The Australia/Canadian actress Rhiannon Fish is an up and coming star, now making films on the regular for Hallmark and other studios as well.
In 'The Christmas Retreat', Fish plays a workaholic who is convinced by her mother to attend a Christmas retreat where participants rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There (and also randomly once earlier in the film) she meets the recently-unemployed finance guy Mark (Clayton James) whose family owns the retreat.
Naturally, the sparks fly as both of them get back in touch with their Christmas roots, and there is a long list of Christmassy activities - including cookie baking and snowball fights - that feature. So, a little (or a lot!) cliched, and the chemistry between James and Fish isn't great...but Fish herself is fantastic. I will watch anything she's in and thoroughly enjoy it, no questions asked.
In 'The Christmas Retreat', Fish plays a workaholic who is convinced by her mother to attend a Christmas retreat where participants rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There (and also randomly once earlier in the film) she meets the recently-unemployed finance guy Mark (Clayton James) whose family owns the retreat.
Naturally, the sparks fly as both of them get back in touch with their Christmas roots, and there is a long list of Christmassy activities - including cookie baking and snowball fights - that feature. So, a little (or a lot!) cliched, and the chemistry between James and Fish isn't great...but Fish herself is fantastic. I will watch anything she's in and thoroughly enjoy it, no questions asked.