Gift Of The Magi (Hallmark)

This movie starring is Marla Sokoloff and Mark Webber. This movie is about a newlywed couple named Jim and Della Alexander. Christmas is coming around the corrner the couple is having money problems. Jim (Mark Webber) and Della (Marla Sokoloff) just moved into an appartment and somebody took their car over the night,and they have to buy a new car the couple does not have an money for Christmas presents for each other. Della gets a second job in order to buy Jim steering wheel for the car Jim is working. Jim buys Della something for her camera that dearly loves. The thing is each them had to sale their favorite thing in order to buy the other present. Watch this movie to see what happens in the end. This is a great Christmas movie!

Really good movie for the Christmas movie library. Like the message and the acting was well done. Its a keeper.

COULDN'T WATCH, HARD OF HEARING HAS NO CLOSED CAPTION

It is a Hallmark movie, so you know it is nicely put together. I am happy to have it in my Christmas collection. Nice looking young couple who have an issue because of a misunderstanding. Read the book, or better yet buy and watch the movie. I am sure you will not regret having this movie.

One of my favorite Christmas stories and a wonderful modern day adaptation. Very family friendly.

I love holiday movies, and this one is very sweet! A little different than the original, but still a great movie with a different twist.

I am a big fan of Christmas movies and Gift of The Magi was a great fit to my collection. The whole family can watch and you dont have to try and sensor it.

O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" is a 2,070-word short story. "Gift of the Magi" is an 85-minute film. One way to stretch the pithy short story to that length, I suppose, is to have the actors speak verrrrry slowly. The way the film chooses is to introduce subplots in this modern retelling of the classic.As I assume most of the would-be viewers of this film are familiar with the short story, I'll discuss the changes. Some are trivial. In the story, for example, the last name of Della and Jim (the husband and wife) is Young. In the film, it's Alexander. The story has the article "The" at the beginning of the title; the film does not. Some are understandable for a modern retelling. Instead of a watch fob chain and hair combs, the gifts here are a steering wheel for a vintage car that Jim works on incessantly and a zoom lens for a camera that Della loves. I don't see any great harm in that change. But some changes are hard to understand and do detract from the qualities that made the short story so popular.At this point, I face a problem. Describing the biggest change involves giving away a key element that occurs in the second half of the film and might well constitute a spoiler. I will say that there is a somewhat adult element added. By this, I mean that there's a plot element that parents might have to explain to children. There's neither graphic language nor graphic scenes, but imagine, if you will, if, in [...], Mrs. Cratchit had suspected Bob Cratchit of striking Tiny Tim. I should imagine parents would be uncomfortable explaining to children why an adult might hit a child. There's no physical abuse here, but there is an adult theme that might make this film less than ideal for children. And that's a shame since the original story is so simple.One other problem is worth mentioning. Della and Jim must be poor for the story to work well, but their home and the possessions seem inconsistent with this point. Why films have a tendency to give even people with small incomes such spacious abodes is beyond me.Ultimately, I found "Gift of the Magi" to be more reflective of many other contemporary Christmas films--couple in love encounters a problem that threatens to separate them, etc.--than of the original story. In this sense, it's probably OK for the considerable audiences those films obviously draw, especially those who haven't read the short story. But it's pretty pedestrian. For better film adaptations of O. Henry stories, try [...].