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Thought I would share today... two of the Christmas movies airing this week - if you are seeking some of the joy and merriment from the Holiday Season!
Christmas Fridays...
January 28, 2022:
First, enjoy this time-travel movie with stars from 'Back to the Future'...
Angie (Fonseca) wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes the train home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds herself 10 years in the past. With the advice of the train’s enigmatic conductor, Angie has the chance to revisit that Christmas and learn what – and who – is truly important to her.
See an encore of
Friday, January 28, 2022
at 8pm/7c. on the Hallmark Channel
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Christmas Saturdays...
January 29, 2022:
Then, design the perfect Christmas with Jill Wagner and Nick Bateman in GAC Family's...
In “A Christmas Miracle for Daisy,” Whitney Alder (Wagner) owns interior design firm Marietta Designs, which she runs with her friend Andi (Tegan Moss, “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries”) in the small town of Marietta, Montana. Whitney is designing Santa’s float for the annual Marietta Christmas Parade when a potential job opportunity comes her way: the full redesign of a landmark home by Christmas Eve. Despite the challenge, Whitney and Andi sign onto the job - only to discover the home’s new owner is Whitney’s ex-boyfriend, Connor Sheenan (Bateman), who has moved to town from Los Angeles with his bright-eyed, young daughter, Daisy (Rubi Tupper). Connor had no intention of becoming a family man, but when his goddaughter is orphaned, he adopts her and commits to becoming a devoted single dad. More than anything, Daisy wishes for a mom to complete her picture-perfect family, and no prospect is as perfect as Whitney. Tall order, but Christmas is a time for miracles.
See an encore of
Saturday, January 29, 2022
at 8pm/7c. on GAC Family
Hope you enjoy revisiting these Christmas movies this weekend!
Joyous Blessings to you all, Net
Joyous Blessings to you all, Net
A Christmas Miracle For Daisy has had quite good reviews but also several pretty negative ones causing the overall rating to be lower than I would have thought.
ReplyDeleteI'm with kitkat and Net on it.
Although we've still a couple of the GAC Christmas movies to see yet, this and The Great Sister Switch are my favourites.
A few years ago we started to watch a movie starring Nick Bateman not realising it was from Passionflix and there were some unsavoury scenes in it.
It has taken me a long while to recover from this and appreciate Nick.
He started redemption with Hallmark's A Brush With Love in which he co-starred with Arielle Kebbel.
Both he and Jill Wagner were excellent in Daisy - the facial expressions told a story right from the start paricularly so with Nick.
There was an abundance of chemistry from the start - the initial shock, then the awkwardness,the gradual realisation that the old feelings hadn't died.
You could very quickly see that Connor was still carrying a torch for Whitney.
There's just something which gets to me when a single man steps in to be a father to a child relative who has been orphaned - it suggests an innate goodness.
I think that Jill Wagner has changed somewhat - maybe it's to do with the fact that she now has a second child but probably the word I would use to describe her is that she seems more matronly but she has superb screen presence.
Whenever she and Mr Bateman were on the screen together it just felt so right and gave you a warm glow.
I though the young girl playing Daisy was delightful in the role - not overacting as so often happens.
Interesting plot and enough but not a surfeit of Christmas.
A really nice ending too - the bewilderment on Nick's face when during the inevitable "misunderstanding" Whitney decided not to spend Christmas with him but go to her sister in Denver, then THE kiss in the final scene with Nick holding Daisy in one arm with his other around Whitney the absolute adoration on his face would have melted the most hardened heart.
I have to be honest though (and it could only be me) but there was a downside to the movie.
I'm afraid that I found Whitney's best friend very irritating - she seemed to have an obsessive interest in Whitney's relationship with Nick and then after blowing Eric off so ,when he turned cool (let's face it who wouldn't)? and started showing an interest in another woman she changed about face.
This did sort of strike a wrong note with me.
Overall a heartwarming movie though and definitely one of the best of 2021's Christmas movies.
Florence's rating - tough, but for the friend this might have been a rare 10 but I'm going with an 8.5 which I may upgrade to a 9.
Wow, Florence, thank you for this thoughtful review! I just watched "A Christmas Miracle For Daisy" over the weekend and really enjoyed it. I had also seen some of those negative reviews before watching, so I was wondering if I would like it, as well, but I it exceeded my expectations and more!
DeleteAn 8.5 rating (maybe a 9!) is an impressive number! Thank you for sharing!
I posted your review on the 2021 Christmas Movie review page:
https://itsawonderfulmovie.blogspot.com/2021/10/which-2021-christmas-movies-made-its.html
What is on Christmas Thursday on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries?
ReplyDeleteChris, The Thursday Christmas movie tonight is "Debbie Macomber’s A Mrs. Miracle Christmas". I decided not to share based on the reviews.
DeleteAnonymous, I didn't know anything about Nick Bateman until I saw him on Hallmark, but he is becoming a favorite. Just to tell you how much I loved A Christmas Miracle For Daisy, I have watched 4 times already, so I would give it a 10, even with the irritating friend.
ReplyDeleteI loved A Christmas Miracle for Daisy.
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