In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
Editor's Verdict
"The movie is explicitly set around the protagonist's birthday, which is used as the mechanism to introduce the game. While the movie is not traditionally 'Christmas,' the birthday gift exchange and the themes of transformation and recognizing the value of life (redemption) align closely with common Christmas movie emotional arcs. However, the setting and iconography are not explicitly Christmassy."
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