This is one of those films that make you hate "Hallmark Movies". The screenplay is terrible. The acting quality is not there. You have 2 people who are 20 years too old for the parts. In this film a widow of a soldier is hard up for cash. Her hours are being cut down at work. She is now renting out a room and she happens to rent it out to a solider that is on the mend from combat duty. Together they are both not only mending each other but they are also trying to save the city's museum. Because this is a Hallmark film you know what is going to happen. A SUGAR COMA!!!

This movie is predictable and never really rises above that. There was nothing in the story that made it special.The acting was mostly good. I was particularly impressed with Michael Shanks. He plays a disciplined and serious man who is a product of a lot of years in the army, yet he is still able to show some emotion including a positive attitude. Julie Benz has a difficult part. I don't think you can watch this movie and not ask why her character would follow the course that she does. And I'm not sure the answer came through. Perhaps someone in that situation would get it, but the actor's and writer's job is to show it to the audience. I'm not saying Benz did a bad job. I tend to think more that the role might have been too much for anyone, at least the way it was written. Even Sergeant Mullins' choices were hard to understand. Shanks made a stab at it, but again I don't think the limitations of the film made it possible to portray it well.There were definitely some heartwarming moments and I think on the whole I would recommend it with some reservations.

Both of the lead characters play the parts of war-torn lost souls. The story is that of a fairy tale which tells the rest of us to keep our hearts open even when it hurts. This is not a story about Christmastime, only, but one of lost love and finding one's way. Yeah, the Grinch which wrote the bad review is certainly an evil troll looking for love in all the wrong places. Just give the movie a try and see that not everything about the world is bad.

I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 400 (C H R I S T M A S ) MOVIES AND SPECIALS.BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. NOW I HAVE NO AGENDA! I AM HONEST! I REVIEW MOVIES & SPECIALS AS A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN!I want to say I am a huge fan of Michael Shanks. He is one tall good looking man. However as good as he is I think he is "Too Old" for the part he plays here. Same for Julie Benz. The leads should be around 30 not pushing 50. However they are both likable. Michael however shines 10x better in "Christmas Lodge". In this film military a military widow rents an apartment to an Army Captain recovering from an injury in battle. As they team up to save the town's military museum with a Christmas fund raising event, these two "wounded birds" find themselves falling in love. Now my biggest gripe about this film is that the widow is some what dating a guy who does love her. I felt bad for him because he is a victim here. He never pushes Amanda to do anything she doesn't want to do. Then he really gets pushed to the side. The worse film of the "Hallmark Movies of 2017"