This year's holiday season might be some months away, but a good Christmas movie can touch its audience at any time. Thanks to that fact, classic holiday films endure in our hearts for years, even decades, mainly thanks to their characters and a meaning that goes deeper than merry Christmas decoration. This Christmas Chance is a movie that offers the exact same thing, mostly because it uses the holidays to tell a resonating story about making poor decisions and getting those rare, but crucial second chances in life and love. Here is how the film describes itself:
Chance Philips is a successful entrepreneur with a bright future and a dark past. While trying to build his business and right his wrongs, he meets Gabriel Dupree, a beautiful doctor who has a few secrets of her own. The two hit it off but everyone isn’t rooting for the new couple to succeed. The bitter, the broken, and the bad have aligned to destroy the couple’s chance for love and a joyous Christmas season.
The film was directed by William Collins and written by Leah Pride. It stars Benny L Andrews Jr. and Ashley Forrestier, alongside Ali Siddiq, who plays himself. Siddiq, whose unique style of stand-up got its start behind the walls of incarceration and later blossomed into a booming career. In 2022, Ali released a two-hour special called THE DOMINO EFFECT on YouTube. To date, THE DOMINO EFFECT four-part series has over 20 million views, ranking it in the top five most-watched comedy specials of all time. Like the film, Siddiq proves that second chances miracles happen every day.
He, along with the entire crew and cast, makes This Christmas Chance a truly unique film. The same is further enforced by the clear productional quality that puts the film on the same level as a big Hollywood release. But, ultimately, the key aspect of This Christmas Chance lies in the way it tells its story about giving love another chance, even when that chance seems a very distant possibility.
The entire film is available for free on YouTube and Tubi. Watch it right now, right here, and enjoy the holiday spirits in what is certainly going to become a classic Christmas movie!
