There are numerous Christmas classics that we all know and love. And this year one has been added to the list. Lost Christmas is a poignant story that will touch the hearts of many. We are all familiar with A Christmas Carol, where we meet with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future. But what if we've forgotten one on this list? What about the Ghost of Christmas Lost?

We start the story of a young boy who goes by the nickname of Goose who receives a puppy as a Christmas present. As he is so keen to go for a walk with his dad and the dog, but his dad cannot join him and so a chain of events is set in motion. This child's simple wish of wanting his dad home rather than going to work will alter the course of many lives.

One night, Frank, Goose's uncle, meets Anthony a man he sees lying in the street, who seems to be babbling nonsense and vanishes as fast as he appears. Anthony seems to have no recollection of who he is, where he came from nor where he's supposed to go but he seems to know things. Find things that are lost and make lives whole again.

The performance of the cast was brilliant and intense. I fell in love with Anthony's innocence, inherent sweetness, fearlessness and brutal honesty. Eddie Izzard's performance is flawless and stellar. The way Eddie brought Anthony to life is done in such a manner that I will remember Anthony for each Christmas to come in my life. He might be the Ghost of Christmas Lost but I'll see him as an Angel too. I have seen almost all of Eddie's work and I must say this performance has to be one of his best.

In casting Larry Mills as Goose, we see a rare performance of a child that brings so much life to a character that he becomes real. I foresee a long career for this young man, that will take him many places. I can't wait to see what he will do next.

John Hay did a marvelous job into bringing the story to life, he has a great vision on how to bring raw emotions to the screen, so much so that you're not simply following a story on a screen but you're right there with them joining them on this incredible adventure. A rare and precious gift to have. The lingering camera shots all over the city bring you to a different world, indeed the world of an urban fairytale.

And in praise of the writers of the story, I love the fact that the story seems to work on so many levels so that both children and adults will appreciate the story. When children grow older and see the film again I am sure they will be amazed at realizing more and more of the underlying story they might have overlooked when younger.

All in all a wonderful, touching, loving Christmas story that will linger with you a long time after the film is done.

I don't know why this urban festive fairytale from 2011 doesn't get repeated every Christmas as - taking its cue from A Christmas Carol and It's A Wonderful Life, though still being distinctive enough in its own right - it has all the hallmarks of being an enduring, evergreen seasonal classic.

In turn, heartwarming and poignantly bittersweet, Lost Christmas rarely puts a foot wrong and in the central role, Eddie Izzard both impresses and suggests he has a future at the helm of the TARDIS should he ever consider it.

Films that rely upon divine intervention for their happy endings are, for the rational minded amongst us, inherently sad. For instance, most people think of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) as being a feel-good film, when in reality it is nothing of the sort. Remove the fantastical from the story, and all you are left with is one decidedly dead George Bailey. Whilst others are crying at the beautiful miracle of its resolution, the rest of us are left to cry at the tragedy of it all. And so for me, it is this other-worldly element, in all its brazen unreality, that underlines and accentuates the earthy crappiness that sits just below the surface of such tales to such a level that no social-realist misery-fest could ever hope to match it.

Which brings me to this charmingly diverting though decidedly imperfect "urban fairy-tale" - a child-centred cross between the aforementioned yuletide favourite and Charles Dickens's much filmed novella A Christmas Carol (1843) (with a bit of Shameless thrown in for good measure),in which a mysterious amnesia-suffering stranger (Izzard) helps several people, in particular an orphaned young boy (Mills),to find a number of seemingly-though-not-actually-unrelated things that they have lost, on an snowy Manchester Christmas Eve.

Despite the familiar-feeling storyline, Hay's reasonably well crafted film is seldom predictable, and its performances are all fine. However, Wiseman's score often feels rather intrusive and is more than a tad manipulative in spots, dampening its emotional power by overemphasising it. Nevertheless, by the time it reaches its surprisingly powerful conclusion, you'd have to be a particularly hard-hearted person not to be moved by its (not-really) happy ending in some way.

I'm a sucker for tales about redemption,and in "Lost Christmas" we have several redemptions for the price of one,interwoven round a brilliant performance by Mr Eddie Izzard as a kind of Clarence the angel waiting to earn his wings.A small boy hides his father's car keys at Christmas,triggering a series of events that expand like the ripples on a pond into a series of minor and major tragedies that are seemingly unconnected until the apparently amnesiac Anthony (Mr Izzard)arrives to eventually turn chaos into order,changing history at the same time. Like "Quantum Leap" with added holly and mistletoe really. I found it to be moving and generous of spirit,refreshingly lacking in the smart cynicism that infects so much TV today.If you want post - modern irony for Christmas,go and look elsewhere. At the end no one actually says "God bless us one and all",but the message is the same.