Christmas in Louisiana

Having been born and raised in the town of New Iberia, this movie perfectly depicts the small-town charm that my city has; I was so happy to see so many familiar faces and places. I hope we get more people to come and see what we have to offer now that Christmas is actually around the corner. It would be amazing to have another movie filmed here again; the experience was wonderful and everyone was so kind.

Luke and Sarah had absolutely no chemistry! But the Grandparents were adorable and so was Sarah's Mama!

The description certainly was generic cliche- big city girl goes home to christmas festival blablabla. Nothing spectacular there. Someone had the bright idea in the writing dept to shine the light on the relationships of 3 generations of the Winters family. In fact at the outset I was more interested in Moira Kelly and the photographer. Could have been flushed out a bit more. I will say the 2 older couples had a natural chemistry probably just coming from years of acting and knowing how to be charming/flirtatious etc without looking like they're trying too hard. I think I've seen Percy Daggs in other stuff and felt the same way, he ddidn't seem natural with his female lead. Like fish out of water. But even with Lifetime or Hallmark you do see younger leads actually melding together naturally. This time wasn't it. But kudos for the 3 generations of stories idea. Just needed to build them better. Certainly doable in 90 minutes, especially since the whole thing was relationship based. There was no plot time spent on big city person developer buying up town real estate, or whatever the big city corporate leads usually have up their sleeves by going home for Christmas, or to save a parade or festival etc. Good start lifetime. Keep on this track.

3 generations: grandma and grandpa, mom (Moira) and Sara (Jana). They all won't the Christmas festival.

Sara won in 2004. It's now the 50th anniversary. Gran won 50 years ago where she fell in love with her husband Mr. Christmas. 50 years ago. 1969. Her granddaughter was a senior in 2004 so born 1986. 21 years late. The mom is said to have won in 1989. That works out with when her parents won but by that then she would have had her daughter when she was 15?!? It's driving me nuts.

It's too spread out over too many characters. Sara and Luke have zero chemistry. Jana has done some ok stuff but is also annoying.

This is a miss for me.

I love watching Lifetime movies during the Holidays. Most of them have regurgitated storylines (i.e., successful big city man/woman goes back home to their small town) but they are still usually very entertaining. This, although very entertaining, missed the mark incredibly with their co-leads. Percy Daggs III was a little too goofy to be taken seriously as a love interest for Jana Kramer. They literally had ZERO chemistry. However, I loved the dynamic between Dee Wallace and Barry Bostwick.