The Last Christmas is the best Christmas movie I have watched this year... and I have watched quite a few. It seems that the theme of most is Arrogant, workaholic man or woman from a city reluctantly spends Christmas in a rural town and finds the true meaning of Christmas, the true meaning of live and falls in love. Really Hollywood? The same theme over and over again?
Well The Last Christmas was actually different and worthwhile. The story was written by Emma Thompson with her husband Greg Wise and was based on George Michael's song with the same name.
It stars Emilia Clark as Kate and Harry Golding as Tom, with Thompson playing Kate's mother. Kate is an aspiring singer working in a dead-end job. She has an immigrant family who fled the old Yugoslavia and has lots of struggles and personality issues.
I thought it was quite charming with an unexpected twist. I found it on Amazon Prime.
Kate is a big George Michael and Wham fan so the soundtrack is fun.