We Need a Little Christmas

We Need a Little Christmas

The joy of friendship. The Magic of Christmas.

202284 min6.2 / 10

A tender holiday drama about grief and healing, centered on an unlikely friendship between a grieving widow and her neighbor that restores joy and meaning to Christmas.

Julie is adjusting to being a single mother to a grieving child while facing her first Christmas without her husband when she develops an unexpected friendship with her older neighbor Irene.

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