'Blizzard' from 2003, starring Christopher Plummer alongside Kevin Pollak & Brenda Blethyn, Directed by LeVar Burton. It's a Christmas movie, a bit of a children's film, that is written well around a good story.
Plummer plays Santa Claus. It's regarded as a fairly good film, and that's exactly what it is, not downright good, but it's not bad. Plummer is good in the film, Blethyn is good also, they deliver good performances. Pollak delivers his part competently in a part he plays a bit over the top without going completely in the clouds, and all and all, Pollak delivers the part well.
Burton usually directs shows, but he's directed 4 movies during his career and he does a good job. The film is from 2003, but Burton's Direction & grainy filming give it an early 1980s feel, and I mean that in a good way; it somehow brings it to a needed organic earthiness; the acting by the supporting cast, including the kiddos, is done well.
All and all, 5.5 stars of 10, a fairly good film. A movie that almost surely would have been bad without the good Directing of Burton and the good acting of Plummer and pretty much the entire cast.
