Today’s Quote:
“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.”
W.C. Jones
Reviews:
No Sleep ‘Till Christmas (2018, Hulu/Prime): 2 frightening sleep disorders
A girl I went to high school with had a sleep disorder and she would take naps in almost every class, and once took a nap while driving in TRAFFIC and then got into a minor car accident and had to go on severe medication for (I assume) the rest of her life. “No Sleep ‘Till Christmas” tries to sell a love story based around sleep disorders, and it kind of works, weirdly.
This movie is the story of Billy and Lizzie (played by a real-life married couple) who both suffer from acute insomnia in the medium-sized city of Chicago. Billy is a bartender who gets dumped by his girlfriend for being lazy and messy and generally being every man in every movie ever.
Lizzie is an event-planner and is getting married right after Christmas, and YET she has not picked out a dress OR made any sort of plans whatsoever and from my experience of going to many weddings - this is literally insane and impossible and the movie wants you to think it’s fine. Is is not fine!
The movie really gets going when Lizzie and Billy suddenly develop sleeping issues, so Lizzie goes DRIVING AT NIGHT WITH SUNGLASSES ON IN ORDER TO TRY AND FALL ASLEEP and she happens to run over Billy, who was out for a night run. Instead of being immediately pulled over and arrested on the spot, Lizzie drives to the hospital and they happen to fall asleep in the car together - which makes Lizzie realize that Billy is the only person she can fall asleep with. The rest of the movie involves Lizzie and Billy sneaking around, falling asleep together in cars and hotel rooms and generally having an emotional affair.
I was generally entertained by this movie and if you like weird rom-coms with a premise so ludicrous as two people being physically unable to sleep unless they are next to each other, then I recommend watching it. However, it is not really a CHRISTMAS movie, just a movie that happens to take place over Christmas.