Holiday in Handcuffs

2007
6.1| 1h30m| en
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A ne’er-do-well thirty-something attempts to appease her family by kidnapping herself an attractive boyfriend for the family Christmas. Despite unlikely odds and dysfunctional family moments, the two fall in love and share a magical Christmas.

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Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Julia George This movie is a great chick flick. I definitely recommend it. Melissa Joan Hart as the main actress did a great job in the beginning when it opens up as she is doing her hair you can tell that she is going somewhere important. Melissa Joan Hart is also on a TV series Melissa and Joey, also Sabrina the teenage witch. She started out as a young actress and is now very famous.Mario Lopez who is the main actor in this movie did a great job. He is originally famous for saved by the bell. In this movie you got to see him as a mature grown business man getting ready to propose to his girlfriend. When Melissa takes him by surprise and kidnaps him so that he can play her fake boyfriend is a great story line.The storyline provides great chemistry between the actors and actresses and the ending took me by surprise. It was so cute.The supporting actors and actresses did a good job. The parents didn't really act like normal parents. They just went with whatever they're daughter said about her boyfriend. But the fact that she had to lie about her boyfriend just to please her parent is sad.
MartianOctocretr5 An utterly ridiculous premise. A girl breaks up with her boy friend, and kidnaps a guy with hand cuffs to get him to pose as her boy friend for Christmas with her family. Make sense? Of course not, but it doesn't matter.Even using her Sabrina powers, I doubt the tiny MJ Hart could over power Mario Lopez. Nor is it likely the parents would be fooled by this absurd scheme, especially when the guy starts yelling to them for help! Well, it's a rom-com, so anything goes. On top of that, the Christmas theme demands the exact sentimental outcome you'll see coming more than 50 light years away. Even if you can't give it the poetic license it needs (a lot, lol), you can still laugh at how ludicrous the whole thing is.Silly nonsense, but utterly harmless. For a brainless diversion, this one, believe it or not, works.
freakfire-1 This movie sure did have a lot of sexual puns for an ABC Family holiday special. It wasn't just here and there, but it was damn near every 2-3 minutes. And Mario Lopez seems to still be a man of affection for lonely and/or rich girls. Because he got the attention of 3, including the grandma, in this movie.Anyway, Mario Lopez is taken hostage. Yes it can be done and no you should not do it. Because if you do that, he might think its an acting gig. The reason for this kidnapping is because Melissa Joan Hart lost her boyfriend and needs a new one to take home to the family.And this just opens up a whole bunch of sexual innuendos and secrets the family is keeping from each other. Yet somehow Mario and Melissa end up happy together. Huh. A corny Christmas love story.While the ending is casual, the material is not. So because it was actually funny at times, it gets a decent grade. Aside for the scene at the beginning, it all ties in too. "C+
dickjones87 This was a cute TV movie of the week that I discovered to be a lot more fun then I would have ever thought. Melissa Joan Hart's character is a down and out waitress that kidnaps Mario Lopez and takes him home to her family, forcing him to be her boyfriend. I've never seen such a storyline before, and the silliness of it all was made it so great. The actors who played the parents were a lot of fun, even a visible aged Markie Post. Sorry I just keep thinking of her "Night Court" days back in the 80s, and it's harsh to see her so worn out and old looking. The only other bad thing was that Hart wasn't as pretty or hot as she could be, she is not in the same "league" of Mario Lopez so that part of the story was a bit hard to swallow to. But then again, she's the chick and he's the man, so if she's less attractive then audiences are probably more willing to buy it then if it were the other way around. I am a straight guy, but I found myself sitting there thinking how hot Mario Lopez was, and forgetting about the female leads.