Our Christmas Love Song premiered on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries' Miracles of Christmas on November 24th and stars Alicia Witt (Melody) and Brendan Hines (Chase).
RATING (out of 5): 🎄
General Movie Details: Melody (apropos name) is a country star who has really made it and even debuts a new Christmas song at the Grand Ole Opry. She seems to have it all but her mentor accuses her of copying the song from one of hers. She has 12 days (until Christmas) to prove she wrote it. So she goes home to Madison, Indiana for Christmas for the first time in 2 years to try to find notes that can prove the authorship of her song. Chase is her ex-boyfriend and former writing partner who didn't leave Madison and is running his family's tavern.
Re-Meet Cute Moment: Chase and Melody have a history as high school sweethearts. Sometimes the easiest way to deal with exes and past relationships is to avoid them at all costs. Well Madison is a pretty small town so of course you would run into each other in the grocery store and have an awkward conversation. Seemed to be an homage to You've Got Mail and the awkward encounter the main characters have at Zabar's.
Missed Nutcracker Moment: There is apparently a Nutcracker presentation event that happens at the tree lighting but we the audience don't get to attend but instead get to see another 4 minute commercial interlude.
Obligatory moment of snark/personal rant: Let me start by saying that I didn't have high hopes for this movie because of the preview in the commercial. There was something weird about how she was moving while playing. But I hoped that I was going to be wrong. Alicia Witt is an actual song writer and performer so I felt like the performance would be good. I did like her performance at the Grand Ole Opry but wasn't really in love with the original Christmas songs. The plot was a bit weak with her mission to find a slip of paper with proof that she wrote the song years ago. There wasn't much chemistry between the characters and it felt like they were dialing it in. The movie concludes in typical Hallmark fashion with one character uprooting their life for the other.
Hallmark Movie Connection: Alicia is a Hallmark movie stalwart and seems to appear in a movie each Holiday season. One of my favorite of hers was A Very Merry Mix Up (2013) with Mark Wiebe. This movie appears to be Brendan Hines Hallmark debut, however, he has been working in supporting cast roles on a number of TV series over the years. I previously caught him as a recurring guest role in Scorpion.
Let me know if you felt differently about this one than me.
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