Neil Patrick Harris stars as an adult Jake Doyle who tells this story to his daughter, an angle that makes this film feel like a new take on A Christmas Story. Set in Chicago during both modern day and the late ’80s, 8-Bit Christmas tells the story about Jake Doyle and his quest to get a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas.
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Positive Content: Without spoiling the ending, the overall lesson of the movie is a positive one and won’t give false hope to kids that watch it. One scene depicts two characters buying a Christmas gift from a scalper. Other Negative Themes: A crowd of kids and even a few adults offer bribes in hopes of playing the illustrious video game console. Spiritual Content: The film focusses on the secular meaning of Christmas. Sexual Content: Boys trade a copy of Sports Illustrated with a woman wearing a bikini on the front cover and refer to it as a “nudie magazine”.ĭrug/Alcohol Use: Adults drink beer and wine socially.
A kid eats a large number of Spaghetti-Os and regurgitate’s them on command. Lastly, a blurred image and a conversation about baseball cards, with one of them having the words “f-face” on a player’s bat. Language/Crude Humor: We have frequent use of mild language-”h*ll,” “frickin,” “d*mn.” A “GD” is used once, but one character frequently uses “God bless it” throughout the film. Later, we see the dog in bandages with a collar with blood on it. Violence/Scary Images: A character is punched at a mall. 8-Bit Christmas received a PG rating for mild violence, language, and suggestive references.