Jingle All the Way
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is
constantly busy at his job.
The first sequence of the movie
showed how he also constantly disappointed his son, especially after he missed
his son's karate exposition. The desperate dad then begins to try hard to come up with a way to make it
up to him, this is when his son tells Howard that what he wanted for Christmas
is an action figure of his son's television hero, Turbo Man.
It turns out that Liz (Howard’s wife)
and he himself have agreed to buy the Turbo Man doll weeks before the Christmas
season started. Howard then begins to learn a fact. A fact that getting the
doll at Christmas Eve would be the hardest thing he may ever do.
He moved from store to store, traveled from one state to another just so that he could go and find that
Turbo Man doll. And with every store he went to, he would always find himself
staring at the “Sold Out” sign. In the process of looking for the doll, Howard competed
against a deranged postal worker, as well as con-artist Santas, the police, and
almost every parent in town.
And as all of that was happening,
his son and wife are at home waiting for him—not knowing where the father went—watching
time pass them by. More conflicts involve their neighbor flirting with Howard’s
wife while Howard was away.
Will Howard get to redeem how much
of a father he really is to his son? And will he get there in time before his
flirtatious neighbor finally seizes up his wife?
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