Une alliance pour Noël

After months of spending money in an extremely reckless manner, a spoiled, young woman living in New York City named "Angie Moore" (Liliana Tandon) is finally cut off from her allowance by her mother, "Margaret Moore" (Lorraine Bracco). Needless to say, Angie is devastated by this news, at least at first. Things change, however, when she learns that her deceased father had started a trust fund for her with the promise to pay an extremely large amount of money to her if she marries someone by Christmas. Not having anyone who will take her up on this, she then travels to her old hometown to look for a former high school crush named "Tyler Davis" (Charles Hittinger), who is not only single but is desperate to acquire enough money to start his own business. While there, she also meets her very best friend "Gabe Hudson" (Dean Geyer), who is also single--and happens to be a good friend of Tyler. And this causes problems for everyone involved. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this wasn't a bad movie necessarily, but it suffered from a rather predictable plot and mediocre acting all around. Not only that, but quite frankly, it also lacked the necessary humor and chemistry needed for a film of this sort as well, and for those reasons, I have rated this movie accordingly. Slightly below average.

I really think some of the other reviewers are being harsh. Christmas movies are supposed to be cheesy and not that believable. Kind of like Santa Claus (sorry, kids). This movie had all the elements of a good Christmas movie: holiday music and snow and making cookies and drinking cocoa. The point is to get into the holiday spirit and this movie certainly will do that for you (though reading the other reviews will not!)

To be sure, the plot isn't perfect. There are some inconsistencies and holes. The main character was a bit problematic, in that she was supposed to be spoiled and bratty at the beginning, then shift to someone more likable, but in fact, she never seemed all that horrible to begin with, which made it difficult to see a real change over the course of the movie. However, the reviews about the actress's looks are plain mean and unnecessary. She is very pretty and played the part well. The other actors also did a nice job and I especially liked Kate McGarrigle, who plays Angie's hilarious best friend. Give this movie a chance, it will make you laugh and give you a warm Christmas feeling, which is really all you can ask for in a Christmas movie.

Granted I watched it just to see the scenes of my Newburyport (and they were beautiful as the city is) but I really did not expect it to be as bad as it was. Terrible script, truly awful acting. How desperate for money would Lorraine Bracco have had to be to be involved in this? It made all the dreck on Hallmark and Lifetime look like great cinema.

This was hard to watch. Not terrible, but the lead actress was not believable. Gabe was the only one that was believable. He looked better than the supposed athletic jock.

First i want to say that i am a big fan of Christmas movies and sucker for a nice romance... But..... Allthough i found the story very nice, i found especially Liliana Tandon very very cold! It felt like she was reading her lines, didn't have chemistry with any other actor. And to be honest except Dean Geyer who was as always good and sweet in his role i don't think any other actor or actress played with heart! I think he would be even better with the right cast. The script was good enough (written by Liliana Tandon) but the plot had holes and except being set in Christmas time had nothing to do with the festivities or spirit of Christmas and most certainly didn't put me in the Christmas mood....