Hometown Holiday

I'll keep it brief. Not a convincing performance in the whole film. Poor chemistry between the leads, although their acting was ok. Some support performances were amateurish and clumsy. The script needed a rewrite & then maybe there's a half decent film in there.

The acting is bad by almost everyone except possibly Sarah Troyer. Mishael Morgan, as the original girlfriend, Amber, is especially bad - so cliche. Bradley Hamilton is pretty timid for a big city lawyer and just doesn't match up well with Troyer.

The story has many silly situations that just don't make sense even if they are supposed to be humorous. Other situations that aren't about humor are clumsy also. Grown adults are acting too much like high schoolers even for this type of movie. There is a bit too much musical montage. The movie covers more than just the Christmas season, but that's OK. On the plus side, the premise isn't completely based on overused tropes.

The ending, though just as ridiculous as anything, is kind of cute and unique.



P.S. I noticed a lot of reviews with either very high or very low ratings and most had very short, generic text - almost all have reviews of no other movies.

How old is Bradley Hamilton (Ryan) ? 15 ? Even on his IMDB there is no age for him, - so that's a bit suspect. Acting? like its his first job, wooden, so a broom handle would have as much romance in it as he did.

As for the rest of the film, I needed subtitles. The young cast need lessons on how to project themselves succinctly, because they sure didn't learn at drama school. All the dialogue was quietly garbled so it was indistinguishable. Its all very well the crew listening through headphones on set, but do any of them actually watch it on a tv ? probably not.

The land that never gets dark...

My friend got so bored she got up to spritz her plants. I found myself watching her because it was more entertaining than the movie. Needless to say we didn't stay till the end.

Literally couldn't make it through 10 minutes....the acting was that terrible