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Possible Spoiler about something revealed early on and some pretty obvious plots.

Really torn between a five and a six star rating. I don't know why writers insist on putting so much stupidity in what could otherwise be a good movie. Maybe it's just my pet peeve but it's really annoying.

What I like: I felt Kathryn Davis (Madison) and Franco Lo Presti (Ethan) had Good chemistry. Franco was good in both roles and the duel rolls moved the movie along at a nice pace. Most of the characters had good roles and fulfilled their parts nicely.

What I DISLIKED: The OVER THE TOP store owner and the woman with him and the supposed security person felt unprofessional, absurdity over the top, and I found the behavior very annoying. Did not feel like it contributed well to the movie. You could have a suspicious security guard without them acting stupid and it would have fulfilled the same functions without being annoying. This made me want to give the movie a four star rating at best. Thankfully they weren't on screen for any more time than they were.

This was a fun movie until the final 3rd where we have to listen to this vain, self obsessed character talk about how betrayed she feels. Um, you didn't even recognize this man you have known your entire life because he had in a wig and beard? That tells me exactly how much you actually pay attention to the people around you. She has a checklist for the perfect man but she really needs to look at herself first. What a horrible character. I felt so bad for the guy in this one. He deserves so much better than to end up with this woman who is never, ever truly going to see him.

Also, why didn't that other guy get fired? He crossed a line and performed incredibly unprofessionally in a very public way.

Madison Jacobs (Kathryn Davis) is a department store executive at the Chester + Wade department store. As she prepares an out of the box menswear fashion show for sponsor Paul Grant (oh man, that's Scott Thompson, who is doing a show at a winery near me and I kind of want to go but also wish he was playing bigger stages so maybe it makes me sad). Instead of worrying why everyone just goes to Amazon instead of her store - has to hire the perfect Santa, a young one with a sense of style. She hired her best friend Ethan Davis (Franco Lo Presti) to be the dream Santa, who gets a walking through the store intro scene where it is made known that every single person wants to have Santa slide down their chimney and eat all their cookies.

The secret is that Ethan hasn't told Madison that he's playing his fake cousin Rafe Hollifield and is trying to win her over after a lifetime of just being friends. And yes, this is the same department store from Christmas On the Slopes.

Directed by Amy Force, who also directed Country Hearts Christmas, We're Scrooged, Christmas Lucky Charm, Christmas In Rockwell, Christmas On 5th Avenue, Christmas In the Rockies and Dashing Home for Christmas, and written by Paula Tiberius, who wrote Christmas In Big Sky Country, Christmas On the Slops, Country Roads Christmas and Snowbound for Christmas.

Can Santa be hot? Watch this and learn for yourself.