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Haley escapes her small-town and builds a life in Los Angeles as a wedding planner. When her sister asks her to plan her wedding, Haley returns to her childhood town and reunites with a chil... Read allHaley escapes her small-town and builds a life in Los Angeles as a wedding planner. When her sister asks her to plan her wedding, Haley returns to her childhood town and reunites with a childhood flame.Haley escapes her small-town and builds a life in Los Angeles as a wedding planner. When her sister asks her to plan her wedding, Haley returns to her childhood town and reunites with a childhood flame.
Elizabeth Covarrubias
- Brenda
- (as Elizabeth Alvarez)
Richard Bradsher
- Reverend Wilkins
- (as Richard Lavern Bradsher)
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Is this not the 21st century? As for the movie as a whole, there really wasn't one likeable character (well maybe the leads sister & her future husband). The lead character (Ali) was unlikeable throughout the movie, the others were just boring. Why do TPTB continue to make this c*ap?
Premise is fun ... but hiring people who can actually act should be high on the list. Most of the people in this movie seened to be reciting their lines - and are totally unbelievable. The woman playing Haley is horrible - and her character is very immature-and we're supposed to believe she's the best wedding planner to the stars? Um --- absolutely not. Does she not understand it's a small town AND it's a last minute Christmas Eve wedding? SHEESH. Ion - stick with your reruns --- they are far more enjoyable.
Haley did not act like an adult who plans weddings. She acted like a spoiled, arrogant asshole teenager. She ruined the whole movie. I frowned through the whole thing, hoping it would get better.
The only problem with this movie is the over-the-top snobby behavior of the lead actress, which is the writers fault. It isn't believable that someone of her "caliber" would behave that way with potential vendors. It does not endear you to her, which makes the rest of the movie less enjoyable. I would have shut if off in the very beginning but kept it on for background noise as I did other work. Don't recommend if you are wanting a true, heartfelt Christmas movie.
This is a wedding planner movie where she has too little time for the wedding her sister always dreamed of. The leads were friends as children on her family's tree farm where the three of them (including her sister) made wishes on a wish tree. The sister's wish was to get married at the farm. I bet you can't bet what one of the other wishes was. The male lead Carter later bought the farm - no I mean he purchased it.
The plot follows most of the usual themes including the totally cliché misunderstanding based on what one of them saw from afar. Actually there is not much of a plot besides the wedding. Haley, the planner quickly finds out too many things aren't available on short notice and that consumes most of the story. Since that leaves the story a little thin, Haley's boss has to threaten her periodically because the boss has agreed to another short notice wedding. Trouble is, that thread totally fizzles just as you'd expect.
A movie with a simple plot needs something to hook the audience. Often, that's the relationship between the leads. Just one problem. Haley proceeds to insult every possible vendor she can find, implying in effect that their hick town standards aren't up to her requirements. (Shouldn't "the best wedding planner in LA" know something about tact?) She even disrespects Carter at first. She's annoying. For some reason, it seems to be a requirement in these movies that the leads start out badly in the beginning and then all the disagreements disappear. This is where Cristine Prosperi and Colton Little should have had chemistry. And they had a little, but it wasn't great.
Many reviewers have heavily criticized the acting. The actor playing the sister was pretty good. I don't completely agree that the others were terrible. Most of them were fair, and none of them distracted me with acting. I've seen a lot of movies where the acting is distracting.
The plot follows most of the usual themes including the totally cliché misunderstanding based on what one of them saw from afar. Actually there is not much of a plot besides the wedding. Haley, the planner quickly finds out too many things aren't available on short notice and that consumes most of the story. Since that leaves the story a little thin, Haley's boss has to threaten her periodically because the boss has agreed to another short notice wedding. Trouble is, that thread totally fizzles just as you'd expect.
A movie with a simple plot needs something to hook the audience. Often, that's the relationship between the leads. Just one problem. Haley proceeds to insult every possible vendor she can find, implying in effect that their hick town standards aren't up to her requirements. (Shouldn't "the best wedding planner in LA" know something about tact?) She even disrespects Carter at first. She's annoying. For some reason, it seems to be a requirement in these movies that the leads start out badly in the beginning and then all the disagreements disappear. This is where Cristine Prosperi and Colton Little should have had chemistry. And they had a little, but it wasn't great.
Many reviewers have heavily criticized the acting. The actor playing the sister was pretty good. I don't completely agree that the others were terrible. Most of them were fair, and none of them distracted me with acting. I've seen a lot of movies where the acting is distracting.
Did you know
- TriviaThere is hardly any ice in the Netherlands. When there is, people will skate. Which is possible just a few days a year. Usually in January, February, March. In December temperatures are above 0. In other words: no ice. Something as ice-diving will be unthinkable in the Netherlands.
- GoofsIn the Netherlands there is no such thing as ice diving. When there is ice, which is rare, it is used for ice skating. Icediving during a Christmas holiday is lazy script writing: temperatures in December in the Netherlands are above 0.
- Crazy creditsActor Al Spencer is credited in opening credits but not in closing credits.
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- A Wedding for Christmas
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- Inspiration Point, Lake Tahoe, California, USA(Lake scene at 1: 19: 49)
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- 1h 30m(90 min)
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