Review of The Christmas Card

This is a feel good Christmas movie. I have seen it many times and I will continue to see it every year. Why? Because it has several characters that I care about. That is what is missing in so much of what passes for movie 'entertainment' today. Ed Asner is in his element as Luke the patriarch of a Northern California lumber mill operation. His daughter Faith, with the international wine broker boyfriend who is rarely around as he travels the globe, is a knockout who loves working the mill with her Mom & Dad & her Mom's brother Uncle Richard. Faith & several members of the local church send Christmas cards to soldiers in war zones every year. Sergeant Cody Cullen, a career Army soldier gets one of Faith's cards. It tells him if he is ever in the area to stop by & visit Nevada City where the lumber mill is . This becomes helpful & inspirational when one of his troops dies in a mortar attack. He reads the card over & over and eventually he takes mandatory leave & delivers his fallen mate's dog tags to his widow. As he wanders in to Nevada City he meets Luke and Faith and the fun starts. This is a very nice movie that happens to have a Christmas theme. I highly recommend it.