Hallmark Channel,
Emilie Ullerup, Sharon Lawrence, Kristoffer Polaha
Jenny Miller (Emilie Ullerup) is a dedicated nurse in the NICU (NeoNatal Intensive Care Unit) where the prematurely born babies go for extreme care when they are just born too soon. The leader of the team is Supervisor Alice (Sharon Lawrence) who is beloved not only by the nurses but also by the hundreds and hundreds of grown up “angels” and their parents that they took care of, and all of the nurses in the NICU are dedicated to the little lives that they protect. But the hospital is running out of money, and a new CFO has been hired Matt Crawford (Kristoffer Polaha) to cut the budget and he has a sharp pen. Slashing the budget for all non-essential spending, like the nurses Christmas party is not enough, so seven top supervisors are being forced to early retirement which includes Alice. Unfortunately Jenny bumped into the handsome new guy before she knew what his role was, and so she was attracted to the guy before she found out he was a nasty snake. The nurses decide to turn their party into a farewell for Alice, but though Matt keeps offering his help, Jenny wants nothing to do with him.
This Hallmark 2016 premier is a heart-warming tale of life in the ICU for preemies. There are a few back stories of babies and their families that are helped, which gives us a good feel for the kind of people who do so much for this little precarious lives. The teamwork is remarkable and it does go to show what a really good boss can do for their team. But it also shows that there are hired number crunchers who come in seeing people only as data, and it shows how different it is when you get to know the lives of the people you are destroying. Matt does an excellent job portraying the guy who can’t understand why he’s the bad guy when he’s only doing his job to save the hospital. Emilie plays a caring nurse and the chemistry between these ill fated romantics is done very well. The only complaint I could really have is the ending which is really Saccharine, but it is a Christmas movie after all. This Hallmark premier is a good one, and has a bit of a different story to it, and the background of the NICU which I’m unfortunately well acquainted with makes this a very entertaining film.
Here is the web page for this Hallmark Christmas film.
