Review Date 6/15/2019

I Have Reviewed OVER 500 "Christmas Films and Specials". Please BEWARE Of films and specials with just one review! For instance When "It's a POSITIVE" chances are that the reviewer was involved with the production. "If its Negative" then they may have a grudge against the film for whatever reason. I am fare about these films.

A woman's relationship with a former Olympian is tested during the holiday season when her beau's ex attempts to feign a rekindled romance with him in order to fuel the sales of her relationship-advice book.

It was hard for me to watch this film because I kept thinking Marcus Rosner looks like one of Donald Trumps sons or Adam Scott. The film however suffers because the writing is very inconsistent. Characters are not consistent and at times you are left scratching your head.

It's the Christmas time, the television channels are filled with the Christmas contents. There are plenty of Christmas themed films, so it's hard to choose one, particularly the good one. Because they are first time airing, so there's no data about which one's good and which isn't. I randomly picked this one, but I have already seen half a dozen of titles in the current season. Every year, it's impossible to avoid them, so I go for it. But almost all of them are similar with slightly different to each other. That's what I expected in this as well.

So this film was focused on a gift shop man with a young daughter who is going through a divorce is looking to take the next step with his new girlfriend who is a firefighter. When his ex wanted him to pose as they are back together, just to increase the sales of her newly published book, it begins to hurt his girlfriend. Besides, all this complication, his daughter is the most affected. How everything will be solved once for all is brings the end to the tale.

Actually, this is not a bad film along those I have seen in the last couple of weeks. It was a simple story, the characters as well, but neatly expanded plot which is obviously predictable. The only thing I did not like was the lead actor, the remaining all were good. I'm not doubting his performance, which was actually fine, but he did not fit in with the others, especially for my eyes. So I won't expect similar distraction from you. The little girl Sadie, looked like some kind of related to Jeff Daniels, but I don't know. There's nothing big in the film and don't expect one. It is an enjoyable, silly, simple Christmas film with the family members.

6/10

This is supposed to be a com/rom (yes I reversed it) based on exaggeration. From the first scene, there is nothing about this that is believable. The solution to Tom's problems were pretty obvious but he lets himself be cowed. And the last couple of scenes are even more ridiculous again because it's not in any way believable and such an inexplicable reversal by nearly everyone.

But this kind of comedy can't be measured the same as a typical romance movie. So is it funny? I didn't laugh. Up until the last 10-15 minutes of screen time it is a constant downer. Everything that happens is negative. The grandfather is emotionally abusive of his granddaughter, Sadie, and daughter, Mary, and constantly threatens the ex-husband, Tom. The ex-wife, Mary, makes constant threats also, and in both cases these threats would hurt Sadie most which is why they have power over the dad. Is emotional child abuse funny? Sadie finally says "I wish I could divorce all of you" and it was long overdue.

The writers apparently think that abuse of political power is funny also because that's a running threat against Tom and Jenny. There's barely any romance in the movie until the very end.

I can't judge the acting in a mess like this, but I didn't see anything good. There's no chance to build chemistry between the leads either. The only remotely positive thing in the movie was the relationship between Sadie and Jenny.

Note by way of explanation - I recently started to become sensitive to reviews that use words like "the worst ever" and such. I believe if you are going to say anything close to that, you need to back it up and if you quit the movie after 15 minutes, anything you say goes with a grain of salt. Also, it's often pointed out that reviews that are extreme on either end are often by people with ulterior motives and you can tell something by number of reviews by that reviewer. I have over 1400 ratings and nearly 800 reviews. Many are Christmas movies and/or Rom/Coms. Check my stats.