Mingle All the Way

The "fake romance" trope is commonly trotted out in Hallmark Christmas movies. If there isn't one every year, there will probably be one the next. LOL This is one. However, they put a twist on it by having the pairing not be truly fake, but just a new app which pairs people who need plus ones for holiday events.

However, the creator of the app is challenged to use her own app, and of course it pairs her with a man she's already been at odds with ... twice. So we have the start of an antithetical romance which isn't supposed to be a romance in the first place.

This movie's script succeeds where many fail ... it puts the leads together in ways which believably sell the idea they might gain affection for each other.

There are funny moments and quite moving moments, such as when the male lead defends the female lead to her mother, and later when the mother takes that to heart and shows up to mend things with her daughter.

We recommend this movie and we'll watch it again. (In fact, I write this review after our second viewing. We also saw it the year it first aired).