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I don't know why this movie got such a good review rating. While I like the story I just can not believe that they shot this movie in such a beautiful country and blurred out all the landscape scenery. Are you kidding me? Why why would you do that? Do you need lessons in photography? Those scenery shots should have been shot at F-5.6 to F-13 and not at the F-stop your camera person done them in it makes many of the scenes look terrible. Now it looks like any suburb in any country even the not so nice states in the USA. That said I think the acting was great and also the story it's one of those animal stories that warms the heart and makes you happy on a gloomy day. I wish there were many more like it.

This is not only one of my all-time favourite Hallmark Christmas movies, it is one of my all-time favourite Hallmark movies of any theme. In fact, apart from the expected romance, and family love, this was not a 'typical' Hallmark. Many have been distinctive by their excellent direction and/or quality performances, this story has a beautifully written screenplay that is perfectly executed acting. The actors brought brand new character types that were intriguing and unexpected. It's also fun to learn about other cultures and customs, in this case, those of Finland. I guarantee we will be looking forward seeing this movie replayed every year.

This one breaks all the molds, and is more an adventure movie than a Christmas romance. Set in Finland, the movie follows a sled dog race as our heroine tries to win one of the few races her father lost in his lifetime.

Standing in her way is the same man whose dirty trick cost her father the race at the moment he should have taken the lead.

There really wasn't anything about this writing--either plot or dialog--that bothered me as ill thought. Our female lead comes across as someone with depth, conflicted by her motives to reclaim her father's only loss versus her desire to show her own success.

We very much enjoyed this film.