![]() You do get drawn into this story even though you can guess that being a made for TV Christmas movie anything other than a happy ever after ending is seriously unlikely. ![]() Spooky hey, well not really as whilst this is a take on the idea of an angel coming to forewarn someone there is a twist, a twist which you sort of suspect before it arrives come the end of "A Perfect Day".īut the thing is, that whilst "A Perfect Day" comes across as a mix of cliche ideas, other stories and recognizable scenes it strangely works. And at the same time this mysterious stranger keeps on cropping up as the bearer of bad tidings as he warns Rob he only has a limited time left, 40 days which means come Christmas Day he begins to believe he will die. All of which to be honest is well worked whilst being extremely obvious, well with that opening it doesn't take long for you to guess that at that low point he's become estranged from his family and he is realising that all the success in the world isn't worth it.īut there is another side to "A Perfect Day" and that is the mysterious side, with Christopher Lloyd as the mysterious stranger who suddenly appears as Rob becomes more and more conceited to warn him of what he is becoming. Along this journey we watch how he goes from being a family man who takes on some manual labour to pay the bills till an agent likes the book he wrote through to this self centred man who becomes Mr. In this case we have the storyline of Rob Harlan whose life changes when he is made redundant and so focuses on becoming a writer, a rocky road which leads to success but success changes him and causes him marital problems. ![]() ![]() Now to be blunt "A Perfect Day" is a TV movie with a message and a Christmas movie at that, if that doesn't signal cliche fuelled drama I don't know what will. Not the most ingenious of starts and to be honest the actual story of how Rob got there isn't that ingenious either but as it works it's way through what is a bucket load of cliches "A Perfect Day" manages to keep you watching till we get an appropriate ending and a couple of surprises. Any guesses what follows? Yes we get taken back to the start of this tale, into the life of family man Rob Harlan and we watch as events unfold leading to him being in a hotel room all alone at Christmas. Then suddenly it goes black and white and we have Christopher Lloyd's character basically asking the question how did we get here. "A Perfect Day" starts with Rob Lowe's character entering a hotel room on his own, it's Christmas and he longingly stares out of the window. But success causes him to spend more and more time away from his family whilst he also starts seeing this mysterious stranger, Michael ( Christopher Lloyd), who ominously appears like some sort of angel of death to warn him that he only has a short time left. And eventually things go his way when an agent decides to take a chance on him and all of a sudden Rob's book becomes a best seller turning him into an over night success. Having been made redundant from his marketing Job, family man Rob Harlan ( Rob Lowe) decides to concentrate on becoming a novelist and whilst hard work, especially when faced with the numerous rejection letters, he sticks with it.
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