Hometown Christmas

Which is a good thing for a Christmas movie, so I enjoyed that aspect and storyline. What kept giving me pause was the casting of Beverly Mitchell and Stephen Colletti. I have nothing against an 'older woman/ younger man' motif, but the pair were supposedly same-year high school sweethearts, and meaning no offence to either actor, my imagination could't strain that far for any sustained period. They were manifestly not the same age. A trivial thing on which to focus, but the thought kept intruding...

Got home from work early and came across a ton of holiday movies on Lifetime and Hallmark channel. This one follows the cheesy holiday movie formula quite nicely. Best of all, it stars one of my favorite actresses of all time: Melissa Gilbert. I'm a Little House on the Prairie fan for life!

However I nerded out and froze the frame where Noelle sees the article about Nick. The authors of this fake website forgot to use spell check. They forgot an "S" in "Russell", used "collage" instead of "college" twice and forgot to follow the grammar rule "i before e, except after c" in the word received. Then again, I may be the only viewer to freeze a screen and spend time reading the text on a fake website.

Aside from that. Loved the movie!!

The story of a rekindling a romance has been done so many times. The cast is led by Beverly Mitchell and Stephen Colletti and they are quite appealing and the couple are quite cute together. The parents have a romance too with Melissa Gilbert making a welcome appearance.

So it's ok for one watch.

My biggest disappointment with this movie is at about 1hr, 17 mins in. The lead is reading the Christmas Story from the Gospel of Luke chap 2. When she reads "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior," she abruptly omits the words, "who is Christ the Lord." Yeah, kind of the whole point of the story...

This isn't a bad story at all, although I'm not keen on Beverley Mitchell, who reminds me of one of the Fraggles (I'm not sure which one). Stephen Colletti on the other hand is like a hot Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) and his character is really nice.

I like how they managed to have three relationships going on without compromising on the main story, it was all balanced very well.

It's full of Christmas and the Nay-tivity (They can't pronounce it properly) and it does the job that films like this are made to do.

I especially liked the Dad and Mary.

It's definitely worth a watch, even the brother has something about him.