The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 2024 Reviews And Complaints. In fact, dallas jenkins’ “the best christmas pageant ever,” from lionsgate and based on barbara robinson’s beloved 1972 book, might just be the next holiday classic,. How it got so great the film, based on a 1972 children’s book by barbara robinson, tells the story of an unlikely group of kids.

Barbara robinson’s 1972 book about the worst children in the world taking all the lead roles in a church christmas pageant has been lovingly adapted by director dallas jenkins. While its religious themes are.