6.6 stars.
What is the deal with these Hallmark movies and the endless drivel dialogue. It's a psychobabble situation, two sisters talking about nothing. There is no substance, no drama, just a story about extended family hanging out over the holidays. So they try to fix up an old movie theater owned by the family in order to surprise people, but they hit some road blocks. There is such a lack of fun with the whole ordeal. I don't know, maybe not in the mood for this fluff the last few days.
The minor side plot is the other sister stays in Salt Lake. I can see that the point of these two films is to focus on one sister at a time. This one focuses on the sister with a son and she owns a restaurant in Salt Lake City. She goes home to hang out with her folks for Christmas, visit memory lane, maybe take another chance with love and, like I said, endless conversation about memories while walking around town, fixing a building, and decorating the tree.
Finally we get to the movie theater, will the fat cat movie chain owner buy it, or can they sell to someone who wishes to preserve it as it was? This theme has been played out a million times, whether it's about the rich uncaring developer buying a restaurant, bakery, lodge, hotel, you name it, this time it's a theater. Only so many ways to skin a cat. Hallmark cranks out a hundred movies a year and evidently we the audience will continue to feed the Hallmark holiday beast. I enjoy the sappy stuff, but I wish they would stop creating repetitive movies with no substance.
What is the deal with these Hallmark movies and the endless drivel dialogue. It's a psychobabble situation, two sisters talking about nothing. There is no substance, no drama, just a story about extended family hanging out over the holidays. So they try to fix up an old movie theater owned by the family in order to surprise people, but they hit some road blocks. There is such a lack of fun with the whole ordeal. I don't know, maybe not in the mood for this fluff the last few days.
The minor side plot is the other sister stays in Salt Lake. I can see that the point of these two films is to focus on one sister at a time. This one focuses on the sister with a son and she owns a restaurant in Salt Lake City. She goes home to hang out with her folks for Christmas, visit memory lane, maybe take another chance with love and, like I said, endless conversation about memories while walking around town, fixing a building, and decorating the tree.
Finally we get to the movie theater, will the fat cat movie chain owner buy it, or can they sell to someone who wishes to preserve it as it was? This theme has been played out a million times, whether it's about the rich uncaring developer buying a restaurant, bakery, lodge, hotel, you name it, this time it's a theater. Only so many ways to skin a cat. Hallmark cranks out a hundred movies a year and evidently we the audience will continue to feed the Hallmark holiday beast. I enjoy the sappy stuff, but I wish they would stop creating repetitive movies with no substance.