just sayin'.)
THE VIDEO: Then there were the *very* distracting out-of-sync audio moments. Some were so bad, the editor actually slowed down the video to match! (It's a technique that can be used to "fix" audio sync problems, but it should be used sparingly in an emergency, and only when the issue isn't discernible on first viewing.) And speaking of sparingly, too often, scenes could've used some judicious snipping. The editor let some shots linger waaaaay too long, as to make the character seem ... off, and break the mood. There was one shot that was held so long on Mr. Van Dyke smiling, that it became uncomfortable!
SETS and COSTUMES: I dunno', but if that cotton mill is still around, it looks like a nice place for part-time work. Well-lit, sparkling clean, but with a lovely rustic English charm. WHAT THE HECK?! Not a mark on the floors, mostly clean-scrubbed children with only the occasional well-placed smudge on their faces. Your average middle-class, suburban kids are dirtier than this lot. Speaking of English charm – there was zero sense of place. Most of the time, we seemed to be in England. I had to keep telling myself that this was supposed to be taking place in the U.S. They even had to have a Fourth of July country fair to help remind the audience of the setting.
THE STORY – POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!:
Sooo, I get it - the kid is really, truly bummed out in the beginning because her dad has to travel for long stretches of time and she misses him. (Bummer.) But she gets cheered up. (YAY!) And then something worse happens. (Wow – that's tragic and must be so hard on a little girl.) But she's cheered up again. (Really?) And then something else happens. (Disappointed, but she's unaware of all the ins-and-outs.) But then she manages and everything's ok. (Umm ... cool.) Then the unthinkable happens – again. (O.M.G.! This would be really depressing if it felt like these things were actually happening and not just being stuck in to manipulate the viewer in a flat, cardboard story kind of way!) How could the first disappointment be on the same depth of sadness as the worst tragedy here? My favorite part was when we finally get to see why the film is called BUTTONS. But don't blink – you'll miss it. And it will Never. Be. Mentioned. Again! WHAAAAT?! You named a film after a 15-second moment in a scene?! Sheesh! Also, this is billed as "A New Musical Film" – with meh songs being shoehorned into scenes. I suppose with a better film, the songs wouldn't be so bad, but in this, they just seem forced and not very inspired.
Long after our viewing, we puzzled over how this all-star cast could possibly have been roped into working on this abominable project. Of course, no one knows how a film will turn out, but I believe this is the director's first film, so how the heck did he manage to get Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury?! OMG! Two great actors right there! And the rest of the cast is top-notch as well (Jane Seymour, Roma Downey, and even Robert Redford did a bit of narration). We finally settled on the idea that this film was made as a labor of love, with a percentage of the proceeds going to charity. (Note: While I hope this is the case for those involved in making the film, you'd still be better off just donating some money directly to a charity.)
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Lansbury and Duck Van Dyke are amazing. Glad I bought it. Quite expensive though for a DVD but arrived quickly.