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A woman gets the chance to go back to the previous Christmas Eve to try and save her relationship.

Although it's a predictable Christmas romance film, this scores due to the fact it's actually quite funny. Kelly Overton makes for an engaging lead actress as Ali, as well as being easy on the eye she displays a good comic timing and delivers plenty of witty lines. A sharp and witty script means there is a sharp sense of humour throughout the film especially when Mark Hutter and Moses Storm are on screen. The two male lead love interests work less well for me, coming across as a bit bland.

This is very much aimed at the female market and most of it's target audience should enjoy it. Thanks to it's pretty leading lady and funny script there is enough here to make this endurable to guys as well.

As long as you don't expect too much this is an enjoyable way to waste a couple of lazy hours on a winter morning.

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This is a story A woman travels one year back in time to the Christmas before her broken engagement and tries to repair what went wrong, and she discovers that this is a challenging undertaking.

What works about this story is that most of us wonder how our life might have turned out if we did not breakup with a certain person. If you are single this question can eat at you during the holidays.

In this film we learn that sometimes you are "Better off where you are" & "Breakups are often happen for a reason".

The actors are fine in this. I was excited to see Jonathan Patrick Moore in this film. He is charming.

The producers should decide the film title whether Back to Christmas or Correcting Christmas first of all. As a Michael Muhney, I couldn't wait for the film to be aired on television before the holidays. The cast includes Gloria Loring. The premise is about Allison, a successful Los Angeles businesswoman, who broke up with her longtime boyfriend, Cameron ( played by Michael Muhney) on Christmas Eve the year before. At a diner, she meets a strange and goofy lady played by Jennifer Elise Cox (The Brady Bunch's Jan Brady in the film version). Allie's mother is played by Gloria Loring in the movie. I believe Allison grew up in Northern California but it doesn't say where. Even though the film is predictable, I would have loved to see Gloria Loring sing a song. Kelly Overton is fine as Allison.

The movie had christmas and nice performances but the romance was rushed. Plus, the magical christmas lady was a bit over the top. There were some plot holes too and they didn't explain the whole magic trip to the past.

We tried to watch this on Hulu and it's one we couldn't finish!! We couldn't get into the movie. It tried to be like a hallmark movie but falls flat on its face. Didn't feel the actors gelled together, they felt like they were forcing it!! The movie lacks heart, lacks that feel good feeling you get when watching hallmark Christmas movies. I give it three stars for trying but anything about that is a paid for review!!

The movies actually called Back To Christmas. The movie was ok . It starts a little slow,but it's pretty good.

On the imdb home page for a movie they sometimes show a budget for the production.On this one it simply shows $1. Which, I think, is 50c more than the truth. This film is odd in that, on many occassions the filming is quite bad. It is rare to have unprofessionals even on low budget films these days. Shots are wrongly framed (no, not artistically debatebale .. that's a different argument, the shots were simply WRONG) Many shots are actually "soft" (slightly out of focus) for most of the scene. There's even basic sound errors and sound drifting from image rate. You have to really try hard to mess up modern cameras - but they did it. Doesn't matter though becausee the only hero on this movie is the production staff member in charge of curling tongs - that person worked like a trouper on the lank hair supplied by the lead actress.They should be given a golden Tong as a gift. The acting, in general is really poor - as is the wordy, meadering and pointless script. There wasn't even "Chistmas Film Cheese" to laugh at. A pathetic film, apalling actors, really really bad script, really poor camerawork.

Very happy to have watched this movie. They did most things very well and some things not so well. Kelly Overton was great in the lead as Ali, but they could have spent more time developing her character in the beginning. Instead they had a stupid scene where her boss makes jokes about making a pass ate her. Excellent when she runs into her old live-in partner (Cameron) and he is with Lauren Storm who plays 3 different parts in the movie. The mom and dad are both fantastic and the mom plays a major role in the movie in projecting her dream upon her daughter. A thought provoking part of the story indeed. Cameron is great as self centered/obnoxious who is only liked by the mother. Nice to see Jonathan Patrick Moore as the good guy Nick (he was Nick in the Mistletones). It is an ION TV movie.

It's pretty typical in a holiday romance to find the cast clad in shades of crimson, maroon and scarlet, emphasising how characters embracing the traditional colour palette of the season have also embraced the Christmas spirit. Never, though, have I seen this trope pushed as much as in this movie, during which virtually every character spends almost every scene wearing seasonal red somewhere in their outfit. I can only imagine there was a special offer if the wardrobe department bulk bought in just one colour. The red is so prevalent that the conclusion to what passes for a love triangle is immediately telegraphed by the heroine's boyfriend being the only character not constantly dressed in the otherwise ubiquitous colour. And it's this kind of application of genre tropes with maximum laziness that characterizes this movie throughout.

