I'm surprisingly a Big Fan of Fruitcake and we have always bought from a different maker. But after watching this I bought one for this company. And it did NOT disappoint. It was Delicious. If you haven't ever had one, give it a try. This show broke my heart and without spoiling everything, I'm glad that the ones that did what they did got what they got, except for Sandy's outcome. I would have rather seen him rot in jail. But definitely worth taking the time to watch.

"Die Hard" wasn't intended to be a Christmas movie, but many of us would argue to the death that it is.

The producers of "Fruitcake Fraud" didn't make the mistake of pretending there wasn't a Christmas theme. It was filled with Christmas music and fruitcake references.

As a true crime fan, I was vaguely aware of this case, and may even have seen this on another show. But the production values of this documentary were excellent. The cast of characters who brought the crime to life made me feel like I was in this quirky, enchanting corner of Texas. I'd love to have a piece of fruitcake with any of them.

The crime's victims survived, a little poorer but wiser. The perpetrators were so empty that no amount of money could make them whole. I kept hoping the fraudster could meet an angel like "It's a Wonderful Life's" Clarence, or a friend like Al in "Die Hard."

Fruitcake Fraud is an entirely glib and superficial documentary that illuminates nothing whatsoever, and when all is said and done, amounts to a glossy but overlong advertisement for the Collins Avenue Bakery's pricey fruitcakes. The essence of it is that a bakery employee and his wife managed to embezzle somewhere in the neighborhood of $17 million from the benighted management of the company, but since most of the film is endless shots of fruitcakes rolling down the assembly line interspersed with quickie interviews with employees, mostly played for laughs, we never get to learn anything about the perpetrator outside of the basic facts -- he stole a whole bunch of money and eventually went to the hoosegow. The interviews and the ad nauseam fruitcake factory footage pads the length of this film out from the 30 or so minutes that might have been interesting to a whopping hour and forty minutes of sheer boredom. The Collins Street Bakery does make a good fruitcake, but this glossy exercise in promotional banality is an utter failure as a film. 4 stars for a couple of chuckles here and there.