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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Christmas Ransom
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'When a pair of bumbling crooks hijack the Harrington and Sons toy store, a pair of kids stumble into the heist and are forced to team up with a female security officer to save Christmas.' (Production summary)

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Works about this Work

Telemovies Have Dominated Christmas Movies for 50 Years – so Why Are the Aussie Straight-to-streaming Ones This Bad? Ari Mattes , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 December 2023;

'For some, December 25 is a solemn day, key on the Christian calendar, involving important traditions to be treated with reverence. But for many, Christmas is a time for unbridled fun: Santa, presents, and the random grump next door who suddenly decorates his house in an overwhelmingly delirious light display. For a month, we embrace with childlike delight things that for the rest of the year we would dismiss as kitsch, tacky, too bright, too shiny.' (Introduction)

Christmas Ransom : I Quite Enjoyed Watching This (terrible) New Aussie Christmas Film Ari Mattes , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 November 2022;

— Review of Christmas Ransom Elliot Vella , Gretel Vella , Timothy Walker , 2022 single work film/TV

'There’s something about the wintry quality of so much Christmas iconography – snow, mistletoe, fireplaces – that just doesn’t gel with the Southern hemisphere. So it’s not really that strange that Australian Christmas films have been so few and far between.'  (Introduction)

Christmas Ransom : I Quite Enjoyed Watching This (terrible) New Aussie Christmas Film Ari Mattes , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 November 2022;

— Review of Christmas Ransom Elliot Vella , Gretel Vella , Timothy Walker , 2022 single work film/TV

'There’s something about the wintry quality of so much Christmas iconography – snow, mistletoe, fireplaces – that just doesn’t gel with the Southern hemisphere. So it’s not really that strange that Australian Christmas films have been so few and far between.'  (Introduction)

Telemovies Have Dominated Christmas Movies for 50 Years – so Why Are the Aussie Straight-to-streaming Ones This Bad? Ari Mattes , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 December 2023;

'For some, December 25 is a solemn day, key on the Christian calendar, involving important traditions to be treated with reverence. But for many, Christmas is a time for unbridled fun: Santa, presents, and the random grump next door who suddenly decorates his house in an overwhelmingly delirious light display. For a month, we embrace with childlike delight things that for the rest of the year we would dismiss as kitsch, tacky, too bright, too shiny.' (Introduction)

Awards

2024 shortlisted AWGIE Awards Comedy Award Situation or Narrative
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