Yes, this movie is sappy as hell and totally predictable, but fir me it captured exactly the Christmas spirit I was looking for in a movie. After reading all the dissing reviews my expectations weren't high, but somehow all of it surprised me. Pretty good acting, great to see Eliza Taylor again, and all the cliché elements were there, including the plot holes. Sure, we've seen this done tons of times before, but doesn't that just make it enjoyable. Well, for me it did!

Ellen Langford (Eliza Taylor) is a rich party girl who creates salacious newspaper headlines. Her father has had enough. To prove to him she is fit to inherit the family business, she is sent on a bus with $100 to deliver and a special Christmas letter to her dad's former partner in the small town of Snow Falls which has no mobile phone signal. Ellen cannot tell anyone who she really is.Her suitcase is run over by the local cabbie and innkeeper Jake Collins (Jake Lacy) who once spent some time in New York but he did not like the big city life. Ellen is stranded in the town during a snowstorm. She works in the inn to make some money, learns how to bake with the help of Jake's aunt. Ellen after spending some time in Snow Falls has a different outlook in life and falls for Jake despite being engaged.Although made by Netflix this is not too far removed from the Hallmark Christmas cookie cutter formula. Ellen and Jake give appealing performances but it all too syrupy. A sugar laced romance with the subtext of you have to go to a small town to find the true meaning of life.

Why did Ellie still like that small town boy after he was so hateful to her when he learned who she was? I otherwise sheepishly enjoyed this very bad Christmas movie.

I decided to watch this on Netflix simply because i couldn't find anything else to watch. This "Christmas Inheritance" is something that we've all seen a trillion times before, this film is similar to those Christmas TV lifetime movies except this film is a little better made.The performances are good, but the plot is cliched and predictable. As a Christian i can easily see a lot of Godly positive factors in this movie, it's a nice film, but it is not very entertaining. If you like these type of common story lines then you will like this movie.There is a negative element which i want to mention which is the biased view of small towns being good and big cities being negative, a comment was made in a piece of dialogue about why a particular character left New York, it's a generalisation, and as someone who lives in a city i can see why city life and city people can be seen as a negative, but at the same time i lived in a small town for a few months and not everyone was friendly there, so i don't buy everything that this movie was trying to feed me.Christmas Inheritance is predictable from the start and especially when the main female lead meets the male lead as soon as she arrives in that small town. To be honest i was hoping that she would stay with the black guy/her fiance, all he needed was a little bit of an attitude adjustment, or the film should have at least made the ending different by having her go back to New York without the fiance and just having a change of heart in general, that would have actually been better than going back to the small town with the romance cliched ending. This film is too safe, Netflix writers need to step up their game, Netflix are either making unwatchable dark films or films that are too common.Christmas Inheritance is just about watchable, and i say "just about" because it doesn't have any exciting or fun elements.