Radio Christmas

Yes, the story of Bethlehem PA is not accurate. So you dis the whole movie? Perhaps it would be worthwhile to look at some things about the movie beyond that one glaring problem. (BTW - I have done the same thing at least partially and I apologize for it. I usually try to avoid it but if I do have a problem getting past one sticking point, I still try to bring out other things positive and negative in any review I write.)

The story should have been Bethlehem, Iowa, or Utah, or anywhere we can file away as made up. If you do that, this is a unique story. The radio/podcast angle is nice. It does lead to the common reporter-investigates-a-secret trope, but even that is not as worn out as some themes. I knew almost immediately who was the Secret Santa, but the whole audience learns that fairly early in the movie. As soon as Kara said she'd keep the secret, it was a pretty certain guess that somehow she would fail.

For me these movies are about relationships and I really enjoyed the relationships between Keshia Knight Pulliam's Kara, Michael Xavier's Scott, and Nakai Takawira's Andie. I loved that Andie is a hockey player, but that's minor compared to how warm that three-way relationship became.

This is a Lifetime movie, but as many of them do, it has what we tend to call a Hallmark ending. To do that, they used some unexpected things and some predictable ones.

Unfortunately, I couldn't watch more than 15 minutes of this movie. Forget 90+ minutes! The false eyelashes of the main actor, Keshia Knight Pulliam, were so distracting the story was lost on me.

I have to say that I completed a jigsaw whilst watching this, because it really didn't grab me that much at all.

I wasn't attracted to any of the characters or interested in their stories, which is a shame because the search she does could have provided a really good story for this film, but it was all very lightly achieved and so didn't quite have the passion and drama it could have done.

It's not that bad, it's not that good.

Great movie, glad to see that there were nontypical characters.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and the acting was much better than I expected!!!