The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, rated PG
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a heart-warming and family friendly film based on the 1972 book by Barbara Robinson. The film is directed by Dallas Jenkins (The Chosen), and written by Platte F. Clark, Darin McDaniel, and Ryan M. Swanson (The Chosen). The story is narrated by the adult Beth, played by Lauren Graham.
The film opens by telling us that the six Herdman children (we never see their parents), are the worst kids in the history of the world. They are mean, they steal, lie and their sister and leader Imogene, played by Beatrice Schneider, smokes cigars. They intimidate the other local children, including stealing young Beth’s necklace, played by Molly Bell Wright,  and brother Charlie’s, played by Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez, lunch dessert three days in a row. After that, Charlie tells them that there are great desserts at church on Sunday. The Herdman children had never been to church, but they show up the next Sunday, looking for those desserts. Continue reading →