十一月的圣诞 (2010)

A small Rhode Island community comes together to create special Halloween and Christmas moments several weeks early for an 8-year-old girl with a life threatening illness.At the beginning of the film, the father (John Corbett) gives his ill daughter a snow globe of a little girl holding a snow globe, and inside that globe is another little girl holding a snow globe. The mother (Sarah Paulson) tells her daughter that she has to shake the globe to make it snow. The girl is fascinated with the snow, having never seen it before, and wishes that she could see it for Christmas. The father, hearing this, becomes concerned that his daughter may not live to see December.After the father quietly asks a neighboring farmer (Sam Elliott) about buying pumpkins - and later Christmas trees - the farmer figures out that the father is trying to speed up the holidays so that his daughter will have a Christmas before she dies. The farmer, searching for pumpkins to surprise the family, heals an old friendship that hed lost when his own son had died, and is rewarded with an invitation to be his old friends best man at the friends upcoming wedding. Together, the two men sneak a truckload of pumpkins onto the familys front porch, much to the surprise of the daughter who decides she wants to have a Halloween party. The mother tries to explain that its too early, but the father agrees to the party and the daughter (and her younger brother) begin to plan their Halloween costumes.As a show of appreciation, the father goes to the farmers home and invites him and his wife to the party. The farmer goes to town and mentions it to a young waitress (Elizabeth McLaughlin) at the local restaurant whom the daughter had befriended. Later, the farmer gives the father a box of Halloween decorations to help decorate the familys house, and on the night of the party the waitress arrives with the towns children to help celebrate. The daughter - who was prohibited from going to school and meeting other childre