Christmas Lost and Found

Cute Christmas movie with good actors. It's a little cheesy but still watchable.

I like Dianne Ladd. she is a great grandmother type in these roles. With a twinkle and some sass. The story was not terribly unique, but it was easy watching and I did not get bored. The sets were good and the two leads did a very good job. They were not bland holiday movie actors. Tiya Sircar has spark and the childhood buddy/neighbor played by Edward Ruttle was quite good. They elevated it. Enjoyable, watchable holiday movie.

I admitt , I love this film for the beautiful work of Diane Ladd. Her performance reminds, in so high measure, my own grandmother. I love it of the interrassial solution.

The problem - off course - the scavenger hunt. First, because it becomes only a cliche of the Hallmark Christmas films. Second, because in this case is not just inspired used because in a Christmas film, fair and easy is to remind the virtues of generosity.

The last - the too obvious accent on memories. No doubts, them are very important, but their birth and survive has a different mechanism and, used in this case, it has the bad luck to become absurd, an exercise of exhibitionism or only an improvised cheesy, pinky solution.

But, a nice film. And I reppeate, the contribution of Diane Ladd is huge in this sense.

By "pleasant enough", I mean it was sweet, with references to past family Christmases, had some attractive Christmasy scenes, and the acting was OK, incl. veteran Diane Ladd. But the part I wasn't crazy about was: the whole scavenger hunt premise was unrealistic. Once the ornaments and notes start appearing, Whitney should have been SO happy that SOMEBODY found the ornaments and saved them. Instead, we're supposed to believe all she's interested in is figuring out the riddles of where the next ornament is, and who sent it.

Tiya Sircar has a lot of charmand is good looking. The rest of supporting star cast also play their part, in this interesting tale of looking for discarded family jewellery.