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Set behind the German lines in the Second World War, this is a story of a romance that blossoms in the build up to Christmas in 1944.

The very handsome Captain (Craig Olejnik) leads his troops to a remote house, where they are offered refuge and aid by a beautiful girl and her Mother.

The acting isn't always on form, but once again it is nice to see a seasonal film that doesn't follow the trend of many others. I actually think they could have made it longer and included more interaction with the rest of the platoon -their girls at home, etc, but as it is, it's just fine.

Sweet and simple, just like me.

If you want historical or technical accuracy, apparently this isn't your movie. Watch the history channel. Over and above the technical inaccuracies, I did find the Captain's distractions from duty to be annoying. The story circumstances also seem completely unbelievable, but this is a Christmas movie, so go with it.

This movie is a different approach to Christmas romance. The romance is sweet. As to story, there is more conflict than the dozens of Christmas movies on the main Christmas movie channels, and it includies war violence. There is drama.

At certain points, the dialogue is a little high-brow or esoteric.

The ending? What can I say that's not a spoiler. I guess I can say it has the same good characteristics and bad as the rest of the movie.

This movie was so rife with historical inaccuracies that I just had to turn it off. The movie shows airmen outside a B-17, then shows them airborne in a C-47. The "medic" is a lieutenant. Of course, all combat medics were and still are enlisted men, not officers. One of the U.S. soldiers was African-American, while the others were white. African-Americans served in the US Army with great distinction in WWII, but there were no racially integrated units. The plane drew a great deal of flak, but flak batteries were not present in remote areas where this plane was dropping its soldiers. And flak was ineffective at night against a single plane. It required searchlights to ID large formations of attacking planes so that their altitude could be determined to properly set fuses on AAA shells. Then the fuselage was perforated at 8-inch intervals by machine-gun bullets while the plane is shown above the clouds. Of course ground fire could not do that at such an altitude, and there were no attacking enemy planes. After parachuting from the stricken plane, the medic attending his comrade with a broken leg, exclaims that they need to "find medical supplies," as if a combat medic would enter the battlefield without supplies. The group of soldiers is then given shelter in the heroine's barn. The temperatures during the Battle of the Bulge were the lowest in Europe in decades, but the soldiers are shown in the barn with the lights on (BEHIND GERMAN LINES at night) with their coats off and perfectly functional windows and doors wide open. The reason for the light is that the fool captain has a fountain pen and a bottle of ink working on the novel he's writing! OMG. Finally, the American captain is wearing bright, not subdued, rank insignia on his helmet and one epaulet but not the other. Of course, this display of rank would have drawn sniper fire directly to him, so only subdued insignia was worn in combat areas What finally made me turn the TV off was when the captain tells the girl that he attended "Texas A&M." However, that school was named AMC (Agricultural and Mining College) for almost TWENTY YEARS AFTER WWII. It was not renamed, Texas A&M until 1963! Believe it or not, I omitted much of the stupidity perpetrated by the producers, writers, and directors

It's clear that none of the scores of people responsible for this movie had an IQ above 30. It was perhaps the worst attempt at a period piece I've ever seen in my life -- just pathetic. It is so bad that it would actually be offensive to anyone who served in the ETO.

Enjoyable enough if you can subdue your angry reaction to errors, stupidity and Canadian insecurity. The camera work is good.Thats about all that is. But the acting is pitiful, the effects artificial and the ending appallingly predictable. Christmas movies, with few exceptions, are hopelessly bad but this one must be in the top (bottom?)ten. So many errors... The US armed forces were not racially integrated at the time. Women did not walk around rural areas in occupied Belgium wearing designer clothing. And how, in the name of all reason and common sense could a 50 pound sack of Canadian Redpath sugar from Montreal, a rather blatant product placement, end up in a rural house in 1944 occupied Belgium? And once again our milquetoast Canadian filmmakers show their lack of backbone. This was a Canadian produced and Canadian tax subsidized film. Then WHY IN HELL is the story about American rather than Canadian soldiers????

A friend of mine, who is a romantic, recommended this movie. Luckily, ION showed it one more time, and I was totally engrossed. The theme of the story is humanity, even in time of war. The movie illustrates how love can come in many forms--romance, brotherhood, family, compassion, etc. I loved the quotes by famous writers, especially the one about tomorrow by John Wayne. When I googled the Duke, I discovered several of his quotes. Although I read that there were errors in the film, I easily overlooked them for the sake of the story. As a writer myself, I've sometimes used artistic license as needed. If this movie comes out in DVD, I'll definitely buy it!

Even though this really happened, it was British soldiers and Germans, there were no Americans involved, pathetic to change a true story to again make the Americans look like heroes, every time they change history, they look like fools.......very good movie about it called Joyeux Noel

I did not plan on watching this movie. I had just turned off my work laptop after dealing with over stress. I turned on the TV and ended up at the beginning of this movie and I am so glad I did. It had me forget everything else but the movie and for that alone I appreciate the movie. For me, the movie was perfect. A good story, good acting, good camera work. There may have been a detail or two that was historically incorrect but I did not notice and I didn't care. I highly recommend this movie if you want a good story and sit back and relax in the Christmas spirit. It will become one of my favorite Christmas movies right up there with 'A Christmas Carol' which also had an inaccuracy (cameraman in glass). Best enjoyable time out I have had all season.

As a historian and a sucker for 'Hallmark Christmas Movies', I looked forward to this movie. Unfortunately it was a total waste of my time. Poor acting, a horrible script and bad filming. All crew should be ashamed for taking part of this "movie"...

I wanted a fact-based story about the real event that took place during WW I. I should have read the reviews before I rented it. It was a nice love story with some good acting but not at all what I was looking for. It took place during WW II and was pretty disappointing. Low budget film for sure.

I love Christmas movies! And I love historical movies set in WWII. I have no trouble forgetting all logic for a good story. But this movie is just ridiculous!! More holes than Swiss cheese in the storyline. It doesn't even have that good old feel good ending that most Christmas movies do. What a waste of two hours. I'm so disappointed.

The haters will go crazy with this film, but let them wallow in it, it seems to give their fragile egos a boost. I'm not usually a huge fan of Hallmark type Christmas movies and as a veteran, I gave this movie a chance despite expecting to be appalled, but I was very pleasantly surprised. If you just want to sit back, put the fire on and enjoy a great story (yes it's fiction...relax for crying out loud), this has to be one of the most romantic and heartwarming films I've ever seen. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Olejnik's (The Listener) acting continues to be excellent and his leading woman, Ali Liebert couldn't have given a better performance. She is also truly stunning in this movie. As one who has had the pleasure of bringing both German and Canadian veterans together as brothers caught up in a war, this "story " was a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. I highly recommend it to those who "enjoy" movies.

It's nice to see a Christmas movie that doesn't involve silly premises. World War II has been a forgotten war and I'd rather see a romance in that era than the same-old same-old Christmas formula set in LA or NYC.

Everybody makes fun of the Hallmark Christmas movies genre but this one takes a different tack. It is well acted and quite touching.

Another typical Xmas movie. You know exactly what's going to happen at the end! I watched it because I needed some sound around the house. For that it served well. Other than that, oh well...