Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

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.

Hated this movie. For so many reasons. Like so many have mentioned, signing a contract without a respectable lawyer reading it? How stupid. The evil man who you keep hoping will say in the end she didn't have to pay the rest of the money? Can't you legally void a contract if you think there was some dubious stuff going on? Not disclosing all the terms etc.? Just a stupid movie. It's just as bad in July 2018 as it was awhile back during Christmas time. My least favorite Christmas movie ever. The one good thing is to see a different actress. Tired of seeing Candace Cameron Bure, Danica, and Lacey in so many of the movies. Did I say this was bad?

Did anyone do any legal work who wrote this movie the contract wasn't notarized or filed most places give you the right to cancel if you change your mind she could have just grabbed contract and tore it up worst ending I ever saw in a movie

I love the 3 main characters in this movie; Jules the grand daughter heir to Christmas land (Nikki Deloach), Tucker (Luke Macfarlane) the good guy, and Mitchell the bad for you boyfriend. Nikki Deloach was in "A Dream of Christmas" this year- which was a much better movie (I hope she continues to do Christmas movies). I really enjoyed the first 30 minutes, liked the second 30 minutes but the final part of the movie really lagged. Richard Karn (Home Improvements Al) character just didn't work. I noticed they put well known actresses like Cynthia Gibbs and Maureen McCormick in such really small parts. I loved that they put Chonda Pierce in the movie and that worked well. Most of the reviews hated the ending of the story and I agree. I would recommend watching it though.

Because Tucker's "nice-play-to-visit-but-don't-wanna-live-there" attitude _most definitely_ makes him anti-big city/pro-small town. Which, in turn, is not an entirely good thing. As it's basically just a latter-day version of the exact same isolationism that was so unfortunately predominant throughout the United States during the Great Depression. Thereby making Tucker's naivete as proportionately unhealthy as Jules' initial, materialistic skepticism."Central Park is nature, now?" For youngsters born and raised in NYC who can't afford to get bused off to some rural nature preserve for just one day: frig, yeah! It's as close to nature as they're ever going to get. Especially, if those same kids don't come from the fortunate few families who have _successfully_ raised fruits and vegetables in urban community gardens no bigger than one square acre! And for those latter acts of "going green," such city-slickers should be praised. Not begrudged!I, myself, come from a not-so-small town in Northwest Connecticut. Population: over forty thousand! Yet, while that admittedly disqualifies us from ever being a tri-state metropolis like the Big Apple, neither are we (in the immortal words of FOOTLOOSE's Christopher Penn) "stuck in Leave-It-To-Beaverland." In short; you don't have to spend your _whole life_ in an actual small town to have small town values.A legitimate point more successfully demonstrated by the 2005 Hallmark Xmas movie, SILVER BELLS.