A Rose for Christmas

A nice romance around creating a float. Not impressive, maybe not real credible but good spices for an old recipe. Seductive and charming in few scenes, it has, in essence, as main characters, the huge bear and the waterfall. And, unfortunatelly, not real much.

He needs a float for his company she is the maker. They bicker and bicker then suddenly there is romance.

The float prep is interesting. Marc Bendavid and Rachel Boston are the couple.

Not quite enough for a romance movie.

At best, this movie showed the viewer some of the work that goes into preparing a float of the Rose Parade. That may be the most interesting part of this film. The lead actor is quite attractive and did his best in a role that was predictable but still romantic enough to satisfy the Hallmark movie viewer. The most distracting and almost irritating aspect of the film was Rachel Boston's performance. She is attractive, tall, slim, perky. But her acting range is so limited, it made the role too one dimensional..Her lines seem all to be at the same voice pitch and volume..twangy, flat and very loud. Whatever lines she was delivering all sounded too loud..too forced, not at all nuanced. Her delivery is one dimensional as well..through a smile and gritted teeth..She should have modulated her voice..her volume, her range of emotions in her lines. It is lovely to see an actress smile in film, but this actress smiled throughout every scene..so there was no range of emotions visible..

her costars did a great job..Her leading man is quite talented, handsome, romantic..just what a Hallmark movie watcher wants to see. But the lead actress needs some lessons in how to slow down, tone down, let the word s of the script determine her volume and her smile level

sorry..this film had great potential..but it became almost grating to have to watch it with the sound on.

Sorry.

Until I read another thread on here, I thought I was the only one who thought that Rachel Boston shouted her lines instead of delivering them in a normal voice. Does she believe her audience are all hard of hearing ? with that and her constant wide eyed form of acting, she is always an irritating watch.

HALLMARK, whoever is responsible for the set dressing can they please make the snow look more realistic !! the 'melting' pavement snow is so obviously white sheeting, that one of the characters almost tripped up as her foot caught in the fabric when she was in shot and walking along !!! I did laugh.

The storyline was different and the rest of the cast made it an easy view.

Even by Hallmark standards, this film is dreadful. Companies do not send liaisons to oversee the structural designs of parade floats. If they did, it wouldn't be a pompous middle management who conducts international business for the company. The dialogue is just horrible and seems like it was written by an amateur. Rachel Boston must not read this scripts or she is obligated to do whatever Hallmark throws her way. Sad.