Review Date 3/29/2018When a Doctor Nathan (Neil Patrick Harris),, loses a patient , he decides that being a doctor isn't meant for him, and he wants to give it up. He decides to take a vacation to his hometown, and stay with his father (Hugh Thompson).To tell you more would be wrong. However this film is sad but is also a lesson about life and how we deal with "Bad Things" and realizing your own mortality and how you want to live your life.

The story is spread out in a lot of directions. The paths cross, so that's not so bad. But then it still drags a little. Fortunately it appears that Nathan and Meghan had more going on off screen than the brief screen time, so it is not ridiculous that they fell in love so quickly.We really come to identify with Charlie, so ***SPOILERS*** what happens gives a really sad flavor to the movie. Got to say, for once, we don't have a completely Hallmark ending.I wasn't impressed with sets, or acting. There were some popular songs including one performed, at least part of it, by Blake Shelton.There were a lot of reality holes and not just the typical Hallmark ending. A lot of medical things just didn't make sense, and Nathan's age (unless he was really Doogie Howser with a new identity). And what happened to the gift that fell out of the first kid's pocket and Nathan picked up? There were some heartwarming moments and a sweet romance.

While the movie told a nice enough, and romantic enough, story about love, family and moving on, they could have done a lot better job with some of the details. For example, if Meghan were really that sick with liver disease, wouldn't she have shown signs of jaundice by the time she collapsed? And therefore wouldn't Nathan, as a doctor, have seen that easily? Especially since he was staring into her eyes all the time.And if Charlie was sick for that long with a heart issue, wouldn't his father have kept him out of strenuous sporting activity? I know he had issues about his wife leaving him and then dying, but he obviously cared deeply for his son. If, as Charlie said, he had seen "a thousand" doctors then this would have been well known. Just sloppy writing.

I haven't been a fan of his for too long, but I do appreciate his talents. However, I cannot find anything else in this movie to really talk about. I know it is about Christmas time, but nothing really comes from that.Harris is a doctor turned wannabe auto mechanic in order to be closer to his dad. He cares after a kid who ends up having heart problems. Fair enough. But the woman he is after also has medical problems with her liver. Eventually the boy dies, the woman lives, and I assume Harris makes up with his dad. But everything else seems lacking.It really seemed like a mess. There were two stories going at once and the director had a hard time combining the two. As a result, this film struggled and could not get going. "D+"