Mariah Carey directs and has a side part as an overbearing head PTA mom with mean girl attitude.Lacey Chabert is the lead a designer that must move home from LA to Ohio as her business failed.Skip It!

This movie was terrible. Awful. It's like they took off the shelf Hallmark Christmas movie plot points and tried to stir them together. As long as they are in the movie, they count? Real Santa pretending to be a fake Santa...check. Small town...check. Love interest from back home...check. High profile job in big city...check. Daughter of somebody...check. Aunt/Mom who runs a diner...check. But it didn't work, and it shows.This apparently was Mariah Carey's directorial debut - and it shows. She was mostly in fuzzy head shots making me think she not on set and they shot all her individual TV moments on a separate day.Why Santa decides to be a janitor and call himself "Thomas" instead of the usual "Nick" is beyond me. The acting, dialog, pacing, and everything was just bad, not even cheesy, just bad. The only person I liked was the guy who plays the host in UnReal.

Enjoyed this movie, of course typical Hallmark fare. At first, I thought this was Mariah Carey's acting debut, but according to the Comcast program guide, she has done two others. One she flopped,the other did apparently very well. It seemed like she was so intent on directing herself, with the many spotlighted close- ups that her acting fell flat in this movie. The real star of the movie was Fina Strazza who played nine year old Emily Parson.

Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliott are the leads in this Christmas movie. What could be better than reuniting the All of My Heart duo, right? Well surprise because the answer is Fina Strazza. This kid is so cute. Her face is adorable and she knows how to use it on screen. She can sing too. And she is totally the star of this movie. Seriously - you have to see this girl.Chabert and Elliott do their job too. Clearly they work well together. At least this time they didn't throw paint.Mariah Carey plays a really arrogant and just plain mean mom who thinks everything is about her kid.The story is just too sweet. Lots of great things happen. Many will say it is too sappy, but one person's sappy is another person's perfect Christmas movie.