Christmas on Holly Lane

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this Christmas movie. It tells the story of three childhood friends going through a hard time in the run-up to Christmas. Despite things not always going their way, they stick together and help each other out no matter what. Uplifting and full of festive cheer, the movie explores the power of female friendship, family and love.

Christmas on Holly Lane tells a story of three friends growing uptogether. Sarah, Riley, and Cat bond one Christmas. Riley a child of two alcholics and Kat who lost her parents and was taken in by cousins. Kat in paticular never experience a family until that day she bonded with her friends.

Riley, a financial planner with a large New York firm is tired of being looked over. Kat is a chef in Los Angeles who experienced the loss of her husband and is now a single mother with the burden of raising her teen age daughter who's friends parents of one percenters who are more concerned with being the "cool parents". When Kat calls her daughter she learns she attending a party with boys there's also beer being served. Kat decides she's has to do something. Riley decides to present a proposal to her firm. When her perposal is dismissed she resigns and uses severence package to invest in her friend.

Sarah is facing her own situation. She and her husband has agrred on having to reflect. Naturally their daughter is hoping for reconsillation but a surprise will make that no longer possible. Kat's daughter is taking the movie like any teenager would and doesn't hesitate to express her displeasure.

Finally, Riley explained to her why the house on Holly Lane is so important to her Mom and her. Now that Sarah and Ethan.are divicoring the question is Sarah doesn't have the capital to buy him out therefore the house that has been in Sarah's family for three genoration must go on the block. Riley,after injuring herself meets a classmate who now is an ER doctor who also works with Doctors Without borders. After working things out Sarah now is able to get down to work and produces a best selling novel.

Loved this charming Christmas story. The relationship between the three friends was heartwarming, and I especially loved the story between Jake and Riley. Jake was extremely charming, I couldn't get enough of him!!!!

What a nice movie!Not the usual Christmass movie, it's more like how 3 long time friends change their lives for better.Just watch this movie and i am sure you will like it.

Life is hard and for much of this movie, that was the story for the three women. But as they declared as teens, these three unrelated women are family and good family trumps everything.

If you don't like sappy, pie-in=the-sky, I don't think you will like this movie. Like most movies produced for UPTV and Hallmark, realism has no place, at least not at the end. At least two people do complete personality 180's instantly, which usually drives me nuts, but in this case I just went with it.

There are many very sweet moments.

(BTW, I really would have like to have seen the chauvinist boss get more clearly brought down for his blatant sexual-harassing behavior. It's not clear whether that was a factor or not.)