MoPoshy
Absolutely brilliant
ChicRawIdol
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Jenna Walter
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Christmas-Reviewer
BEWARE OF FALSE REVIEWS & REVIEWERS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW TO THEIR NAME. NOW WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MOVIE. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THE FILM . NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 300 HOLIDAY FILMS. I HAVE NO AGENDA.While unknowingly on air, a TV personality accidentally admits she hates Christmas. In order to keep her job her boss sends her to a small town. The town in called "Hollyvale" Here she do news stories about this town and how the town is crazy about "Christmas". So she does daily stories from "Hollyvale"Coming with her is her ex-boyfriend who also happens to be her boss. The acting is fine. Christmas Movie fans will love this film.
NJS
OK...I felt this movie lacked hearat! It's about a famous news anchor/reporter and her "best"friend from college/producer that ended up going to a small town to report on Christmas. I am a big fan of Lifetime movies and no matter how corny, predictable, etc. I still love them. This one was disappointing! I like Lori Loughlin but in this movie, I didn't feel it with her. She seemed negative from beginning to end. Very little emotion and warmth. There is a scene in the beginning where the two check into a hotel. A teenager, who works at the hotel, (Loughlin's actual daughter) carries their heavy suitcases up the stairs and neither character offers to help this woman, a star-struck girl. Like I said, it just lacked any warmth, love, emotion, etc.
hedwigbasz
Watched it when it premiered, and I wasn't crazy about this. Felt that the main female character's confession about not liking Christmas was handled very over the top, being conveniently paired with an old college flame as her current TV producer. Loved seeing Willie Aames (an old crush) but have to agree with another reviewer--if Christmas devastated him so much, why was his home decorated like an enchanted Christmas village (gorgeous however). Wasn't crazy about Lori Loughlan's character. No wonder she wasn't married--she was a pretty hard lined you know what. Felt the father/daughter relationship was irrelevant to the story line, almost coming out of nowhere, as the writers felt that strained father/daughter relationship would help heal Kate's hatred of Christmas. That part of the story could have been easily left out, as I felt it contributed nothing. Perhaps she and Colin Ferguson's character (forget name) breaking up at Christmas would have been a better catalyst for Kate's yucky Yuletides and their reconciliation at Christmas be the Christmas miracle she always wanted. Would I watch this again? I don't think so.
boblipton
When newsreader Lori Loughlin says on air that she doesn't like Christmas, she and her producer, ex-lover Colin Ferguson are shipped to Christmas-centric Hollyvale so she can "find her Christmas spirit". Can she do that when the town seems to be losing its own? I sat down to watch this Hallmark TV Christmas movie, expecting it to be pretty much predictable, standard fare, but soon found it something entirely different. The script started in one direction and quickly veered into a mystery about the town and then into yet another one, eventually revealing itself as a meditation on what Christmas means to people in a secular age.Although the stand-out role in these movies is usually some old-time performer in a support role, intended to please old geezers like me ("These young whippersnappers don't know how to hold your attention!"), here the laurels belong to Mr. Ferguson with his rubber-faced reaction shots. Well done all around!
