Six Degrees Of Santa has a very cute gift giving premise in it. However, in real life, it would only work with a group of friends. The holiday spirit isn’t that strong between strangers.

Harper (Kathryn Davis) has created a program called Six Degrees of Santa. One person gives a gift to a second person, who enjoys the gift then passes it on to a third person. This continues until the gift has reached the sixth person, who gets to keep the gift. Tech businessman, Jason (Steve Lund), received a children’s book that was originally gifted by Harper. He makes it his mission to figure out who was his First Santa.

In the movie, strangers graciously hand the Santa present onto other people. I don’t believe that would actually happen. Either the person receiving the gift would never open it. (Honestly, who opens gifts left by strangers on park benches?) Or someone along the line wouldn’t pass on the gift. This situation only works when people are held accountable in some way.

As for the movie itself, it’s decent. It has the usual pitfalls - the conflict could easily be solved if everyone would just have a conversation about it. But the acting isn’t terrible. Davis and Lund have a bit of chemistry. Not enough to make the movie amazing but enough that it’s believable that they would get together. I do wish we got to see a little more of the gift giving aspect between other people, even if I do think it’s unrealistic. It would have been cute to see people in the background handing the Santa boxes off to other people.

Six Degrees Of Santa is one of those movies that is perfectly fine to watch. Maybe with a mug of cocoa and your phone nearby in case you get bored.