Christmas Getaway

Loved this movie and can watch it over and over. All three of the main characters were good but Travis Van Winkle carries this movie. It is some of the best acting I've seen in a hallmark movie. I also enjoy watching the mother character in Hallmark movies. She is a good actor as well.

The story is good and and keeps you interested. Not the typical Hallmark, girl in big city goes home to country hometown.

Love movies like these with more imagination.

So a little honesty here, my least favorite part of Hallmark Christmas movies is the preachy attitude. That is what separates this movie from the rest. Instead the focus is on the characters who happen to be enjoying Christmas traditions together. The chemistry between the 2 appealing character leads, Emory and Scott is wonderful, and Scott's daughter and mother are also on mark. You just believe and like them, and the amusing dialogue is a step above the usual Hallmark movie. It's just a fun romantic comedy, and I hope Hallmark makes more of these movies in the future.

Emory Blake (Bridget Regan) is a workaholic travel writer. She is often away from her San Francisco home. When her boyfriend invites her to visit his family in Boston for Christmas, she turns him down and they break up. She is eager for her next work assignment doing a story on a cabin holiday in Pine Grove. She is shocked when Scott Hays (Travis Van Winkle) seems to have broke in and gives him a swift kick. The owner had double booked the rental. Scott is a widower with his daughter Katy and waiting for his mother Marilyn (Teryl Rothery) to arrive. Emory agrees to go home but her car breaks down and she's forced to stay. Alice Bennett is a parent to Katy's classmate Johnny.

It's a rather straight forward romance. There is a hint of a love triangle but Alice is never given enough screen time to be a bigger character. In the end, the path is singular and straight. There are no turns, no twists, and no surprises. There is a predictable misunderstanding and an easy resolution. It's a Hallmark movie.

This movie is a cut above. Interesting story. The two leads have chemistry like mad. They are very charming and natural together. I really liked this one. All the actors were very good.

A delightful set-up where strangers meet over a double-booked log cabin at a Christmas resort called Pine Grove - a widowed young father and his schoolgirl daughter (changing their annual routine) encounter a recently dumped travel writer who is "more transient than traditional", having had an unconventional upbringing abroad with her nomadic parents.

After she generously concedes the booking to father & child, they return the good deed by playing host to their uninvited guest when her car breaks down before a snow storm...thus unfolds this magical yarn where the young girl has a dreamy wishlist of all the Christmassy things she wants to do this year...with her father and their new friend.

So many films are made in this genre but rarely does everything hit the mark; but here the clever plot; the witty dialogue (without a streak of sentimentality or falseness); the gentle subplot with the young man's mother (with her own romance percolating in the background); and the two charismatic leads (possessing what's usually missing from these yuletide Romcoms: on-screen chemistry!) give heart warming and engaging performances. It's hard to imagine another pair in the roles, they're that good!

This movie will warm the cuckles of your heart with its charm, relaxed unforced humour, Christmas magic and I look forward to watching it again when the chance presents itself in future.

And of course I will recommend it, without hesitation, to others.