Christmas at Graceland: Home For The Holidays premiered on Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas on November 23rd and stars Kaitlin Doubleday (Harper) and Adrian Grenier (Owen). Priscilla Presley makes a cameo appearance.
RATING (out of 5): 🌟 Just a reminder that the star =1/2 a Christmas tree and is basically as low as it goes ranking wise.
General Movie Details: Harper has been working in museums across Europe and came home for Christmas for the first time in 3 years. She's interviewing at the Brooks Museum for their international curator position and is in town for the holiday and waiting to find out if she got the position. Owen's a widowed businessman with 3 kids and he is without childcare while his nanny is home for the holidays and her backup fell through. Harper volunteers to fill in while she's in town.
Meet Cute Moment: She gives his kids (and her nieces) a private tour of Graceland which she did back in high school. When he picks up his kids he proceeds to stick his foot in his mouth a bit and then offers her the temporary nanny position.
Obligatory moment of snark/personal rant: I'll be honest, I didn't finish the movie... I turned if off about halfway through. There was no chemistry and not really anything believable or interesting in the way of a plot. I should also admit that I didn't watch last year's Christmas at Graceland (2018) which is completely fine since the two movies may share a name they are in no way related. Thanks Hallmark for not only adding to the confusion but also disappointing. So the movie starts no earlier than 3 weeks until Christmas and Owen is just starting to plan the Christmas Eve fundraiser at Graceland, the newly crowned Gala of Giving. I really find that hard to believe. About as difficult to believe as the fact that Harper is recruited to work on helping to curate the Elvis at Christmas special exhibit. No offense but that if it is that close to Christmas, any events and exhibits would already be finalized. I mean the special exhibit should already be mounted. So I found the whole thing to be utterly unbelievable and there was really nothing else substantial enough in the plot or performances to hold my interest. Also, they really made Memphis out to be quite white during December. I didn't think that they reliably had snow in the area of the country for that long. I get that they want to make it look and feel like Christmas but it seems to be a bit much this time. The one thing that I did see that I liked was the light up wooden advent calendar that plays music when the drawers are open that Harper gave Owen's kids.
Hallmark Movie Connection: Kaitlin previously had a supporting role in Chance at Romance (2014) starring Erin Krakow and Ryan McPartlin. Adrian was previously in Love at First Glance with Amy Smart.
If you did make it through the whole movie I hope that you found it an enjoyable watch. With 14 movie premieres between 11/23 and 12/2, I just don't have the time or energy to watch a sub par Christmas movie.
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