A Godwink Christmas: Meant for Love premiered on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries' Miracles of Christmas on November 17th and stars Cindy Busby (Alice) and Benjamin Hollingsworth (Jack). Kathy Lee Gifford appears in a supporting role as Olga, Alice's mom.
RATING (out of 5): 🎄
General Movie Details: Alice runs her family's boutique in Minneapolis but she's realizing that it isn't her calling. Jack lives in Dublin, Wisconsin and works in sales for a medical company. These two individuals are experiencing godwinks that keep bringing them together and cannot be ignored.
Meet Cute Moment: Alice is at the hotel for a charity event, the Schooner Gala, and Jack is there for his company's holiday party. He's slightly distracted on his phone and runs into Alice and feels an instant connection. Alice even remarks, "You're still holding my hands." In his confusion he follows her into the Schooner Gala insteard of his office party but he doesn't realize it's the wrong party. It's only later that he realizes his mistake but there paths continue to converge.
Giant Nutcracker Sighting: There are giant Nutcrackers on the street with Alice's shop that are seen periodically through the movie. Additionally, there are some Nutcrackers on the shopping district street in Dublin, Wisconsin which are also seen multiple times during the movie.
Obligatory moment of snark/personal rant: I have a major issue with the movie. There was a Godwink Christmas movie that premiered last year (which I actually liked - probably a 4-tree movie) that also has Kathy Lee Gifford in a co-starring role as the aunt of the main character. Now this year, she's also in this movie BUT her character is a completely new/different character. REALLY!?!? If you are going to create a series of movies based on theme where the characters are not related from one movie to another, then you really shouldn't have any of the same actors in the movie. It just makes things unnecessarily confusing.
There are a bunch of little oddities in the movie that left me scratching my head. Alice's job is retail which is usually not a high paying position. But she has an amazing gourmet kitchen in what looks to be a really nice apartment. Jack lives 90 minutes from Minneapolis but his company puts him up in a hotel when he has to work in the Minneapolis office. This just seems weird to me. Where I am from a 90 minute trip to the office is just called a daily commute, just saying. Alice and Jack make snow angels on their roadtrip when they get waylaid but they don't have gloves or mittens. As someone who has made this mistake before, it isn't fun and it is downright cold. I guess they are impervious to the cold or the costume designer just forgot to include handwear for the actors. At the hotel in Iowa, they are in rooms across the hall from each other which is not too coincidental. The weird part is that their room numbers were 302 and 312. Usually those rooms would be down the hall from each other not across the hall. I'd expect the rooms to be 302 and 303 if they were across the hall from each other. One of the issues that I have a real problem with is the way that Olga, Alice's mom, does not respect Alice's privacy. She and the rest of Alice's family are all too willing to share her private medical information with others without her knowledge or permission. That's just not right!
Hallmark Movie Connection: Cindy Busby was previously seen in Royal Hearts (2018) with Andrew Cooper. Benjamin Hollingsworth was previously in Lucky in Love (2014) with Jessica Szohr.
To me this movie was not nearly as enjoyable as the first Godwink Christmas but let me know if you feel differently.
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