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The Love Letter (2013)
Cute, but Low Budget
This is a cute movie with attractive leads and a pleasant - if predictable - plot. My only complaint is that it is really low budget and it shows. The sets are small, there are few extras, and the production qualities are low. However, I thought the two leads did a great job with the material.
A Perfect Christmas (2016)
Cute, but Predictable
This is a cute - but predictable - holiday movie from Hallmark about a couple keeping secrets during their first Christmas together.
I enjoyed the fast pace and supporting cast, but was annoying by one thing: they made the wife "a cute little idiot" in order for the story to work. At the beginning of the film, they showed us that she was a smart and competent woman with a good marriage, her own house, and a career of her own. However, the same character turns into a stupid little idiot over and over again, by leaving a suitcase behind, canceling a hotel reservation for no good reason, and burning a pan of lasagna (after specifically being told to take it out of the oven in 10 minutes).
By the end of the movie, I was completely annoyed by the "cute little idiot" messing things up, which isn't what the writers were going for. It would have been a far better movie if she hadn't been responsible for every mistake and the blame had been spread around among the other characters.