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Starring: Henry Lawfull, Toby Jones, Sally Hawkins, Kristen Wiig, Michiel Huisman, Zoe Colletti, Stephen Merchant, Joel Fry, Rune Temte, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Indica Watson, Rishi Kuppa

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Netflix family fantasy adventure directed and co-written by Gil Kenan. A Boy Called Christmas (2021) is a reimagining of the story of Father Christmas and follows an ordinary young boy, Nikolas (Henry Lawfull), as he sets out on an adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen and his loyal pet mouse, Miika (Stephen Merchant), Nikolas soon meets his destiny.

Our Favorite Quotes:

'Grief is the price we pay for love, and worth it a million times over.' - Aunt Ruth (A Boy Called Christmas) Click To Tweet 'The only thing in life that is simple and clear is the truth. But it can be painful.' - Truth Pixie (A Boy Called Christmas) Click To Tweet

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Man: Merry Christmas.
Aunt Ruth: I’m working on it.

Aunt Ruth: [moviequotesandmore.com] It’s as I thought, still heartbroken.
Andrea: I’m not.
Patrick: Me either.
Moppet: I am. But I still love mummy with all the broken pieces.

Moppet: You’re very old.
Aunt Ruth: Yes. I’m very aware of it.
Andrea: I still don’t get why we all have to listen.
Aunt Ruth: Because the universe is made of stories, not atoms.
Patrick: That’s not actually true.
Aunt Ruth: Well, it must be because I never lie.

Aunt Ruth: Now you may find this hard to believe, but long ago, nobody knew about Christmas. At this time, in the middle of a forest in Finland, there lived an ordinary boy called Nikolas along with his father, a humble woodcutter, who at the moment was quite preoccupied.

Joel: Be the forest.
Nikolas: I don’t know what that means.
Joel: It means don’t move.

Joel: [referring to Elfhelm] There Lumi stayed until the snow cleared, and she was finally able to return to her home in the south, her pockets full of chocolates.
Nikolas: You believe this story, don’t you, Papa?
Joel: The ending is a stretch. The chocolate would have melted. But the rest?
Nikolas: The magic, and the elves?
Joel: I’ve never seen them.
Nikolas: But you believe in them.
Joel: Your mother did. And to her, believing was as good as knowing.

Joel: [referring to the mouse, Miika] He’ll steal our food!
Nikolas: What food?

Nikolas: [to Miika] I’ve thought about this a lot, and I’ve decided to call you Miika. And I’m going to teach you to talk.

Nikolas: [moviequotesandmore.com] My mama always told me if you believe you can do something, you’re halfway there.

Joel: [after being summoned by the king] Of course I love the King. He’s a great man,
he deserves all that he has. The thing is, we deserve it too. Everybody does.
Nikolas: We manage with what we have.
Joel: We have very little.
Nikolas: We have each other.
Joel: And that’s wonderful. But I want more.

King: We all know times are hard. I mean really, really, really hard. I can’t remember the last time I smiled. Can you? What is there to smile about? We’re all miserable. We’re all missing something, and I think we know what that is.
Member of Crowd 1: A health care system.
King: It’s an idea, but not quite.
Member of Crowd 2: A living wage!
King: Again, worth discussing.
Member of Crowd 3: A fair system of governance? Enough food to feed people?

King: Hope. We all need hope. A spark of magic to keep us all going. I’ve gathered you here because you are the hardiest men and women in the land.
King: [to the man coughing] Not you.
King: And I’m asking you to go to the very edges of our kingdom. Go beyond, and bring back something, anything, to give us hope again.

King: [moviequotesandmore.com] The path may be dangerous. Some of you will die. Probably most of you. But if you succeed, your award will be far greater.

Joel: [referring to Nikolas] I’m so sorry, Your Majesty. He lives in the clouds, this one.
King: Lucky boy.

Joel: I’ll be back before you know it. It’ll be worth it.
Nikolas: To bring some new hope to the world?
Joel: To claim the reward.
Nikolas: But isn’t the reward bringing us new hope and wonder?
Joel: The reward is the money. And the money means food, and warm clothes, so you can have a life. The life I stood at your mother’s grave site and promised you’d have.

