Confessions of a Christmas Letter

I thought that the movie would get better as it went a long but after about half an hour I couldn't finish. The characters were so over the top and so unrealistic and child like it was stupid. Not really anything good to say about the movie and sadly I cant say anything about the actors themselves due to the character they were playing took the light off their abilities. Hallmark should start looking at much better scripts and ask themselves is this a movie that is worth watching or is it a movie people will be turning the channel after realizing it is ridicules and is an embarrassment for everyone involved.

Sometimes I feel guilty about a rating and review for a movie I couldn't finish, but this isn't one of those times.

This is the second movie we've seen this year where Hallmark has taken actors from a long-vanished sitcom to insert them into a Christmas movie. The first time was the aunts from Sabrina, and this time it's two characters from the office.

Now, the office had several annoying characters, and for some reason this casting picked two of the most annoying. I always regarded Angela Kinsey's character as the MOST annoying from The Office, and if this movie is any indication, it's not just the character.

She was equally annoying here, to the point we canned this one without wasting too much of our lives.

Was looking forward to this seeing the trailer a lot leading up to it. But it's terrible. The acting was over the top at best, the premise is lame, the writing is something a 5th grader would have done better at, the neighbor walks into their home anytime she wants as if she owns the home and she insults them incessantly. Who would EVER allow that?

It's a letter writing competition but the mother is terrible at writing, so she highers a published author to fly in from Puerto Rico to write the letter, as if THAT would not be grounds for disqualification as much as it's completely ridiculous. The son and his "husband" appear for 25 seconds, long enough to check the DEI box on someone's requirement sheet. I'm not mad they didn't appear in the movie again ... just, what was even the point!? Overall, It was bad enough that I wandered off many times to do other things. I came back to find I hadn't missed anything.

I confess I have nearly stopped writing TV movies reviews. They seem to get dumber every year: are scriptwriters running out of ideas? Hallmark Christmas movies, this year, seem to have engaged the perilous slope of the farce. Almost all, so far. Somebody there must be confusing the concept of intimate joy with epidermic silliness. This one is barely saved by the final attempt to give it a more serious, constructive moral. Unfortunately, the basis for the plot is preposterous and idiotic, the acting is amateurish and frantic, the gags are juvenile at best, all through the movie. I wonder if at Hallmark all goes to the direction of a farce because they have lost the ability to take Christmas seriously. The results are that most of their dramas are a laugh and their comedies make me cry.

Of course I had never heard about this 2024 Christmas movie titled "Confessions of a Christmas Letter" prior to sitting down and watching it as part of a December Christmas movie marathon. But from the movie's cover alone, it looked like it was going to be an archetypical sappy Christmas movie. Yet, I still opted to give the movie a fair chance.

Writers Jennifer Smith and Kate Smith put together a fair enough script. It was watchable and entertaining enough, for sure, but it was hardly an outstanding foray into the sappy Christmas movie genre. But hey, if you enjoy the sappy Christmas movies, then you're in for a treat here.

The only cast member that I was familiar with was Garry Chalk. However, I will say that the acting performances in the movie were fair.

"Confessions of a Christmas Letter" is a movie that caters to the diehard fans of sappy Christmas movies. You're not in for any grand movie experience, if you sit down to watch the movie as a casual viewer.

My rating of director Heather Hawthorn Doyle's 2024 movie "Confessions of a Christmas Letter" lands on a bland four out of ten stars. There are far, far better sappy Christmas movies out there.