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A sweet, fun Christmas movie for all the family. This movie has more depth than your average cheesy festive watch. Behind the fun and preparations for Christmas is the theme of strong friendships that last the test of time.

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.

This was really better than I ever thought it was going to be. Not your typical Christmas storyline but still a bit predictable. I found this refreshing! It was such a nice change of pace. It shows us that we all have problems and the importance of having friends and family to share them with and allowing each other to help each other. I enjoyed the different pace of this Christmas movie and glad they took a chance by not following the pack! Three friends from childhood who lift each other up and truly believe in each other. It has more real life pitfalls than your typical Christmas movie does but I think that's why I really enjoyed it. Just a nice change of pace!

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.)

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.