Joel: I’ll miss you, Christmas.
Nikolas: You never told me why Mama used to called me that.
Joel: She never told me either. It’s just a word. It doesn’t have to mean anything.

Nikolas: [referring to the shooting star] You see that, Miika? It means you have to make a wish. I wish that my father succeeds, brings back something magic. We all need it.

Aunt Ruth: Time is slow for those who wait.

Aunt Carlotta: [moviequotesandmore.com] Is that you making that awful rumbling sound.
Nikolas: It’s my tummy, Aunt Carlotta.
Aunt Carlotta: Oh, stop complaining. I’m hungrier than you are.
Nikolas: You’re eating my breakfast.
Aunt Carlotta: Well, I’m not enjoying it.

Aunt Carlotta: Why can’t I have a chocolate?
Nikolas: Because these things don’t just appear magically.
Aunt Carlotta: Well, wouldn’t life be nicer if they did?

Aunt Ruth: Home is not a place, it’s a feeling. And as the days stretched into weeks, and his father did not return, Nikolas started to wonder if he’d ever feel it again.

Nikolas: [after finding the map inside the Christmas hat] Over the river, under the moon, up the pointy mountain, past the sleeping giants, Elfhelm.
Aunt Ruth: And just like that, Nikolas had a purpose. A mission.

Goose Lady: [to Nikolas] Never believe anything, especially fairy tales about magical towns with tiny, happy people. Fall off a bridge, boy. It’ll hurt less.

Nikolas: [moviequotesandmore.com] Do you believe in magic, Miika? Because I don’t think I do anymore. If there was a time where you could prove that magic was true, and real, and amazing, it would be this one.

Nikolas: Miika, you can talk!
Miika: Yeah, of course, I can talk. And I can fly as well. No, just kidding. No mice can fly. That would be absurd.

Nikolas: So why didn’t you speak before?
Miika: I was waiting until I could form a proper sentence. Which, with your one word at a time teaching system, did take forever.

Miika: So, can we talk about something very important?
Nikolas: What’s that?
Miika: Cheese. Does it exist?
Nikolas: I’ve never seen any. That doesn’t mean I don’t believe in it.
Miika: Yeah. Well, I’d rather taste it than just believe in it.

Miika: [moviequotesandmore.com] What’s the word for the really scary big thing that has four legs, and sort of horns on its head? What’s that word?
Nikolas: I don’t know. Reindeer?
Miika: That’s it. Yeah, a reindeer.
Nikolas: Why do you ask?
Miika: Oh, no reason. Except one’s charging straight at us!

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Miika: [after they help Blitzen, the reindeer] Well, that went a lot better than expected. Given I thought we were both going to die.

Miika: Why would you teach me to talk if you’re never going to listen?

Nikolas: I can’t just call you reindeer. I’ll pick a name for you.
Miika: Oh, bad idea. That’s how I ended up with Miika.

Nikolas: When I was young, I used to go sledding with my mom around Lake Blitzen. How about that for a name?
Miika: Which one? Lake or Blitzen? Or both? Do you mean both? That seems a bit much to me. Onward, my faithful reindeer, Lake Blitzen.

Aunt Ruth: [referring to Nikolas] He had done everything he could. But it wasn’t enough. What do you think? Should we leave it there tonight? It’s getting late. I mean, I can come back next year. I’m just kidding. I’ll crack on.

Miika: Somebody’s coming closer. Oh, they’re here to help. Nikolas, we’re safe. We’re… No, we’re doomed.

Little Noosh: [referring to Nikolas] Look at his strange ears, Grandpapa.
Father Topo: Human ears can take a lot of getting used to.
Little Noosh: He’s a human. Will he eat us?
Father Topo: Oh, no. We’re quite safe.

Father Topo: We must always help those in trouble. Even if they are human.

