La Plus Belle Vitrine de Noël

Original title: Window Wonderland

TV Movie
2013
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1h 26m

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Chyler Leigh and Paul Campbell in La Plus Belle Vitrine de Noël (2013)

A department-store window decorator learns there is a vacancy for her dream job in the run-up to Christmas, only to find a professional rival has his eye on it too.A department-store window decorator learns there is a vacancy for her dream job in the run-up to Christmas, only to find a professional rival has his eye on it too.A department-store window decorator learns there is a vacancy for her dream job in the run-up to Christmas, only to find a professional rival has his eye on it too.

Director
- Michael M. Scott
Writers
- Tippi Dobrofsky
- Neal H. Dobrofsky
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

2.6K

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Director
- Michael M. Scott
Writers
- Tippi Dobrofsky
- Neal H. Dobrofsky
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations total

User reviews30

Featured review

6/10

Some Variations

This looks to start out as a standard Hallmark romantic comedy, where she is a brittle and uptight urban girl and he is a relaxed and casually brilliant guy. However, it quickly becomes apparent that they are both facades, come-ons to get people to buy the merchandise they offer, just like the windows they decorate in this good Hallmark Christmas romcom.

The essential plot points are all in place: the woman who has been decorating the store's windows for twenty years has left, taking her senior staff with her, leaving only Chyler Leigh and Paul Campbell to battle for the top spot.

It's a well-assembled romantic comedy that mostly works, even with Vancouver standing in for Manhattan and a mall standing in for what is, judging from the facade shown in the establishing shots, Bloomingdale's. While I have some issues with the flat, grey light that much of this movie is shot in and the usual overwhelming music, in sum total this is a good Hallmark TV movie.

boblipton
Nov 27, 2013
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Trivia
There are two songs in this movie that have generated much interest online, but their information isn't included in the end credits. The first is "Isn't Christmas Time a Wonderful Thing", by Joel Evans featuring Carla Helmbrecht. It is not available on cd, but is available for purchase as an mp3 purchase. The second song is heard in the last scene of the movie, "This is Christmas, by Suzie McNeil, and is available on cd.

Goofs
At :31 minutes into the movie, in the bathroom scene with the main actress and her mother, the mother brings in a pile of towels and sets them on a cart. As they leave that shot, you can see they are just falling over and there is a messy towel on top. Even though there is no one else in the bathroom, as they leave the bathroom a few moments later, the pile is all tidy again and not falling over.

Quotes
Mac McGuire: You two know that bickering is a sign of affection?
Sloan Van Doren: Not in this case.
Jake Dooley: No, it's a sign of insecurity. On her part.

Soundtracks
Isn't Christmastime a Wonderful Thing?
(uncredited)
Written by Joe Lervold & Lisa Aschmann
performed by Carla Helmbrecht with the The Joel Evans Quartet