Front Street Pictures,
Ashley Williams, Teddy Sears, Holly Robinson Peete, Jaeda Lily Miller, Marcus Rosner, Barbara Niven, Malcolm Stewart, Keith Martin Gordey
Allie Shaw (Ashley Williams) is from a little town in Vermont named Evergreen. Evergreen is another one of those little towns that just loves Christmas. Allie is a veterinarian and has always run the town’s Christmas Pageant. But she passed this year as she plans to move to Washington to be with her long time boyfriend Spencer (Marcus Rosner) and to a new job in a large clinic. Meanwhile, Ryan, (Teddy Sears) and his little girl Zoe (Jaeda Lily Miller) are on their way to Florida for a Christmas cruise to get away from the pain of losing Zoe’s Mom on the previous Christmas. Ryan and Zoe are also stranded, so Allie offers to bring them back to Evergreen as there are no rooms open in the city since the airport is closed. When things begin to warm up between Allie and Ryan, Spencer joins them to convince Allie to come to Washington. All this and a magical snow globe bring us the merriest of Christmas movies.
This is a very well done Christmas film with just about everything you could ask for. If you love Christmas romance movies, then you can’t miss with this one, that’s for sure. Ashley Williams is really good and gives a great performance. The rivalry between the guys is well played out too, but Jaeda Lily Miller really steals the show with a wonderful performance as a little girl who just wants to remember Christmas as it was instead of running away like her father is trying to do. She is really charming and an excellent little actress with a bright future. But the cast is rounded out by a number of other interesting characters. The downside of this film is that it is very predictable, but that’s as it has to be. If you’re looking with something with a bit more challenge, then this probably isn’t for you, but if you’re looking for another extremely well done Christmas movie with all the movie cliche’s, this is perhaps the best one I’ve seen this year.
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