Ceticultsot
Beautiful, moving film.
Ava-Grace Willis
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
I-Love-The-Holidayz
This is a nice film to watch however you know how it will end by getting there is lots of fun and the film doesn't overdue the schmaltz.A beautiful antique store owner, Alice Chapman (Alicia Witt), travels to her fiancé's home town alone to meet her future in-laws for the first time at their Christmas gathering. Her fiancé, (A successful commercial real estate agent) Will Mitchum (Scott Gibson), tells her he will join them after closing an important business deal. Upon her arrival at the airport, she discovers that her luggage is lost. While completing the necessary paperwork, she meets Matt Mitchum (Mark Wiebe), who is also filling out a missing luggage report. She is surprised to learn that Matt is the brother of her fiancé "Billy". On their way to the family house, they get into a car accident and both end up in the hospital, where Alice learns that Matt broke off his engagement to a woman who refused to "walk through the rain" for him.This is well made. The last scene however seemed like it was added on because the film ran short. It was not needed. However the film does get right on how family is important to Alice.When these pops up watch it.
bookandcandle
Every year I look forward to the new Hallmark Christmas movies, as they are uplifting and fun. I even look forward to the repeats from years prior and wish Hallmark would bring back the older Christmas classics.I watched this movie for half an hour and then I turned it off. The music is so annoying and louder than the dialogue. It is not the softer kind of music. I call it the "bing-bong" music that is very distracting with sharp, striking notes that rise and fall. You have to try and listen to both the louder music and softer speaking. I wish the producer would call me and I'd play loud music in the background and see if this was not distracting to him. Every word should be able to be heard clearly. This is not a concert.I am not the only one who has complained to Hallmark about this sharp, irritating type of music in the background. Music should only be heard when there is a climatic scene or when people are not speaking. The older Hallmark movies were not like this. You did not have to strain your ears to listen to the dialogue. I just turn the movie off if it is like this. The music ruined the entire movie so it gets a 1 rating. Get on complaintsboard.com or reviewstalk.com and see all the complaints about Hallmark's loud annoying music. This is the majority speaking, not the few on here who like it.
Brandon Maynard
I found this to be the best Christmas movie of 2013 and I enjoy almost all of Hallmark's Christmas films. Alicia Witt going to the wrong family's home on a mistake was actually a stroke of fate.Grandpa was a fantastic character, especially in his scenes with Alice(Alicia Witt). Matt's parents were great as well, and her fiancé's family was stiff and horrible.Naturally, the happy ending saw Alice dump Will and end up with Matt, which is how it should be. Remember, folks, you shouldn't watch a Christmas movie for anything other than pure enjoyment and this film had it in spades.And oh, by the way, I DID NOT find the music distracting. In fact, I enjoyed it very much.
JaynaB
A charming, if predictable, holiday romance.Alicia Witt, as a sweet and artsy semi-ditz happily running her family's antique store, is engaged to a polished, money-focused, big-city real-estate salesman. Through a series of cute travel mishaps on her way to meet his family for the first time, she ends up at the wrong house a couple of days before Christmas. That warm, happy family, by a credulity-stretching coincidence, welcomes and cherishes her in their extremely - but tastefully - decorated home. Of course they have a very nice son who falls for her, and shares interests and values that aren't on her fiancé's radar. Complications, emotional struggles, and a happy resolution ensue.Apart from that one weak plot coincidence to get her into the family, and the general niceness of both men when the chips are down, the only thing that annoyed me was the heroine's little speech at the end, in which she declaimed about a character issue that was not well set up.Overall, a nice way to spend 2 hours while you're writing Christmas cards.
