Holly & Ivy

Awesomesauce! There were definitely some things that are not realistic, but it's a movie about libraries & a bookmobile - so we'll just ignore those things.

Make sure you have tissues, I knew what was coming as soon as the mother passed out the first tim.

Bonus points for Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan.

Cute if you can suspend belief!

One reviewer stated there was a goof with the dog not aging after a year had passed. Totally wrong..the bit in the court showed a flash back of them having a photo taken the Christmas before so the dog would have still been a puppy. The next bit carries on the year later when the dog is shown as brown. Wish people who state there are goofs watched the film properly.

This is a lovely heart warming and at times tearful, but one of the best Hallmark films. I've watched it twice now.

My wife and I enjoyed this Hallmark movie after our weekly steak dinner and wine. Unlike most this one is filmed in Utah and not in Canada. Not that there is anything wrong with Canada.

Set in Wisconsin, it starts leading up to Christmas. A 26-yr-old single woman moves to town with a degree in Library Sciences, a newly purchased "fixer upper" house, but no job yet. Pretty quickly she meets a young man who runs a local construction business. They hit it off pretty quickly.

But the bigger story is her next door neighbor, a single woman with two daughters and a terminal illness. With no other family will the young lady, new in town, step up and volunteer to care for the two girls?

A really good story about friendship, family, and following your dreams. At home on DVD from our public library. One of the better Hallmark movies we have seen.

I like it ! Was the fair conclusion after the final scene. First, for nice exploration of sensitive themes, from the single mother affected by cancer to the foster care volunteers and the orphans looking for a home, from the stranger in town and the eccentric investment to the love for books and the remind of children literature classics , from the not happy financial situation of public libraries to the hard work for a dream becoming true and the fall to have the desired job.

The romance is nice and few scenes just forced, but the small dog, the girls and the good atmosphere are good points of a film who has the courage - and some succes- be different by the so familiar Hallmark Christmas films.

This is my 9th Hallmark Christmas movie of the 2020 season. Overall, I was a bit disappointed with this one; it is at the bottom of my list thus far. I see that some reviewers here really enjoyed the film. However, I did not have the same viewing experience. It is a very sweet story, don't get me wrong, as other reviews have pointed out. But I had to stop myself on multiple occasions from multi-tasking, i.e., grabbing for my iPad. It was not until the last 20 minutes or so, at around the sleigh riding scene, that I was drawn into the film. Thus, for much of it, I was not engaged. The acting by the leads was OK. I know Jeremy Jordan from his role on Supergirl; I like his character in that series. He performed well here too. However, I was unimpressed with Janel Parrish's performance. She did have a couple of good scenes (e.g., the first date scene), and her performance did improve in the second half of the film, but her performance overall simply did not draw me in. As always in Hallmark movies, the supporting cast was good. Ivy (Piper Rubio) and Betty (the puppy) had very cute performances, for example. The role of Nina (Marisol Nichols), however, was an exception. Though she did perform well in the latter half of the film, there were several times where she looked like she was acting, which is not a good sign for an actor. The movie does get you into the Christmas spirit, especially the last 20 minutes.