LAST CHRISTMAS
A heartfelt, funny redemption story that earns an adults-only verdict.
Should You Watch It?
LAST CHRISTMAS is a funny, heartfelt romantic comedy with a strong moral at its center. Kate has hurt the people around her through selfishness, drinking, partying, and a careless approach to life. Tom, a compassionate man who works at a Christian homeless shelter, helps point her toward selflessness and a better way to live.
The film starts and ends in a church and includes overtly positive Christian references. Its redemptive message is sincere, and its heartwarming moments give the story real appeal. But the journey includes too much foul language, several strong profanities, lewd material, and references to sexual immorality.
If you are a discerning adult willing to navigate those elements for the sake of the film’s moral and emotional rewards, take the trip; for children and young teens, choose something else.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESKate works as an elf in a quirky Christmas shop, but she is distracted, unreliable, and living a destructive lifestyle. Her passion is singing, though she has little motivation for life and has damaged relationships with the people around her.
Then she meets Tom, an exceptionally positive young man who works at a Christian homeless shelter. As he encourages her to look up and notice the world around her, Kate begins facing the choices that have kept her stuck.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is a highly entertaining film despite its content problems. LAST CHRISTMAS is funny, heartfelt, and filled with uplifting moments. Its romantic-comedy framework gives the story charm, while Kate’s movement toward selflessness provides a strong emotional and moral center.
The film has a couple of slow parts, and some sections could have been better edited. Still, the overall result is entertaining enough that it could become a movie audiences watch each Christmas.
The Worldview
LAST CHRISTMAS presents a strong moral, redemptive worldview. It extols compassion, selflessness, helping others, and learning to love family members despite their quirks. Kate’s destructive lifestyle is shown, but the film ultimately rejects her partying, drinking, sleeping around, and self-centeredness rather than celebrating them.
The Christian references are overt. The movie begins and ends in a church, includes a Cross and a Crucifix, features a Christian homeless shelter and church mission, and points toward Heaven. A Catholic saint appears on a necklace. The film also includes references to a homosexual couple, along with romantic, lawless, and immoral behavior.
The movie’s central moral is that a person must learn to think of others instead of living only for themselves. That aligns with Scripture’s call to love others: “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong moral, redemptive worldview, with overt Christian references, extols compassion, being selfless, helping others, and families have to learn to get along and love each other, no matter their quirks, and includes a scene of a family at church in the beginning, a scene in a church at the end, a Cross and a Crucifix are shown, lead male character works at a Christian homeless shelter, and a Catholic saint appears on a necklace, with some Romantic, lawless, immoral behavior, and references to a homosexual couple
Foul Language
13 obscenities, five strong profanities, 12 light profanities
Violence
Surgery shown with some blood
Sex
References to character fornicating with different people each night, character mentions having extra-marital sex, some lewd jokes, one homosexual couple, and implied fornication when an unmarried character sleeps with another unmarried person and it turns out that that person is dating someone else
Nudity
No nudity though a character takes a shower but the shower curtain covers the nudity
Alcohol Use
Some drinking and drunkenness but drinking too much is rebuked
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking or drug use;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Lying, deception and selfishness but rebuked.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Kate’s choices hurt the people around her before she begins to change. What does it look like to move from selfishness toward serving others?
Philippians 2:3–4 · Mark 10:45Tom encourages Kate to look up and notice what is beyond herself. What helps you lift your attention from daily distractions toward God?
Colossians 3:1–2 · Psalm 121:1–2The film shows drinking, partying, and sexual immorality but ultimately rejects them. How can a story portray destructive choices without making them attractive?
Ephesians 5:15–18 · 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5Kate must learn to love people despite their quirks. What does love require when family members are difficult or different from us?
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 · Colossians 3:12–14The Final Word
LAST CHRISTMAS offers discerning adults a funny, heartfelt redemption story with overt Christian references and a strong moral center. Its profanity and sexual content make it unsuitable for children and young teens. For adults who can navigate those concerns, our answer is WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY. For a safer family choice, see.
