Christmas Truce

TV Movie
2015
PG-13
1h 28m

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An American soldier and a Belgian woman fall in love during a brief holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge. When fighting resumes, they promise to reunite on the first Christmas after th... Read allAn American soldier and a Belgian woman fall in love during a brief holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge. When fighting resumes, they promise to reunite on the first Christmas after the war ends if they're both alive.An American soldier and a Belgian woman fall in love during a brief holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge. When fighting resumes, they promise to reunite on the first Christmas after the war ends if they're both alive.

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emtcase

Nice love story

I wanted a fact-based story about the real event that took place during WW I. I should have read the reviews before I rented it. It was a nice love story with some good acting but not at all what I was looking for. It took place during WW II and was pretty disappointing. Low budget film for sure.

2vickilgreen

Are you kidding me?!?

I love Christmas movies! And I love historical movies set in WWII. I have no trouble forgetting all logic for a good story. But this movie is just ridiculous!! More holes than Swiss cheese in the storyline. It doesn't even have that good old feel good ending that most Christmas movies do. What a waste of two hours. I'm so disappointed.

6Jackbv123

Not the usual

If you want historical or technical accuracy, apparently this isn't your movie. Watch the history channel. Over and above the technical inaccuracies, I did find the Captain's distractions from duty to be annoying. The story circumstances also seem completely unbelievable, but this is a Christmas movie, so go with it.

This movie is a different approach to Christmas romance. The romance is sweet. As to story, there is more conflict than the dozens of Christmas movies on the main Christmas movie channels, and it includies war violence. There is drama.

At certain points, the dialogue is a little high-brow or esoteric.

The ending? What can I say that's not a spoiler. I guess I can say it has the same good characteristics and bad as the rest of the movie.

7adamjohns-42575

Peace for a day.

Set behind the German lines in the Second World War, this is a story of a romance that blossoms in the build up to Christmas in 1944.

The very handsome Captain (Craig Olejnik) leads his troops to a remote house, where they are offered refuge and aid by a beautiful girl and her Mother.

The acting isn't always on form, but once again it is nice to see a seasonal film that doesn't follow the trend of many others. I actually think they could have made it longer and included more interaction with the rest of the platoon -their girls at home, etc, but as it is, it's just fine.

Sweet and simple, just like me.

8lornadobson

Touching Christmas movie

It's nice to see a Christmas movie that doesn't involve silly premises. World War II has been a forgotten war and I'd rather see a romance in that era than the same-old same-old Christmas formula set in LA or NYC.

Everybody makes fun of the Hallmark Christmas movies genre but this one takes a different tack. It is well acted and quite touching.

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While this film tells a fictional story of World War II, a true Christmas truce occurred during World War I (the Great War, as it was known back then). During the holiday season of 1914, troops of opposing sides interrupted their fighting to share Christmas moments together in uncoordinated random ceasefires, after which they returned to their respective sides to continue the business of war.

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Myers and his team wear shoulder patches indicating they are assigned to the headquarters of Patton's Third Army which, during the Battle of the Bulge, was totally occupied with shifting the direction of attack by nearly half a million armor-heavy troops 90 degrees. They would then march them 100 miles in a blizzard, one of the greatest tactical and logistical feats in that theater of operations. They would not have been involved in an airborne commando operation behind the lines.