A family get-together in the middle of nowhere in stinking hot weather, with bonbons and pavlova and a car out front attached to a trailer – yep, this is a bloody ’Strayan Christmas movie.
Expect gentle giggles rather than guffaws from Stan’s yuletide offering from the director Stef Smith and the writer Tegan Higginbotham: an upbeat Chrissy-gone-wrong dramedy that works best in a modest key, hinged on interpersonal dynamics and situational humour, rather than the poignantly and powerfully atmospheric work it longs to be and falls well short of.
