Movie Review: Kirk Cameron’s 'Saving Christmas’ Intervenes to Save Us All From Satan’s Power

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Ben Kenignsberg

Kirk Cameron in a film directed by Darren Doane. Credit Samuel Goldwyn Films

HOLLYWOOD---“Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas” begins with its host, the former star of “Growing Pains” and now an evangelical Christian, sitting in an easy chair in front of a fully decorated Christmas tree. In his view, the holiday is under siege. “There are some people who would love to put a big wet blanket on all of this,” he says. “They don’t want us to love Christmas so much and celebrate it the way we do.” To illustrate this Bill O’Reilly-ready premise, Mr. Cameron stages an intervention — his word — with a hypothetical brother-in-law, Christian (played by the director, Darren Doane), who isn’t feeling the seasonal cheer. Christian worries that Christmas has become too materialistic, too removed from the Bible. [link]