Catch a Christmas Star

Absolutely one of the few 'fantasy celebrity' movies that had a most realistic ambiance ! I am a 60 year old (masculine) widower; so besides tears, (joyful & sad), I was smiling with a very warm heart! The actors, ALL of them, were awesome! And the music! Wow! Thanks Hallmark!

Keith.

This is a cute romantic Christmas themed film that Mrs. Shullivan and I have now watched it twice as it was such a FEEL GOOD film the first time we decided to watch it this Christmas season again. Widower Chris Marshall has been busy and pre-occupied raising his two children Sophie and carrot top Jackson on his own for the past five (5) years with little regard given to his own personal life taking a backstage to any romantic involvement.

After five (5) years since Chris's wife passed away his two children find out from their Uncle Jason (Billy MacLellan) that their dad and the number one (1) singing star in the country Nikki Crandon (Shannon Elizabeth) were teenage first crush's so they decide to play Cupid and get them back together again.

Fame can be both a blessing and a curse and Nikki and Chris rekindle their once very strong relationship only to have Nikki's fame get in the way once more. But this being the Christmas season and family and love being important to all you can guess how this film ends can't you? Hey, we watched it twice so it is well worth watching at least once. I give it a favorable IMDb rating of a 6 out of 10.

I liked the movie. Steve Byers as the lead guy was great. He also played in Christmas Cure (2017) which I rated low as a 6. Also liked the girl who played his daughter. We had a few good songs like I hear the bells on Christmas day. Story had some depth to it. Remember the quote by the lead Shannon Elizabeth "Being famous hasn't changed who I am but it has changed how everyone treats me". Thought her performance was adequate if that was her singing- I liked that. I did not like the part of her male assistant Carmine in this movie. A strange character who was attracted to the Steve Byers character along with our female lead. Why put this character in the movie unless this is a part of stardom. It did not distract too much and wasn't so obvious as to discourage watching with our children.

I picked this movie to watch because I recognised the main actress and wanted to also cross off another Christmas movie from my challenge.

I enjoyed the movie. It had a nice story to it and as a dad myself, I kinda related to how he wanted the best for his kids. It was sweet.

Although I enjoyed it, im not sure if its one of them movies where I would watch again. Maybe.

This now takes my Christmas movies to 28 out of 100.

I assumed this was a new movie until I looked it up. I must have missed it previously. It's thoroughly enjoyable - unrealistic, it's true, but most movies are unrealistic. That's why we watch them - escapism - and if I'm going to see unrealistic fiction I like it to be happy and have some good music and a couple of cute kids who, of course, are wiser than the adults. This movie has all of that. Maybe the villains - the record company man and the actor - could have been nastier but we end up hating them anyway. I could have done without the 'camp' assistant in his pink jacket but I guess there has to be one. I struggled to decide whether Shannon Elizabeth did her own singing or not. If she did, Hallmark really missed an opportunity by not producing a Mistletoe over Manhattan soundtrack album. A Christmas Cracker!