Father Topo: A drimwick is a hope spell. I hoped for you to be strong, and warm, and always safe.
Nikolas: Always safe? That’s impossible.
Father Topo: We never, ever say that word. An impossibility is only a possibility that you don’t understand yet. But now we must get as far away from you as possible. And you must leave Elfhelm!

Nikolas: I’m sorry. We’re in the middle of nowhere. There’s just snow.
Little Noosh: Is he blind?
Father Topo: He doesn’t know how to see.

Nikolas: Wait, I’ve risked everything to find Elfhelm. You have to let me see it. Just once.
Father Topo: To see something, you must believe in it. Really believe. Go ahead. Try your hardest, and see if you can see what it is you’re searching for.

Nikolas: Elfhelm! It’s incredible.
Miika: Oh! I’m going to be honest, kid. I did not see this one working out for us.

Father Topo: This is the Resistance.
Miika: To what? Sanity?

Miika: [as he goes through a giant cake] No idea what this Christmas thing is, but I love it. Hey, Nikolas, guess who just ate a chair. Oh, don’t worry, sugar glass. I’m fine, and stuffed.

Nikolas: Did they just say Christmas?
Father Topo: Yes, this is a Christmas party.
Nikolas: What is Christmas? Because that’s the name my mother used to call me.
Father Topo: I beg your pardon. Did you just say what is Christmas?
Nikolas: Yes?
Miika: Apologies for my friend. He’s a simpleton. A Christmas is a city made of cakes, isn’t it?

Father Topo: Christmas is the greatest day of all, because it is the kindest day of all.
Little Noosh: And the brightest, and the smiliest. A day when being openhearted is the most important thing of all, which is why we won’t let them take it from us.

Nikolas: [referring to Joel] What did you do to him?
Mother Vodol: I trusted him. We all did. And why not? A human had visited us once before, too briefly. And her stay brought us such joy. For years we waited ready to welcome any others who found their way to Elfhelm to show them good will, which these men proved was just another name for weakness.

Nikolas: [referring to kidnapping Kip] My father would never do such a thing.
Mother Vodol: And yet he did. Which is why at the election, I put myself forward with the motto, Elves for Elves. No more silly parties where we let our guards down. No more wanton carelessness. No more singing. And an outright ban on spickle dancing! No more kindness. No more joy. No more Christmas.

Truth Pixie: You don’t know the first thing about truth. Nobody does. My lonely heart is the proof.
Nikolas: Are you an elf?
Truth Pixie: No, gross. I’m a pixie. Truth Pixie.
Nikolas: You must be lying. There’s no such thing.
Truth Pixie: I can’t lie. I’m a truth pixie. That gets me into trouble. Well, that and making people’s heads explode.

Nikolas: We’re flying!
Truth Pixie: More like not dropping.

Nikolas: I’m just picturing beautiful things.
Truth Pixie: I keep thinking of a dead mouse.
Nikolas: Now that’s all I can picture too!

Truth Pixie: Do you know how many people want to be friends with someone who only speaks the truth?
Nikolas: Not many?
Truth Pixie: Not any, human boy.

Mother Harkus: In conclusion, humans are dangerous animals and can never be trusted. So, what would we do if we ever saw a human?
Mother Harkus: [as a girl screams upon seeing Nikolas] That’s absolutely right.

Andrea: [referring to if Nikolas dies] We couldn’t handle it.
Aunt Ruth: You could, you know. You can handle anything, because you’ve already handled everything.

Nikolas: I can’t get caught again.
Truth Pixie: Lucky for you, I’ve got more tricks up my sleeve. And by tricks, I mean improvised homemade explosives.

Nikolas: [after finding out that Joel did help kidnap Kip] Being good is better than being rich, Papa. Better than anything. And if you’ve forgotten that, you’ve forgotten Mama.

Joel: Don’t look at me like that, son. I’m doing my best.
Miika: This is your best? I’ll be honest with you. I always think you can judge a person’s character if the first time you meet them, they try and kill you with…
Nikolas: Be quiet, Miika.
Miika: An ax.

