8-Bit Christmas (2021) on Netflix
In late 1980s Chicago, ten-year-old Jake Doyle wants a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas. His parents refuse, and the richest kid in his grade is the only one with a Nintendo.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb6.7/1025,582 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes84%
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Plot summary
At Christmas, Jake Doyle tells his daughter Annie about the December he remembers from his childhood in suburban Chicago, when he was ten and wanted a Nintendo Entertainment System. Every day the school gathers outside the home of Timothy Keane, the richest boy in Jake's grade, who chooses ten children to play in his basement. Jake asks his mother Kathy and his father John for a console of his own and is turned down. Hearing that a Scout fundraiser for Christmas wreaths offers a Nintendo as its first prize, he and his friends try to sell the most wreaths. His sister Lizzy longs for a Cabbage Patch Kids doll, so Jake passes along hints about it to their parents in return for her help with his sales.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 8-Bit Christmas (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's story is set in 1989, a date that can be pinned down by the Nintendo Power Glove, released in the U.S. in October 1989, and the profanity on the Bill Ripken baseball card from Fleer's 1989 set.
