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Its out there if you want it, but you really, really shouldnt watch it.)

An action movie with heart, laughs, and Christmas spirit: How can you resist?

It was remade in 1996 with Denzel Washington in the Cary Grant role alongside Whitney Houston.

Stick with the original.

The movie plays like a cozy old blanket you only half remember.

EdwardScissorhands(1990)

We get as tired of the old Is thismovie a Christmas movie?

This is the immature, sophomoric Sandler ofBilly MadisonandHappy Gilmore, and the jokes are undeniably juvenile.

Dont tell the grandparents youre watching this they wont approve.

But how many other holiday movies feature deer who eat feces?

(Actually, dont answer that.

We dont want to know.)

We guarantee you this will make your family very happy.

And its short: under an hour, just in time to wreck you.

Nearly 20 years later, it still more than holds up.

A love story, a tribute to the power of optimism … even a courtroom drama?

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