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Hot Frosty is a fantasy Christmas romantic comedy film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti from a screenplay by Russell Hainline. The 2024 film follows Cathy, a widow who magically brings a snowman to life whose innocence helps her heal her broken heart. Hot Frosty stars Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Katy Mixon Greer, Lauren Holly, Chrishell Stause, Joe Lo Truglio, and Craig Robinson. So, if you loved the Christmas spirit, sweet romance, and a heart-touching story in Hot Frosty here are some similar movies you should check out next.
The Spirit of Christmas (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Lifetime
The Spirit of Christmas is a fantasy Christmas romantic comedy-drama film directed by David Jackson from a screenplay by Tracy Andreen. The 2015 film follows Kate, a young woman tasked with selling a historic inn that is haunted by the ghost of a...
Hot Frosty is a fantasy Christmas romantic comedy film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti from a screenplay by Russell Hainline. The 2024 film follows Cathy, a widow who magically brings a snowman to life whose innocence helps her heal her broken heart. Hot Frosty stars Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Katy Mixon Greer, Lauren Holly, Chrishell Stause, Joe Lo Truglio, and Craig Robinson. So, if you loved the Christmas spirit, sweet romance, and a heart-touching story in Hot Frosty here are some similar movies you should check out next.
The Spirit of Christmas (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Lifetime
The Spirit of Christmas is a fantasy Christmas romantic comedy-drama film directed by David Jackson from a screenplay by Tracy Andreen. The 2015 film follows Kate, a young woman tasked with selling a historic inn that is haunted by the ghost of a...
- 11/17/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Rob Estes (Melrose Place, 90210) finds true love blooms in the strangest ways when he ventures to Edge of the Garden, a Hallmark Channel Original Movie World Premiere, premiering Saturday, May 14 (9 p.m. Et/Pt, 8C). Estes stars alongside Sarah Manninen, Kelly Monaco (General Hospital) and David Lewis (Harper's Island) as a lonely workaholic whose life will never be the same after he finds out he is sharing his garden bench with a ghost.
Can one man change a whole town’s history in a single moment? Brian Connor (Estes) is about to find out. A job-obsessed corporate man whose fiancée (Monaco) has just walked out on him, Brian gets a lesson in love and loss when he buys a charming but rundown old cottage in the countryside of Maine. Brian soon figures out he isn’t so alone when strange things start happening: lights mysteriously flicker, voices echo through the halls,...
Can one man change a whole town’s history in a single moment? Brian Connor (Estes) is about to find out. A job-obsessed corporate man whose fiancée (Monaco) has just walked out on him, Brian gets a lesson in love and loss when he buys a charming but rundown old cottage in the countryside of Maine. Brian soon figures out he isn’t so alone when strange things start happening: lights mysteriously flicker, voices echo through the halls,...
- 3/23/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Film review: 'Shattered Image'
Critical and art house-audience fave Raul Ruiz (who has worked in France for decades) crafts a chilly but suitably diverting puzzler in his newest film, which premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival. Lions Gate Releasing's "Shattered Image" should draw healthy crowds of the curious in limited engagements.
Anne Parillaud ("La Femme Nikita") stars in the dualistic role of Jessie, a hitwoman in one incarnation and a demure, scared newlywed in another. Tense and dreamy, stylistically dense and thoroughly mystifying, the film jarringly shifts between realities, one or both of which may be nightmares.
But getting lost in the surrealistic landscape of the native Chilean's cinema is part of Ruiz's appeal. Unfortunately, for all the craftsmanship and an eclectic cast that includes Graham Greene, co-producer Lisanne Falk and William Baldwin, "Shattered Image" is too remindful of artistically inferior, flimsier doppelganger/secret-sharer thrillers over the years.
Along with the elevated filmmaking sensibility comes a murky plot by newcomer Duane Poole, who has extensive writing credits in network television, and the dark-side erudition of producer Barbet Schroeder hangs over the project. Shattered peace of mind and a violent journey into awareness, reflected off the shards of a double-narrative, with eye-snagging art direction and sometimes fascinating dramatic exchanges -- it's an intoxicating brew for some, but from "Vertigo" on there's a hit-or-miss quality to this kind of film experience.
