hyped garbage

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Kristy Swanson stars in this Christmas film about a woman with three kids in search of a new job and place to call home after her toad of a husband skips town with all the family's cash. To make matters even more complicated one of the kids is a stepson, who isn't happy about being separated from his father (even though he is much better off for it!). They eventually land in a town where the residents are mostly helpful, but a few are out to scam her out of every dime she has. In the end Christmas spirit is out in full force!

BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THAT PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 200 Christmas MOVIES. I HAVE NO AGENDA. I AM FARE ABOUT THESE FILMS.This film is not a ripoff of "It's a Wonderful Life". That is a topic that someone started on IMDb message board. I can assure that it may of drawn inspiration from that film but it has more in common with "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore". In this film a woman finds herself suddenly single after she wakes up one day and finds out her husband has just ran off with another woman. She takes off to in a car and end ups in a small town where she ends up living a motel and becomes an overnight waitress at a local restaurant.You can check off all the boxes on the Christmas movie check off list with this film but that doesn't mean this isn't a good film it really is a nice film to see. The on camera talent is above average. It is enjoyable. Most of all it shows that it is better to give than to receive. To many people the plot may seem "Unbelievable" but trust me in small towns people really do help each other. They know how to be good neighbors. I am a liberal but trust me "The South" has many good decent hard working and caring people.

When first seeing the DVD case, I assumed it was going to be boring, preachy and needlessly heavy handed in being so. I was correct, unfortunately, yet I was still unprepared for the horrible acting, scripting and execution. The movie can be summarized as follows: women loses husband, moves, settles in new town, goes through a bunch of contrived and boring crap, only to finally get help after praying. The problem is that there is no sign any of it had anything to do with god. The villagers were already helping her almost as much as the government support programs she should have swallowed her pride and gotten for the sake of her children. There was no surprise when she got the financial support and room, which is why it makes no sense as to why she believed it was from god. Clearly, whoever made this had a religious agenda. Maybe her husband would have stayed with her if she had an actual personality.I personally felt this movie lacked a few things, such as a decent script, decent actors and an engaging story. Kick-Ass, by virtue of a capable director and decent acting would be a better choice for the family. Sure, it may not be appropriate, but at least they will be entertained. As a plus, the humor there is intentional, and it works.For this reason, I cannot recommend that you buy this movie. The only thing they got right was holding the camera still, and given that most movies are shot on a mounted camera, even that may be giving it too much credit. Maybe not, considering that if they are making back 100 times their budget each time they sell one DVD, maybe they couldn't afford a mounted camera.All in all, lacking even unintentional humor or talent on the part of anyone involved, this travesty fails even as "so bad its horrible material". It isn't something I willingly watched, actively though unsuccessfully trying to avoid it. If you like boring, contrived, sappy, pointless and irritating movies so bad they fail to even provoke the bile fascination caused by Birdemic, this movie is for you. But if you are a normal person, watching this should be akin to an arachnophobe seeing a spider the size of a dog. That you would avoid it at all costs and never look at it again.

This is a very watchable movie, very typical of the Hallmark Channel Christmas movies, which my wife and I love to watch to get us in the holiday spirit. As is typical, we find a woman whose rodeo cowboy husband has abandoned her; leaving her broke and with three kids to care for. Things go from bad to worse as she battles a series of mishaps trying to find a new home for herself and her children. If you ever think that you've had a bad day or week, you've never gone through anything like this woman faces! The acting is, however, very good, from a variety of veterans, like Edward Hermann, Tess Harper, and others. Ultimately, as with all Hallmark movies, things are resolved in the final six minutes.This is a very enjoyable movie, and I was especially surprised and impressed with the plot theme of showing the true meaning of Christmas, and the power of prayer, something which most modern movies avoid. It definitely is a "feel good" movie, and one which teaches strong family values. Despite the predicable, and somewhat thin plot, and several loose ends being hastily tied up at the end, it is worth the watch.