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MarVista Entertainment, Brain Power Studio

Cindy Busby, Greyston Holt, Christopher Russell

Noelle (Cindy Busby) is a writer who has always wanted a puppy. Upon the urging of her friend, she decides to give her “allergic” future fiance a puppy named Buster. But things don’t go well and she finds herself with an ex-boyfriend, without an apartment or place to live, and failing drastically at her job as a writer. One of her co-workers invites her to come to his grandfather’s Christmas tree farm, to help her out. His fiance is arriving in a few days, and he’s planned an incredible week to show her the wonderful place he spent his childhood, and the wonderful sights of winter in the the country. But his fiance doesn’t show up, and he’s having a wonderful time showing Noelle around. But when Noelle’s finance has a change of heart and arrives to change his mind and propose, she has a lot to think about.

This UP TV Christmas 2016 premier film is a fun adventure with lots of fun and colorful characters. Yes, it’s a romance, naturally, but it also has a lot of interesting characters and quite a few fun times. The puppy is a little brat, but it really cute I guess. What can you say about an adorable little puppy. Things happen quickly as this film wraps up, but it has a lot of heart. This is one of the better UP movies I’ve seen this year, and is well worth the time watching it. I enjoyed it, and there have been a lot of dog Christmas movies that weren’t very good, so it’s nice that this one, though predictable of course, is a nice little film.

Here is the UPTV.COM page for this movie.

Chesler/Perlmutter Productions,

Jessica Lowndes, Christopher Russell, Jennifer Gibson, Farrah Aviva, Anthony Ulc

Click here for the home page for Hallmark’s Merry Matrimony.

Seven years ago Brie (Jessica Lowndes) was madly in love with Eddie Chapman (Christopher Russell). But Eddie took off for an opportunity to study in Paris, and they have lost touch. Brie’s heart was broken, but she set her sights on moving forward in her career as a writer for a bridal magazine. She is given the chance to do a spread showing the perfect Christmas wedding and she’s excited to finally get a chance to show her skills. But when she shows up to the shoot, she finds the professional photographer assigned to her is Eddie Chapman. Determined to keep the relationship strictly business, one disaster after another looks to make her shoot a disaster, while Eddie just wants to know why she never contacted him again.

This is run of the mill Christmas story that left me pretty flat. The leads weren’t that impressive. Jessica did her best with what she was given, but she comes off as a bit of a whiny b**tch. Christopher on the other hand seems to be taking every opportunity to push his fake chin to the forefront. It appear he got the chin from Max Headroom, but it is off putting. Meanwhile the whole fake wedding photography bit didn’t resonate either. I truly think this is the least interesting of all the Hallmark Christmas films this year, and I’m sure most guys would agree. The young ladies, however, might find it enthralling. There are the group that loves to read the fashion magazines, and this may be their cup of tea, but it just didn’t seem to work for me. I’d say skip this one and look for one of the other ones that are a lot more interesting.

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