My Christmas preparations include Hallmark Christmas movies, as a warm soft background to get me in the holiday mood. I therefore do give those movies a lot of leeway.
I can ignore the super-formulaic plot, of a big city woman returning to home town (not a spoiler: ...to stay). I can forgive that the said woman must give up her good career for some doomed venture (wood toy shop, really?), because of a man. I can overlook the tad boringly stereotypical actor setup, with the blonde, conventionally good-looking Caucasian man and woman.
This movie, however, had just one of the worst acting and clunkiest dialogues I've ever seen. It was so grating, I couldn't even finish this without fastforwarding.
I can ignore the super-formulaic plot, of a big city woman returning to home town (not a spoiler: ...to stay). I can forgive that the said woman must give up her good career for some doomed venture (wood toy shop, really?), because of a man. I can overlook the tad boringly stereotypical actor setup, with the blonde, conventionally good-looking Caucasian man and woman.
This movie, however, had just one of the worst acting and clunkiest dialogues I've ever seen. It was so grating, I couldn't even finish this without fastforwarding.