Community Theater Christmas

If you ever seen or participated in a Holiday pageant, you will get the vibe here. Zany and entertaining, it feels like Charlie Brown Christmas on steroids. A real slice of Holiday Pie!

The opening dedication is pitch perfect in setting up what you're about to see: Tongue-in-cheek irony about a community theater competing for a grant with an original Christmas play written by one of its members.

Shot like an amateur documentary with lots of pieces missing, each character is so perfectly imperfect, it becomes a lighthearted look at human ego in action with all its fears, egoisms, self-importance, searches for meaning, self-aggrandizing, and spiteful power games. If you've ever been involved with community theater--either backstage or in the audience--you'll recognize it in your bones. Plus, the actors all look like amateur actors and play it so over-the-top NORMAL with an excruciatingly bad Christmas play, there are times you forget its not a real documentary.

In fact, as the rehearsals and play progressed, there were a few times I stopped to wonder if the actors were really that bad or were they that brilliant? And therein lies the beauty of the film. It's different. And hits the bullseye of what it set out to do: Entertain you with tongue-in-cheek irony.

I can't remember the last time I saw a film through which I wore a smile all the way to the end. Watch it.

So much fun, reminds me of Best In Show. Perfect in time for the holidays! Super funny and has a sweet ending, great movie to watch curled up with a comfy blanket and some mulled wine.

Fabulous ensemble comedy & definitely worth a watch. Angelica is the best part.

A fun, great film directed by Melissa Vitello; written by Melissa Vitello and Bryan Ricke. It's a movie filled with amazing actors who truly make a mixture of laughs and love story all rolled into one so much fun. The story is of the play's cast competing for a state grant to keep the doors of their theater open, they race to get there first with an original Christmas play. Awkward moments leave us in stitches with an ending of sweet romance. Community Theater Christmas is a pick-me-up film that makes you laugh hysterically; undoubtedly a great movie for all.