athunderstorm

This Christmas I've been binging Hallmark Christmas movies. I've found a lot of them to be sweet and funny and at least somewhat relatable. This one was my least favourite so far.

Alicia Witt plays this childish, cute woman with a sort of stiff face, unless she laughs out loud for unfathomable reasons. A lot of what's said you can predict a few seconds before, leaving you bored and unengaged, as it feels like "you've heard it, before you've heard it".

Nothing sweet, funny or relatable with this one. The whole film made me restless.

The name is a bit cheesy, but the film really isn't.

There are some truly beautiful moments between the lead characters and the dialogue is believable and sometimes quite deep. They talk about grief and loss in a very true way and still somehow manage to bring Christmas spirit to the plot.

I've seen plenty of Christmas movies, but this might well be my favourite.