I don't know what is going on, but Reel One Entertainment 2022 winter/Christmas season is a train wreck after train wreck. It's not that casting is bad or directing or writing - it's for the technical reasons. Like somebody at ROE thinks that "Christmas Belle" TV movie is masterpiece. Do you remember notorious "Christmas Belle" TV movie which vast majority of us hated it for its constantly loud background music? This is the same thing here - almost the same or similar music 90% of the movie. It will drive you crazy especially if you are using headphones! I used 10 sec skip function for at least a quarter of a movie because I couldn't listen it.
For some reason lighting at Cara's parents home was just bad. I never saw so much bad lighting in any other ROE TV movie.
Like in the so many other ROE TV movies, this one was filmed in Hamilton, so they have to show too much stock NYC footage, and Cara had to say so many times how and why she loves NYC so viewers get fooled that it was actually filmed in NYC. Stock footage was so bad that I even saw stock footage from Slovenia in Europe!
Lets talk about cast. Corey Sevier is an average TV actor. I watched a lot of his movies and IMO he's best is "Grounded for Christmas" where writing allowed him to shine. I don't know if it's him or his agent, but this is at least the third time he was playing a writer (after "Mr. Write" and "Meet Me in New York"), and the second time in the fake NYC. Maybe there's more but I didn't watch his every movie. It's not a bad thing per se, but it's a bit of boring.
Emily Alato - this is the third train wreck I watched her in. The other two are "Christmas Catch" and "The Princess and the Bodyguard". She was awful, she acted like a horny high school teenage girl, and she grin whole movie. I'm not sure if director is to blame because of the other two mentioned train wrecks.
Andrew Bushell deserves better. He was barely in the movie but at least his arc was very well done. He did the right things. Cara and Michael deserve each other.
The rest of the cast was all right.
There is at least one good thing is that you can watch the whole movie compressed in just 2:28 min long trailer. In the normal circumstances it's a bad thing but this time it saves your valuable free time.