Starting with a swift assassination in a restaurant washroom, Jessie the man-slayer-for-hire is disturbed by her dreams of a more conventional existence, but it's her wealthy heiress version -- on a honeymoon to Jamaica with intimidating husband Brian (Baldwin) -- who has tried suicide and appears destined to be a victim of foul play. While the nice Jessie grows more paranoid and indeed almost falls off a cliff, the bad Jessie is hired to kill someone who looks a lot like Brian.
Greene and Falk appear in both worlds, and a lot of blood is shed on the way to a gimmicky conclusion. Nic Roeg has successfully and unsuccessfully covered this territory, and even a master like Krzysztof Kieslowski struggled to keep one engaged in "The Double Life of Veronique". Still, Ruiz makes the moviegoer not seriously regret seeing "Shattered Image", with his vibrant cinematic skills drawing one into a glorified potboiler.
SHATTERED IMAGE
Lions Gate Releasing
Peter Hoffman presents
a Seven Arts/Schroeder Hoffman production
in association with Fireworks Entertainment
Director: Raul Ruiz
Screenwriter: Duane Poole
Producers: Barbet Schroeder, Susan Hoffman, Lloyd A. Silverman
Executive producers: Jack Baran, Jay Firestone, Victor Loewy, Bastiaan Gieben, James Michael Vernon
Director of photography: Robby Muller
Production designer: Robert de Vico
Editor: Michael Duthie
Costume designer: Francine LeCoultre
Music: Jorge Arriagada
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jessie: Anne Parillaud
Brian: William Baldwin
Paula/Laura: Lisanne Falk
Conrad/Mike: Graham Greene
Lamond: Billy Wilmott
Simon: O'Neil Peart
Isabel: Leonie Forbes
Running time -- 103 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Anne Parillaud ("La Femme Nikita") stars in the dualistic role of Jessie, a hitwoman in one incarnation and a demure, scared newlywed in another. Tense and dreamy, stylistically dense and thoroughly mystifying, the film jarringly shifts between realities, one or both of which may be nightmares.
But getting lost in the surrealistic landscape of the native Chilean's cinema is part of Ruiz's appeal. Unfortunately, for all the craftsmanship and an eclectic cast that includes Graham Greene, co-producer Lisanne Falk and William Baldwin, "Shattered Image" is too remindful of artistically inferior, flimsier doppelganger/secret-sharer thrillers over the years.
Along with the elevated filmmaking sensibility comes a murky plot by newcomer Duane Poole, who has extensive writing credits in network television, and the dark-side erudition of producer Barbet Schroeder hangs over the project. Shattered peace of mind and a violent journey into awareness, reflected off the shards of a double-narrative, with eye-snagging art direction and sometimes fascinating dramatic exchanges -- it's an intoxicating brew for some, but from "Vertigo" on there's a hit-or-miss quality to this kind of film experience.
Starting with a swift assassination in a restaurant washroom, Jessie the man-slayer-for-hire is disturbed by her dreams of a more conventional existence, but it's her wealthy heiress version -- on a honeymoon to Jamaica with intimidating husband Brian (Baldwin) -- who has tried suicide and appears destined to be a victim of foul play. While the nice Jessie grows more paranoid and indeed almost falls off a cliff, the bad Jessie is hired to kill someone who looks a lot like Brian.
Greene and Falk appear in both worlds, and a lot of blood is shed on the way to a gimmicky conclusion. Nic Roeg has successfully and unsuccessfully covered this territory, and even a master like Krzysztof Kieslowski struggled to keep one engaged in "The Double Life of Veronique". Still, Ruiz makes the moviegoer not seriously regret seeing "Shattered Image", with his vibrant cinematic skills drawing one into a glorified potboiler.
SHATTERED IMAGE
Lions Gate Releasing
Peter Hoffman presents
a Seven Arts/Schroeder Hoffman production
in association with Fireworks Entertainment
Director: Raul Ruiz
Screenwriter: Duane Poole
Producers: Barbet Schroeder, Susan Hoffman, Lloyd A. Silverman
Executive producers: Jack Baran, Jay Firestone, Victor Loewy, Bastiaan Gieben, James Michael Vernon
Director of photography: Robby Muller
Production designer: Robert de Vico
Editor: Michael Duthie
Costume designer: Francine LeCoultre
Music: Jorge Arriagada
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jessie: Anne Parillaud
Brian: William Baldwin
Paula/Laura: Lisanne Falk
Conrad/Mike: Graham Greene
Lamond: Billy Wilmott
Simon: O'Neil Peart
Isabel: Leonie Forbes
Running time -- 103 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/4/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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