“Merry Good Enough” is an indifferent, listless and generally lifeless holiday comedy built around the admission, “It’s the holidays. We’re all a little suicidal.”

It’s about three unhappy 30ish children coming home to their long-divorced mom in Massachusetts suburbia wondering what the chances are that they could “wake up and be the perfect family.”

“Slim to none” seems like the safe answer.

When your only laugh line is uttered by actress Raye Levine to actor Sawyer Spielberg — “I always wished that I was Jewish.” — you have to know you aren’t quite “getting into the Christmas spirit.”

A leaden prologue introduces us to Lucy (Levine), who gets lectured on how “No one likes a Scrooge” over the holidays on the slowest elevator ride in Greater Boston.

She’s going “home” for Christmas, to the small-town Massachusetts where she grew up. Flaky Mom (Susan Gallagher) seems more forgetful than usual. When they get into an argument over Mom leaving a wedding album out to remind Lucy of her failed marriage, they fight.

Lucy and just-flew-in-from-Singapore brother Tim (Daniel Desmaris) wake up to an empty house. Mom is nowhere to be found, unreachable by phone.

Youngest sister Cynthia (Comfort Clinton) is hardly surprised. She’s a hard-driving Chicago lawyer with a fiance and big plans and little patience for her older sister/Mom drama.

Lucy seems the most concerned, but even she — like everybody else — kind of takes Mom disappearing in stride. We don’t need that much-delayed moment of checking the bathroom to see what medications Mom is on to get the drift.

She’s depressed. This is kind of in-character. Her long-divorced husband, a big shot TV host, shows up and confirms that.

By the way? Jovial, upbeat Joel Murray in this part is the life of this listless party.

“Merry Good Enough” is a motion picture of long, static stretches scored with colorless conversations and Christmas carols. We’re treated to a little eggnog dance party montage, a trip to the skating rink, and a stop at the police station — almost as an afterthought — to report a missing person.

There is history in this house and “baggage” in every trip to the store, the rink and that police station.

Levine makes a passable lead, but pairing her up with the neighbor boy (Spielberg), now all grown up and between love affairs, pays zero dividends.

The clumsy plot advances at a crawl, the resolution is nonsensical and a downmarket bar interlude is lame enough to make one long for the pleasures, the stakes and the performances of “The Family Stone” or any of a dozen other imperfect but as least lively and life-affirming holiday movies.

“Merry Good Enough” isn’t even good enough for The Hallmark Channel.

Rating: unrated, some profanity

Cast: Raye Levine, Susan Gallagher, Daniel Desmaris, Comfort Clinton, Sawyer Spielberg, and Joel Murray.

Credits: Directed by Caroline Keene, scripted by Caroline Keene and Dan Kennedy. A Freestyle release.

Running time: 1:37