CHRISTMAS ON MAVIS STREET is a comic and nostalgic movie about Catholic school, childhood and family in the 1950s—following poor little Ray Bellini as he pines after the most beautiful girl in the sixth grade, determined to kiss her by Christmas. 

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CHRISTMAS ON MAVIS STREET is a comic and nostalgic movie about Catholic school, childhood and family in the 1950s, following poor little Ray Bellini as he pines after the most beautiful girl in the sixth grade, determined to kiss her by Christmas.

It is a funny, nostalgic episodic adventure—bringing to life a bygone era and celebrating family, friends, love and childhood.

Ray’s heartthrob is Theresa Mangiaverde, a blonde blue-eyed beauty who is unattainable. Ray perseveres. Along the way he and his pals encounter adventures, disasters and triumphs at their grammar school run by Dominican nuns—Our Lady of the Very Long Thorns in Providence, Rhode Island.

Altar boys. Spelling. Math. Uniforms. Catechism. Latin. Gregorian Chant. Clapping erasers. Diagramming sentences. Sins. Grace. Sacraments. Processions. School plays. Milk Money. Nuns. Mother Superior.

Everything builds to a climax on Christmas Eve, when Ray confronts who he is and who he wants to be.