Billy bob thornton returns to star as criminal santa impersonator willie stokes in this festive black comedy sequel. still the same drunken, greedy guy, willie and his sidekick marcus (tony cox) conspire to make a big score this christmas, by robbing a chicago charity. this time they have some help, even if it is a little unwelcome, from willie's mother, sunny (kathy bates). she is as ambitious as she is crass, so she ought to fit right in. but things might get even find out more...
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...