8-Bit Christmas Ending Explained: Why The Present Twist Is Perfect

Warning! SPOILERS for 8-Bit Christmas

Adapted from Kevin Jakubowski's 2013 novel of the same name, 8-Bit Christmas is a nostalgia-heavy Christmas movie with a twist ending that says more about the value of family than of gift-giving during the holidays. Directed by Michael Dowse (Goon, Stuber), 8-Bit Christmas stars Neil Patrick Harris as its semi-lead character and main narrator who, like the narrator of the 1983 classic A Christmas Story, covers the events leading up to one particularly...