Sweet Mountain Christmas

As soon as I watched this movie, I wanted to immediately watch it again. The music was great and it was nice to see the main actress actually know how to really sing and sing great! I googled her and found out she played the Patsy Cline part in the movie Patsy and Loretta. I had to watch that too. What a voice!! There actually was chemistry between her and the main man character. What a nice change for Hallmark movies. I have now watched this movie three times in three days and replayed the last part of the movie at least four more times. Love the two songs at the end.

Big city girl comes home and runs into old flame that she once abandoned (but maybe not totally one-sided). Like so many Lifetime movies this year, storm Meghan strands her and she can't get where she needs to be for her fading career. Meanwhile she remembers what she loved about home. Almost all of this has been done dozens of times, if not over a hundred times.

So what makes this different. Not much beyond a few songs by Hilty. I can't say the personalities were that appealing. Laney starts out totally self-centered, a little rude, and almost mean at times. Her relationship with Robby has no spark and is frankly boring. I didn't really care about that, or about her career developments either.

Teryl Rothery put in her usual great supporting role.

I'm glad that this movie takes advantage of the people with good voices and gives us some Christmas music. I wish more Christmas movies would do it and that the ones that do a little would do more.

The movie ends with several minutes of professional quality singing performances including a Christmas song that I was not previously familiar with.

It's nice to finally see one of these films and find that they've actually got someone who can sing to play a singer for a change. Megan Hilty has a great voice and some of the harmonies she has with others in this film are lovely.

Marcus Rosner doesn't need to be able to sing, he just has to look gorgeous and he does it very perfectly. He's also very good in the role too.

One of the unsung heroes and veterans of these Made For TV Christmas Films is Teryl Rothery. I have seen her in so many and she is always great.

As for the story, we have seen it all before, but it doesn't matter, because it's done well here. It's a bit more real than some of the others, in a good way.

The lighting seems a bit dark for some reason, but otherwise it's all put together well.

Another one to add to my regular Christmas viewing.

Megan Hilty never disappoints & has a wonderful voice. Even thou you know the leads have a past that didn't end well, it was great that for a change they weren't hateful to each other. Of course that wasn't the case for some others in town, you know there is always someone who's jealous or trying to get in between the two "love birds". It's definitely a favorite for me so far this season.

The song at the very end about the mistletoe and "lets kiss this Christmas". Is there a version of this I can buy and download? It's a wonderful Christmas song!