Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.
Acting
Linda Hamilton's exhausted, ferocious maternal authority anchors every scene.
Writing
The truce negotiation builds with nail-biting credibility.
Director
Rodney Gibbons
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