A Boyfriend for Christmas

I've never found myself much of a fan of Hallmark productions. They call their works original but are more and more just spins/homages to classic movies. Nonetheless, while this movie followed the lines of the average Holiday Romance movie, it was quite good. Kelli Williams was beautiful and mostly believable as her part. The whole story was, while nothing ground breaking, still a wonderful movie that I actually sat through and thoroughly enjoyed. Surprisingly enough, Kelli's young double, another Kelli, was believable as well to be her younger self. All in all, a movie I plan to consider buying on DVD, especially if it has some interesting outtakes and actor interviews.

A simple, romantic Christmas film. I enjoyed it and know that many others would if it was given the chance. People don't seem to want to watch films that aren't box office hits anymore. I search the internet for such unknown films (like this one) and I am always much more impressed with them. This film is really nice; I would have liked a little bit more emphasis on the Christmas theme over the romantic theme .. but it was still enjoyable. It had Santa so that was good enough ha!

I think it's a bit slow at first, but after this it picks up and turns out to be great overall. Just get past that slow part and you will most likely enjoy it as much as I did. Yeah, it wasn't the best film (or Christmas film) I have seen, but it is still good and I am glad I found it!

Sometimes love is worth the wait. Like twenty years or so..

Santa finally comes through with a boyfriend for Christmas...

Who else wants Patrick Muldoon on their doorstep Christmas morning?

Worth a view.

While the movie is 18 years old as I type, we only discovered it several years ago when we started to watch the Hallmark channel's holiday films, and now we watch it every year, when offered.

This movie uses three romance tropes in a satisfying combination: reunited with long lost friend, the dark secret, and the bad boyfriend.

Throw in some Santa Magic and it becomes a Christmas movie. :-)

Holly thinks Ryan Hughes, whom she's never seen, ditched a courtroom date, causing a mother and children to miss Christmas together. In truth, he was caught in a meeting where he tried talk his law firm and a client out of screwing over the residents of a housing project, then made a special effort to get to the judge and make up for missing the court date.

When Santa shoves them together, she doesn't know he's the same lawyer. Of course, every time he tries to explain, they get interrupted. There are funny scenes between Ryan and Ted (the bad boyfriend), and a lot of bonding scenes between Ryan and Holly and Holly's family to sell the building relationship.

Recommended.

I realize this TV movie is a few years old but I just saw it this past Holiday season. Like the comment I read posted on the main web page, I agree that the plot needed more complexity. However, I did think the story-line was charming and I liked the acting of all the main characters.

My main protest has to do with the outside settings. This is supposed to be December and all the deciduous trees are still in full foliage? Oh, please. If it's at a geographical location that's cold enough for winter wear and even snow on the ground then I can assure these Southern California movie producers that in December there are NO green leaves (nor even autumn-colored ones left, for that matter) anywhere except on evergreens. Even the grass was still green in this fantasy land.

For some reason I kept getting distracted from the "charming" story by these seasonal discrepancies. They provided a good laugh.