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This is not quite up to middling Hallmark Xmas movie standards (low enough anyway) but I wasn't as outraged at the ending as many others (perhaps because I read the spoilers first?) Enjoyable for 70 minutes or so and nonsensical for the rest, but I'm not going to complain.

My son told me to watch this one as part of my 100 Christmas movies before Christmas day challenge.

I'm glad he did as I really enjoyed it. I love how Christmassy it is. I would love to live there haha.

It was a nice movie and I will watch it again.

Probably the worst Hallmark movie ever. Stupidity and greed win the day. I wish there was some way to unwatch this piece of rubbish.

Idiotic lead, greedy developer "wins", poor townsfolk saving the day. Seriously who wrote this and thought it would leave people with a happy Christmas feeling? Even worse who sanctioned it to be made?

Yea, I know Hallmark Christmas movies are full of make believe and magical stuff, but they normally leave you suspending disbelief and walking away with at least a bit of a smile on your face. This one was the exact opposite.

Be warned, if you do watch it, you will not have a smile on your face at the end.

It is a Xmas movie, right? How the heck do they have an immoral, greedy real estate developer come out a huge winner? On top of that they put him (Mason) in a major scene with townspeople and it is all smiles. When they should have been running him out of town tarred and feathered.

How Mason became a 'winner' is nonsensical. It calls for signing a million dollar+ contract with a 'stranger' and without reading it.

Two weeks to renovate a run down Christmas Land and all we see is a single purchase of a few cans of paint. Voila, it is magically as great looking as in years gone by.

Did you know that a coffee can,not even a large one, cannot hold hundreds of thousands of dollars? Finally, our 'hero' attorney can not come up with a single creative approach to help nail greedy, immoral Mason.

One of my wife's favorite things to do leading up to and during Christmas is to watch Hallmark Christmas movies. So we've watched a lot. I've come to expect the normal formula for this type of movie: setup a situation with someone who has some sort of anti-Christmas issue, then they somehow overcome it (and most likely an antagonist) and all is well by the end of the movie, with the added bonus that most of the time someone falls in love as well. The plots differ, but there is a basic formula. This movie takes a slightly different approach but it falls into the general category. You also have to expect that the movie will be somewhat unrealistic when compared to real life, but that is what makes it fun watching, especially at Christmas. I think everyone, deep down, wants a "happily ever after" ending and Hallmark movies always deliver. Well until now and if you watch this movie. I will not go into the details (you can read the other reviews with spoilers, which I recommend before investing the time to watch this movie) but the way they ended this movie just made me shake my head. I was frustrated enough with the plot development and final conflict resolution that I created an account on IMDb to vent, I looked for a way on Hallmark's site but did not see a user review section.

I was actually surprised the overall rating was so high, considering how much of a downer the ending was. I almost gave it a 1 to do something about it, but ended up giving it a 2 because of the two lead characters. Their acting was good and their chemistry was engaging. They did their part, its just too bad that the writer, producer or director did not.

If you want the typical feel good ending so that you can feel better about humanity during the Christmas season, one that Hallmark usually provides, then DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE, find another!