Joel: [as he’s freeing Kip] That was a terrible idea you had coming here, running away, all of it. But you’re my son, and I’m on your side no matter what. Why are you smiling?
Nikolas: There’s goodness in you after all.

Joel: I love you, Nikolas.
Nikolas: No, Papa!
Joel: You have so much good to give. It’s better than anything.
[Joel falls to his death as he goes over the cliff]

Patrick: That’s the worst story I’ve ever heard.
Aunt Ruth: Well, I haven’t finished.
Andrea: There’s no way you can get to happy ending from here.
Aunt Ruth: I don’t have to. Happiness isn’t compulsory, and nothing ever ends.

Aunt Ruth: Grief is the price we pay for love, and worth it a million times over.

Nikolas: [to Kip] Listen. I know you must think my father was a bad human, but there’s good too. Humans are complicated.

Truth Pixie: Listen. The only thing in life that is simple and clear is the truth. But it can be painful.
Nikolas: Does the pain ever go away?
Truth Pixie: No.
Miika: You couldn’t just lie once?
Truth Pixie: But you learn to live with it. And you get stronger because of it. And that’s the truth.

Nikolas: I only ever had one toy. It was a turnip doll. My Mama made it for me.
Miika: It’s a very sad story. He ate it.
Truth Pixie: We’ve all done things we regret.

Nikolas: We’ll need anything you have. Shiny things, stacking things, things that wind up. And I’ll need to borrow this curtain too.
Truth Pixie: Could you be kidnapping another elf?
Nikolas: No, bigger. Much, much bigger.
Miika: We’re opening a curtain shop?

Nikolas: And we haven’t much time!
Miika: And I haven’t much cheese.
Loka: Well, why didn’t you say so? I make my own.
Miika: Marry me.

Father Topo: [to Nikolas] They look up to you, you know. We all do. And not just because you’re so freakishly tall.

Father Topo: As I recall, Dimelza, there was a time you loved humans more than most.
Mother Vodol: But she left without a word.
Nikolas: She never did forget. My mother told me the story of Elfhelm every night. It was always with her.

Nikolas: My mother told me Elfhelm was the most hopeful, happiest place in the world. And it should be that again, especially on Christmas. The day she named me after.
Mother Vodol: She called you Christmas.

Nikolas: You ready, old friend?
Miika: Born ready. You meant the reindeer, didn’t you?

King: Who are you? What’s in that bag?
Nikolas: Hope, and magic, and wonder.
King: Guards!
Nikolas: Wait, the thing you’ve been searching for, the discovery that can relight the spark.
King: Oh, that. I’ve pretty much given up on that. You see enough horses with horns stuck to their head, you get a little cynical.

Aunt Ruth: Nikolas showed the king that it’s not about the presents. Although they are wonderful. It’s about what’s behind them. We give what we have to show that we care. And then we all share in the joy. And that joy can grow into hope one house at a time, and spread throughout the land.

King: [to Nikolas] I asked for something new. You’ve brought me something we’d forgotten we already had. Thank you.

King: [to Nikolas] I hardly know you, but it seems to me that if anyone deserves the infinite joy of loving and being loved, it’s you, my young friend. Besides, it’s just just one day a year. What shall we call it?
Miika: That’s easy. Nikolas and Miika the Talking Mouse Day.
King: Any other ideas?

Nikolas: [to Aunt Carlotta] I just came back to tell you magic is real.
King: It is! It really is!

Aunt Ruth: The sack was nearly empty of toys, but for Nikolas, the adventure was just beginning. And so it was that a king, a mouse, a reindeer, and a boy called Christmas disappeared back into the sky.

Aunt Ruth: It’s always the way. The darkest night will end. The sun will rise, and Christmas mornings will come again when anything and everything can happen.

Andrea: Is that really how Christmas properly began?
Aunt Ruth: Oh, it must be. You see, I never lie.
[we see her ears as she puts on her hat, revealing she’s Truth Pixie]

'It's always the way. The darkest night will end. The sun will rise, and Christmas mornings will come again when anything and everything can happen.' - Aunt Ruth (A Boy Called Christmas) Click To Tweet