There is a wonderful classic movie called "Little Shop Around the Corner" starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan. Many remakes of it have been attempted and I wish everyone would just be content to let this little gem sparkle on its own down through the decades. Stewart and Sullivan are obviously the bones of the movie, but an absolutely stellar cast fills in the spaces. The setting is Christmas in Budapest in the 1940's. At the end, the elderly shop-owner whose marriage has just crumbled is alone on Christmas Eve and describes a dinner of roast goose to a hungry young apprentice while the snow is falling all around. The simple anticipated bond of a shared dinner on a lonely night shines anew each time I watch it.
In this season of sickening buying, returning, exchanging, re-gifting, and general discontent about what was given, what was spent, what was flaunted, I wander back to the streets of Budapest and find that a simple act of kindness makes my season bright indeed.
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