A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas

This romantic drama has Rachel Leigh Cook returning to her former family home to stage her sister's wedding, and finds a challenge in dealing with the current owner who is in the process of selling the place. Warm-hearted Christmas film, with a side-order of dealing with loss and moving on, and the added bonus of a wedding!

Beautiful Christmas setting but quite predictable. All the cliches were in place and the actors just going through their paces. Just did not feel love growing between the lead actors, too bad, should have had much more spark.

The inn and Christmas decorations were beautiful and if you're interested in planning a Christmas wedding, there are lots of ideas! I like the romance elements in these movies and it was here that the movie was found lacking. It has the requisite happy ending (not a spoiler bc we all know it will happen!) but not much in the way of a lead up to it!! Just not one of my favorites.

Yes, it is one of the same old tired storylines that Hallmark likes to do but it did have some different twists though, which I appreciated. It made it appealing and I actually like this movie's version of the storyline better than most. I really liked what felt like real conversations that people would have and family moments. The mother and daughters giggling and hugging each other. The sisters on the bed dipping cookies in milk and having real sister moments. The father daughter conversations. All of the acting was done well including the little girl. For a child actor she was really quite good. They all clicked well and were believable in their roles. I said I wanted to hang out with the mom, after she introduced her daughter in the diner. She just seems like a cool, fun mom!

The main characters were a little slow at " falling in love" but they were busy with the inn and working on the wedding. I didn't mind because the story was interesting enough and I knew they would get there. This might be the first Hallmark movie were there was no silly "misunderstanding" at the end that almost splits them up but they find their way back to each other, after clearing the air. Thank you! Finally! Those misunderstandings in all those other movies are just silly and unnecessary.

There were a few misses in there. The usual overload of Christmas decor and what was up with so many people milling around the front porch and driveway? It looked like a five or six bedroom house. If the father and daughter each had bedrooms, then that left three or four guest rooms. There should not have been that many people going in and out with luggage.

Like I said earlier, I enjoyed this version of a storyline that's been done many times but it was different enough to make it very enjoyable. I did not realize Rachel Leigh Cook was in it until it started and I got very excited to see her! I would definitely watch this again.

The Hallmark movie delivered its standard fare with Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas. The actors were older and throughout the movie learning to be wiser. Complications arise on do I take a job or not and move away from a perfect town and join the rat race.

By the end of the movie wiser and in love is the answer for characters Willow and David. They represent a mature couple needed, but seldom seen in Hallmark Christmas movie- and it definitely works. However, with that being said the movie is mediocre. I just did not feel that Rachael Leigh Cook was committed to the role.