Just Another Christmas

JUST ANOTHER CHRISTMAS is a cross between It's a Wonderful Life and Groundhog Day, in which Jorge (Leandro Hassum), a busy dad who hates Christmas and the holiday's predictable, trying, and repetitive family gatherings, slowly learns how much his life is passing him by. When he falls off the roof reluctantly playing Santa Claus for the family, he wakes up to find that while it feels as if only one day has passed, it's Christmas again, a full year later. He has no memory of the past year, and with seemingly no time to recover from the previous nightmarish Christmas, he's faced with it again. His wife Laura (Elisa Pinheiro) has to fill him in on the year's events and what the one-year-older kids have accomplished, but even on Christmas he's still too busy to spend time with them. The relatives all have the same quirks and issues. But most important, each passing year reveals how Jorge is wasting his time on unimportant things. Christmas after Christmas, he learns the frivolities he's wasted that precious time on -- an affair, a divorce. They've kept him from being with his kids and appreciating his wife. In this time loop, he only remembers Christmas, so it isn't long before he wakes one day to meet his grown daughter's baby and to learn of a tragic diagnosis. The next time he wakes up, it's to the grief left behind. Will Jorge finally learn what matters?