Trading Up Christmas

These writers took an exciting and interesting concept and made it blah, plus managed to break their own plot.

The concept for this film came from a real story many years ago where a guy started with a paper clip and wound up with a house. It was a pretty crummy little house, but still a house. He did it over the course of only fourteen trades taking a year.

Here a woman wants to start with a Christmas stocking and wind up with a house in ten days, by Christmas.

The story of the trades could have been exciting and memorable, but they aren't. I said they broke their own plot. How? After the second trade, a reporter covering the story actually starts deciding on the trades and surprising her with them.

The acting is blah, the dialogue has nothing with any real personality, and it takes a long time in story days between each trade.

Searh for the Wikipedia article "one red paperclip" to get the sequence of trades in the real story.