Review of On the 2nd Day of Christmas

mary stuart masterson as patricia tracy is a down- on -her luck young mother of 'patsy'-- they go into a department store and 'trish' encourages her daughter to shoplift- something- so she will have a gift for christmas---- bert ''mark ruffalo'' the store detective catches them and is supposed to turn them over to the police.--- since it is christmas eve,- bert decides to wait and have them spend christmas at his home. ---they get acquainted and he understands what is happening in their lives-- and becomes determined to try to help them get out of the legal situation.----- this still isn't a wonderful review,-but i hope it is smoother than my first try--i love mary and want to review more of her movies, but i watched them all so long ago---mary stuart masterson became a mother - of her only child-- last fall. -mary was born in 1966.