Rating: 🎄🎄
Premier Date: November 16, 2025
Description: When the accountant for Carrie Williams’ family’s Christmas lodge makes off with all of their money, Carrie has just 2 days to come up with nine months of missing mortgage payments or be foreclosed upon. Charming developer John Dunn has been calling Carrie from afar for a while, and now he’s here in person to make an offer on the ranch she can hardly refuse. Can Carrie raise enough funds before the deadline to save her home? Or will she be forced to sell to John, who hasn’t been entirely truthful about how he came to be there.
Chemistry: I absolutely believed that these two had been hired to play people in a movie—and that was about it. You’ll need to lower your expectations with this network. The acting won’t be top-notch. They do their best, and it’s fine for a time waster, but don’t expect it to move you to tears.
Plot: It’s a tired plot. Woman is about to lose the family ranch to foreclosure. There’s a festival. The man wanting to buy it shows up unexpectedly, and they grow close through Christmas activities. The twist at the end was kind of a shocker, so maybe power through just for the opportunity to furrow your brow and ask, “What just happened?”
Design: So my big problem with networks like UPtv is that their movies look like they gave someone $50 and told them to go shop at Dollar Tree to dress the entire set. There are stockings hanging from kitchen cabinets, random bits of tinsel garland everywhere, and strings of lights wrapped around places where they really shouldn’t be.
Overall: Maybe I’m feeling generous. This one should probably be in the one tree ratings, but I’ll let it live at two. Just keep the fast forward handy and don’t look too closely.
Best Enjoyed With: A plate of slightly stale Christmas cookies you found in a tin from last year—because, much like this movie, they’re edible, vaguely festive, and you’ll definitely want something else immediately after.
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