La casa de Navidad

I was excited to watch the first Hallmark Christmas movie with gay couple (though I recall a lesbian couple in a recent one...). This is a feel good family movie with various subplots. The newly retired parents have grown apart, the actor son has career issues, and the younger, gay son and his husband are trying to adopt a baby. They all converge to put on a crazy, over-decorated house that's open to the public like they did years ago. Nice, feel good movie. I really enjoyed the inclusion of an LGBT storyline and that the couple was just a normal part of the family. Well done, Hallmark!

I love it very much. For freshness and atmosphere, for actors and delicate - precise explore of delicate themes. And for poetic realism, humor,for eulogy of family and crumbs of wisdome. And, not least, for the courage and well manner to use gay relations in a context not comfortable but familiar for this category. A house. Its family, a decision, secrets of family members and charming end. The images from past are just inspired support for this admirable mix of nostalgia, soft bitterness and small joys , significant as demonstration of family spirit. A lovely story, inspired cast , charming Christmas house and good supporting actors . Short, a beautiful film, for its high honesty.

6/10 - Hallmark's groundbreaking step to include a gay couple as part of the main storyline quite frankly deserved a better plot line altogether

Sweet and cute Hallmark movie, one of the better ones in the recent past. The cast is very good and Robert Buckley is so likeable in the lead and he co-wrote the story!

Not the usual Hallmark movie, it's refreshing. Kudos to the writing and teleplay teams and the great casting. The usual Hallmark is a formulaic focus on a single woman who finds romance, it's soapy and can be sickly sweet. This is about a family, actually three families, a house and cultures and real life. Kudos to Hallmark.