It's not really a problem that the plot of Correcting Christmas - in which Kelly Overton (taking a break from vampires between True Blood and Van Helsing) gets a magical do-over to go back and correct her romantic mistakes of a Christmas past - is the sort of thing we've all seen before. After all, audiences for this kind of TV movie holiday romance expect, and often even demand, a certain amount of comfortingly predictable tropes. The chance to return to your past, do things differently and take the road not travelled remains a popular conceit for magical romance for good reason (The Family Man with Nicolas Cage would be the obvious festive take on the theme in high budget mainstream film). There isn't a viewer out there who doesn't have a past regret or two and a curiosity about how things could have turned out otherwise. So it's formulaic, yes, but it's a formula with pretty universal appeal. It's not the generic setup that's relevant here, though, it's all about how well it's executed. And that's where Correcting Christmas really comes apart.

This is a movie that doesn't just fail to pull off one convincing relationship, but does so twice for good measure. A lot of time is spent on how bad a match for her the boyfriend of Overton's Ali really is (largely expressed via the fact that he really doesn't care about the magic of Christmas or sharing it with family). In fact, it's the focus of so much of the movie that it's really hard to buy this being a relationship that has been going for years and where she honestly both expects and wishes for a Christmas proposal.

At the other corner of the "love triangle" there's Nick (so named because there's only about five festive names to go round the love interests in these movies). Ali's high school best friend, who once had a thing for her before she moved to the big city, and is now a hunky Christmas-loving small town builder, Nick is cut from the pretty standard (red plaid) cloth of a holiday movie love interest. But the movie seems to think that recognising the familiar tropes and being aware that Nick and Ali will end up together is enough that it never actually has to convince us of them as a romantic pairing. In fact, they share all of five or six scenes together in the entire movie, all brief conversations. It's also odd that the movie deems it worth mentioning her passion for her job as an architect, but does nothing with the potential connection to him being a builder. (At least have them make a gingerbread house together or something!)

In a moment of uncharacteristic self-awareness Nick even straight up tells her that they've barely talked since high school, aren't really even Facebook friends anymore and that she's probably just projecting her dissatisfaction with her current relationship onto an imagined version of him. But then in their very next scene together he's the one pushing for a happily ever after.

This sort of lack of effort isn't Correcting Christmas's only flaw (the third male lead - Ali's brother - is insufferable, with many of the same personal issues that the movie sees as problems for both Ali and her no-good boyfriend, yet he gets a happy ending without really learning or growing at all), but it is the big one. One that makes its other less-than-stellar elements harder to overlook.

In the end, then, all that red is more likely to indicate a stop sign for potential viewers of this movie than a mark of passion.

Compared to a lot of Hallmark movies this was well acted - particularly Mark Hutter, - Brian , his humorous dialogue felt 'real', and thought he made a lovely Dad, the best parent I've seen in years of watching this type of film.

Did anyone else notice how the wardrobe/set department had a colour palette of '3' ? rusty red, teal, and black. Red dresses/tops for the ladies and similar colour shirts for the men - very matchy matchy, then it was orangey red for tablecloths and even a wall was rusty red. The evening meal had a few ladies in teal dresses, a couple of black, and again, the colour red appeared.

Watch it again and you'll see what I mean. Most unusual.

This movie was perfect for one of those days when you don't want any more drama and just need to laugh. It wasn't jut your average, cheesy TV romance movie. i have always had low standards for TV movies, but this one best all odds and warmed my heart. The plot, even though this was just a TV movie, was intricate and conveyed a message that got through to the audience. There were many comedic moments and even my dad was able to get into it. I am a huge an of Michael Muhney, so that may have made me more accepting of it, but overall I think it was a great movie and its staying on my PVR for next year. This movie is fun an appropriate for the entire family. Sure to put you in the Christmas spirit.

I was anxiously waiting for Michael Muhney, he's a great actor with a promising full-filling career, as a stand alone actor, in any film. In Giving the Main FEMALE character, a chance to go back in time, and fix a break-up so that the couple would stay together, is a really great synopsis. if we could all go back in time, and FIX BREAK-UPS, in real-life, I don't necessarily think it would be good. But, thankfully it's fiction and I also Loved Gloria Loring, as well. She's a great Veteran actress. I'm really hoping to see Michael Muhney, get more movie gigs.

Good looking men, the second chance, a nice young woman front to dilemma, jealous guy and the friend from childhood. And the parents. And the air of Christmas.

Nothing new ,but correct crafted And beautiful dose of realism. And Gloria Loring as axis of a nice story about Christmas, second chance and true love.

I just watched this movie and when I tried to rate it I cannot find it under th title I just watched it under. I just watched it under the Titled "Back To Christmas". Please check and fix or let me know if Hulu has it wrong. Thank C