source: Chocolate Covered Christmas

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My family and I love watching these Lifetime films, and this one was no exception! In typical Lifetime fashion, Sadie's parents are selling their candy shop to a handsome young man, and she's not happy about it... but maybe there's something between them. Malone Thomas & Jason Burkey were fun to watch as romance unfolds in this sweet holiday film.

I thought the male lead was quite good in this. Sure his part didn't make any sense at all, but I watched it all the way through because he was such a consistently believable nice guy. The little girl was cute, a decent actress for that age, and her singing was nice. The female lead, on the other hand, was booooooring. Wow. She wasn't given much of a script to work with, but it's like she didn't even try. Also, the script had her be mean one minute and then nice the next minute, not interested and then super interested, acting like an adult then a teen. And she was passive aggressive and had no communication skills. It's just not believable that the male lead is interested in her at all once she does a few of her intense mood swings. He'd be running the other way!

As many people have already stated, the leading lady was...painful to watch. Not sure how this particular actress got the part but I'm convinced a piece of wood would have been more convincing. (Maybe that's why she's so pouty/mopey throughout). The leading man met typical hallmark standard, though given the ability of his love interest chemistry would have been more convincing with said piece of wood. The little girl who played his daughter - well, I'm not going to be mean but it was not great. Was she cute? Yeah. Apparently that was the only requirement. Typical hallmark plot, entirely predictable but somehow still unpleasant.

I managed to make it through 14 minutes through this movie before hysterically shutting it off. Start your season off right and watch a different movie. I managed this stomach Netflix's Santa Girl, but I couldn't make it through this one. Who ever made the choice decision to have music in every moment of this movie made a terrible decision. It overtakes each scene to the point where I couldn't easily hear or remember what the characters were talking about. The acting is very monotone which does a great job in highlighting the music as well. If you're into listening to ambient holiday music, log onto Spotify and throw on a random holiday playlist. The ad breaks are much less aggravating than this movie's audio balance.

I barely made it through 30 minutes of this movie. This is the second year I've watched all Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies. This is the first one I'm unable to watch. The acting is horrible, the characters are unbelievable and I can't connect to the story. The Hallmark actors/actresses are much better because they've made so many of them. It seems Lifetime finds the most underrated and unknown actors to star in their films. I'm not wasting my DVR space for anymore of these Lifetime Christmas movies. I'm sticking to Hallmark. Sorry not sorry.

This was an odd movie. The lead female character was unlikable. She was spoiled, pouts, and is very sore loser, who changed her major in college because she did not win a contest. She did not seem interested in the store or chocolate until her boyfriends stands her up and she goes home and discovers her parents are selling the store they have owned for 40 years, without even consulting their spoiled only child. This whole plot was sloppy and full of holes and awkward. Also why does Lifetime constantly list their movies under different titles? To hide the bad ones from people? This is the 5th movie I have looked up in their 2020 catalog that has a different title then the final title they run it under.

It's a Christmas movie that's suppose to be a casual one time watch anyway. The thing that disappointed me was the Main Actress who is the protagonist is a pretty stoic face. That's all she is. I mean the acting was so bad. She's pretty and all but that's not enough for a good movie. The best friend of the main actress was more appealing to me. Anyhow it's worse than a throwaway movie. The 'conflict' was meh and the whole movie ended up being meh thereafter.

I'm going to quit recording these movies showing after Dec 20th. Every one has been lame. They must save the worst for last. This one makes no sense.