the film's director joins us now, lee toland kroeger, excellent cast and crewing to help bring this story. because we talked not long ago, and you have connections to philadelphia. tell us about it. >> yes, my mom is from wynnewood. >> nice. >> i spent a lot of christmasses here, a lot of holidays. my grandmother lived here her whole life. and i haven't been back since she passed away, unfortunately, but loved the city. >> great. do you have do a film here soon. >> fingers crossed, i would love to you. >> heard me, i called it modern fairytale. would you agree with that? why or why not? >> absolutely, mover that i has this magical realism hook to it, you know, she has this accident, stops aging the rest of the movies played fairly straight, kind of like big, where he sort of has one moment where he wakes up as tom hanks the rest of the movie played pretty straight. you know, emotional steaks are all pretty grounded. if that makes sense. >> sure. eustace multifaceted love story, if you will. which love story would you say is the most powerful of them all? >> i think certainly the connectio