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I was looking forward to watching this, following the impressive reviews, but I had to switch off after 10 minutes because I couldn't understand what the actors were saying.

This often happens with American movies of a certain standard (depending on the quality of the actors). If there is no close captioning, I just have to stop watching. If movies are made for worldwide distribution, surely the dialogue should be readily understood by people outside USA?

This movie is one of the better Christmas movies courtesy of Hallmark, with good performances by an attractive cast.

A huge plus for me was that I could actually understand what the actors were saying, their diction was so good, which isn't always the case in Hallmark movies (female actors. In particular, often either talk like machine-gun, have shrill voices, or sound like frogs croaking).

Do American movie-makers forget that their films are distributed worldwide?

This movie was spoiled for me when I had difficulty understanding what Katrina Law and many of her female co-stars were saying.

This happens regularly in US 'made for TV' movies. I rarely have a problem with male stars, but the females often have terrible voices or talk so fast that their words become jumbled and difficult to decipher.