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IMDB rating: 4.60 Plot: It’s turning out to be a pretty rotten Christmas for the Saunders family. Having just moved to a new city from Los Angeles, they have no friends, no money and, with the exception of the bright-eyed Mary, no Christmas spirit. To make matters worse, their mother is stuck in L.A., stranded by airline overbookings. So, the Christmas shopping duties fall on Dad and the gloomy kids. Things start looking a bit more like Christmas when 12-year old Brian and 6-year old Mary find a satchel of money at the local mall and they launch a Yuletide shopping spree…that is, until the crooks who counterfeited the money chase them through the mall packed with holiday shoppers. |
Actors: Swayze Patrick,Knight Matthew,Curry Tim,Kattan Chris,Preston Lacy,Bright Cameron,Walker Matthew,Antonini Marty,Ash Rick,Bellefleur Matt,Christian Doug,Holik Mark,Comedy,Family,
What phrases are derived from Alice In Wonderland?
I’ve heard people being called looking glass from when Alice goes through the looking glass into a fantasy world, and I’ve heard the phrase ‘if you see a hookah smoking catterpillar’ used instead of the phrase ‘pigs might fly’. Are there any more? Thanks and merry Christmas(:
ooh just thought of one! grinning like a cheshire cat 
tamart: lol everyone knows its about opium. all the victorians were on it, lighten up
The phrase ‘curiouser and curiouser’ – to describe a strange situation which becomes stranger – is often used in literate circles. ‘Grinning like a Cheshire Cat’ existed before Lewis Carroll borrowed it (so did ‘mad as a hatter’) – but both phrases became more widely known after occurring in the book. ‘Down the rabbit hole’ is sometimes found as a description of entering an unfamiliar and irrational world (quantum physicists are especially fond of the phrase).
The King of Hearts mentions ‘Rule 42′ as ‘the oldest rule in the book’; following the King of Hearts’ example Douglas Adams makes ‘42′ the meaning of Life (in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’).
The word ‘chortle’ is now standard English, but first occurs in the poem Jabberwocky (where Carroll never says what it means).
A favourite saying of President Kennedy’s was ‘what I tell you three times is true’ – but this is a quotation from ‘The Hunting of the Snark’, rather than from the Alice books.
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(Carroll was in fact a lifelong campaigner against recreational drug use, and the suggestion he was a paedophile was made by an American psychology student – who probably had never read the books – in the 1950’s. But you always get idiots posting on questions like these).
morporc | Dec 23, 2009
I’m often late for appointments, so I’ve been known to say ‘I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date!’ like the bunny in Alice in Wonderland.
Merry Christmas to you too!
Cocoa Dusted Love | Dec 23, 2009
You may not be aware that the author Lewis Carrol was an opium addict. He wrote it under the Influence. He was also a paedophile and ‘Alice’ was one of his victims.
Tamart | Dec 23, 2009
‘Mad as a hatter’ is also used
chocolate bear | Dec 23, 2009
Jacob Bryan