Review of Prancer

Prancer (1989)
4/10
Prancer
2 December 2022
Prancer is a maudlin festive movie about a little girl who recently lost her mother.

When Jessica Riggs (Rebecca Harrell) finds an injured reindeer, she thinks it could be an extra special Christmas after a difficult year.

Jessica thinks that the reindeer is Prancer and once nursed back to health. Santa will come looking for it.

Only her curmudgeonly father John (Sam Elliott) a poor farmer and now struggling parent as no time for his daughter and the reindeer.

He threatens to shoot the reindeer and later sells it to the town butcher. Luckily the butcher has no plans to send Prancer to the mincer.

More realistic and less saccharine. Most of the adults are grumpy. Only the kids believe that this reindeer could fly.

It is slow and heavy going. The kids will be bored and the adults could not care less. They certainly do not make them like this anymore.
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