The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

December. 13,2008      
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7.3
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Five-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Henry Winkler stars in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, the story of what happens when you open your heart to the power of Christmas. Disenchanted single mom Jennifer Cullen (Brooke Burns) is a Scroogette when it comes to anything Christmas. In fact, even her six-year-old son, Brian, is having trouble believing in Santa Claus. But when her Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler) visits and brings a fellow passenger from his flight named Morgan Derby (Warren Christie), Jennifer s dubious heart awakens to the possibility that perhaps Christmas really does hold miracles. It s uplifting and laugh-packed and a story that will inspire the whole family to believe.

Brooke Burns as  Jennifer Cullen
Henry Winkler as  Uncle Ralph
Warren Christie as  Morgan Derby
Woody Jeffreys as  Richard Windom
Serge Houde as  Stephen Windom
Rebecca Toolan as  Winnie Windom
Michael Roberds as  Chet Wojorski
Rukiya Bernard as  Denise
Vanesa Tomasino as  Wanda
Lauro Chartrand as  Mugger

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Reviews

Solemplex
2008/12/13

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Actuakers
2008/12/14

One of my all time favorites.

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GazerRise
2008/12/15

Fantastic!

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AnhartLinkin
2008/12/16

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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alweston
2008/12/17

I love this holiday movie. The casting is perfect, the story is good , just all around well done! My favorite "hallmark" Christmas movie.

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Davis P
2008/12/18

This Hallmark Channel movie is everything you would expect it to be.,..... That's the problem. I was hoping to be surprised and see a film that wasn't a cliché generic classic hallmark channel movie. Well, Henry Winkler is here, so that was kinda cool i guess. The script was just eh, nothing that special. The comedy and jokes are not funny. The acting is OK at times and better than OK at a few other times. The main male actor is kinda cute, so that's a plus, wish there would've been a shirtless scene with him, but then again it is hallmark channel. The main actress did pretty well too. I would've like to have seen the lead actress's fiancé shirtless too, this movie does have male eye candy, I got kinda bored during the film, and those guys kept me walking away Hahahaha. The movie is just too cheesy and Generic and unfunny for me. But hey it's not like it's awful, it's just not good. 4/10. Let's hear it for the cute guys 😉

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MartianOctocretr5
2008/12/19

It's another rom-com meets Christmas themed movie. If you wondered whatever happened to Fonz, he's a veteran New York cop or something. As late December approaches, he travels to visit his only living relatives, a niece and her son who live in Chicago. Now, hold your breath: through some incomprehensible turn of events starting with almost missing his flight to Chicago, his niece (a single mom of course) agrees to let this stranger (a square jawed guy with 3 days' stubble) stay at her house. OK: Uncle Fonz. Single Mom. Square-jawed guy with 3 days' stubble. Kid. One more element needed: the obnoxious uppity business minded wrong-guy-for-her dude who's always talking on a cell phone. Antagonist cliché in place; here we go.Give the cast credit: they take this jumbled premise and make a story out of it. Uncle Fonz and the beard stubble guy provide most of the jokes. Several gags do work: the sound effects for Kris Kringle's visit scene was actually pretty funny. The romantic tension between the triangle members has its moments. Since it's a rom-com, the public address system bit (like the whole movie) has to be taken with a grain of salt, or you'll roll your eyes so hard they'll hurt. Will the guy she's known for two days win the girl over a jerk? Who can possibly guess?

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cam3150
2008/12/20

This movie is for you if you like pure romantic fluff in a Christmas setting. I personally love these type of movies so I loved this one. It's complete escapism for me but I'm also a romantic at heart. This one will definitely go in to my annual rotation and, if it does come out on video, I'll be purchasing it.With these type of movies, the romantic leads don't always have chemistry but Brooke Burns and Warren Christie have boatloads of it. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Warren is one of the best looking men I've seen in a while :) The story is cute and uncomplicated - The Uncle of an impossibly beautiful single mom (Jen) shares a flight with an impossibly beautiful guy (Morgan) in his 30's who can't seem to settle down in one place (read: very full Passport). Several snow storms and canceled flights later, the Uncle convinces his niece to allow the "stranger" to stay with them "for just one night" until the airport re-opens. One night turns in to 2, etc, due to some finagling by the uncle who is convinced that Morgan is good for his niece. He is considerate, kind, helpful with household chores, and is wonderful with her son. He really helps Jen to find the "Christmas Spirit" so to speak. Not helping matters is that Jen has a boyfriend who is a self-centered jerk complete with $800 shoes and completely stuck-up parents. He is awful with her son and is responsible for the plot point that eventually drives Morgan and Jen together.Yes, it's predictable. Yes, it's "fluffy". But, in all reality, that's what makes it an enjoyable movie for me. I love romance movies anyway and I really love those that are set during Christmas. If you feel the same way, and aren't looking for anything more out of it, you will love this movie.

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