A Christmas in Vermont

The star of this movie is supposed to be Vermont. Outsider "savior" Riley (Abigail Hawk) wants to use the company's Vermontiness to save it. It is pretty clear that in addition to knowing nothing about the clothing business, no one associated with its production has ever been here or knows anything real about Vermont. The movie itself was filmed near Buffalo and could be anywhere USA. That town, East Aurora, would be one of the largest towns in Vermont - bigger than all but 20 of Vermont's 250 towns. Add horrible inauthentic dialogue, epically predictable plot, annoying characters, and wooden acting, and you've got an unwatchable Christmas disaster.

Like many bad Christmas movies, you are left perplexed as to how the main characters fall in love. Inexplicably Chevy Chase is in this movie. That, along with the script, leaves you many times wondering, what's going on right now? The interactions are awkward, and are attempting to get a point across, but often times you have no idea what that is. Overall, really great if you're looking for a movie to confuse you. Women supporting women in business was a redeeming quality. That, and Vermont is just great.

This movie is cheesy, but I have been in the mood for cheesy Christmas movies this year. Howard Hesseman I've always liked, he's the reason I give A Christmas in Vermont the stars it gets.

This isn't a realistic look at Vermont. First, it is filmed in Buffalo, NY, which isn't Vermont. They could have filmed it in Stowe and provided a much more realistic setting. I laughed when I saw the supposed Vermont license plates. That's a NY plate with "Vermont" photoshopped over NY. That's simply lazy. As was putting one photoshopped plate in while all other plates on cars parked on the streets were NY plates.

I've seen feedback about snow. It's almost Christmas and there's no snow on the ground. It was 50 this weekend. Snow at Christmas isn't a guarantee in Vermont. That said, cold weather usually is and any Vermonter stood out in the cold for that long would have a coat zipped up all the way and a hat or scarf covering the ears.

I've lived in Vermont for more than 40 years and I have not heard anyone say "Howdy." I don't know why authors and scriptwriters continue to think that Vermonter's talk like that. Again, circle back to Hesseman, who is as Vermonter-like as I've seen. He often reminded me of my dad, right down to the speech and mannerisms.

Acting is weak for the most part. The plot is same-old, same-old, but I expected the same Christmas romance redone, so I could handle that. The downfall to me came from making "Vermont" about as un-Vermont as possible.

It is very difficult to write I like it about this Christmas film. The first obstacle is the dusty story , the high predactibility and the not very happy option for the end.

It is unfair to write I hate it . Because Howard Hesseman and , for a small fist of reasons, Chevy Chase.

But it represents a nice try, helped, with good result, by Vermont locations.

And by the remind of roots and fruits of idealism of youth, about obstacles and bad understanding and about seductive wisedom of elders.

The romance ? Yes, it works decent. Not the chemistry but the science of Abigail Hawk to roll in nice sense the story.

The movie itself wasn't bad. I'm a sucker for a cheesy romance movie but if you don't like those, you will not like this movie. The ending was a bit odd to me as well.

However as a Vermonter this movie annoyed me. This movie is supposed to take place in Vermont in December yet there was no snow. Has anyone that worked on this movie ever been to Vermont? This movie should have been placed in a generic place not Vermont because that certainly wasn't Vermont.