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Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage
Barely Enough Light

I honestly can’t think of a decent film inspired by a single painting. I can, however, think of several outstanding films inspired by an artist’s body of work: Pollock, Shine, Amadeus, Ray, and Bird come easily to mind—as do others of good repute that I have not seen. The best such biopics are those in which the level of the filmmaking artistry rises to the level of the art which inspired the film. Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage is a film which, for better or worse, rises to the level of its inspiration—but no further.