Wow! Such a good movie.

Excellent but underrated film

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas stars alongside Jessica Biel in this delightful yuletide story and although the plot is quite diaphanous (sometimes far-fetched) it is quite enjoyable to watch, if you just forget about those moments. The overall theme of the film is a 'finding the way' road trip where our star Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is inspired to make his way home before Christmas Day so that he can get the Porsche from his Dad, the car that he has always wanted. Through-out the movie as soon as you think he will make it home, something else gets in the way but because he is so resourceful he manages to overcome those obstacles, sometimes even breaking the law! Eventually Jake finds out that it's not about making it home on time to get the Porsche but that he spends the time with his family instead, something that he has tried to avoid - yes kind of corny and cliché.The story is just endearing, it combines sentiment with age-appropriate humour and it's just a great movie to watch at the end of the year. Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Jessica Biel manage to hold the film together with their strong performances, but sometimes you must unplug your brain and forget about certain parts because they are just too implausible. Overall an enjoyable Christmas movie.

I'll be Home for Christmas (1998): Dir: Arlene Sanford / Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Gary Cole, Adam LaVorgna, Andrew Lauer: Idiotic holiday adventure that ranks right up there with Jingle All the Way as nerve wrecking stupidity. The title represents promise, which Jonathan Taylor Thomas does when his father invites him home from college promising a Porsche if he arrives by 6:00 on a particular date. He is off and running until his peers beat him up. They are angry with regards to an exam that he was suppose to help them cheat on. He wakes up in the desert wearing a Santa Claus suit. The rest is your basic road movie as he encounters strange people on his way home. Oh yeah. On a side note, his worst enemy is driving his girlfriend home. Directed by Arlene Sanford who had no better success with A Very Brady Sequel. This ranks as one of the worst of holiday films, with the handling of Thomas's rival proving mean-spirited. Thomas looks like the bunt of a bad joke. Jessica Biel recites her Seventh Heaven role, not to mention that her good girl image here is as predictable as any other in similar roles. Gary Cole is reduced to sitting at home and waiting. Perhaps he is waiting for a better script to arrive. Andrew Lauer plays a thief whom Thomas encounters on his hideous venture home. The result is an unnerving pile of road kill. Score: 1 / 10

a Walt Disney film from 1998 I give this 6/10 for a Christmas film it has a road trip a guilty girlfriend this film is hilarious comedy that makes us all believe in our dream of a white one Jake Wilkinson loves a crazy ideas in college and tries to impress his girlfriend Jessica biels character but he is wheeling dealing self centered student and has one thing on his mind has has a target to get home for Xmas or not get the porsche for some reason he finds himself in the desert dresses as sonata but having no money and stranded he has to come up with a plan which includes flying crawling creating con jobs racing bully and even sleigh his way home along the way he helps out with other peoples problem on his way east such a manic snow ride home as his non stop mission goes weird with him being sonata people looking for help his kind ness comes out the closer he gets home the closer the meaning of the Xmas means and the importance of family means this is brilliant film at 1hr23mins long it a fast journey

In my opinion, this is an excellent Christmas movie with a message to it. If you ask me, every mishap that Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) encountered while trying to get home from California to New York for Christmas was absolutely hilarious. The most hilarious one, to me, was when he encountered Eddie (Adam LaVorgna) in his hotel room. This was because he had Jake's girlfriend (Jessica Biel) with him. Please, don't tell me my sense of enjoyment is twisted. In addition, the bus driver was a complete jerk. Also, from the looks of it, the Porsche that was at stake was absolutely vintage. The reason I said that is because it was a 1957 model. In conclusion, if you like Jonathan Taylor Thomas or Christmas movies, this is one you'll definitely want to see.