The cloying odor of therapy hangs over this preachy holiday fable about a boy whose neglectful dad dies and comes back as a snowman. Jack Frost (Michael Keaton) is a struggling blues musician whose wife (Kelly Preston) and 11-year-old son Charlie (Joseph Cross)
wish he'd spend less time on the road. Just before Christmas, it looks as though Jack's band might finally get its big break when they're spotted by an A&R man from a major label. Jack misses Charlie's hockey game for a recording session and agrees reluctantly to play an influential
record-company executive's Christmas party, sending Charlie into a major snit: He even returns the harmonica his dad gave him....
Released:
1998
Rated:
PG
Length:
96 mins