HM tried to get a lot into this movie. In Love Actually style, it's actually 4 different stories but the main focus is on Jessica and Luke, which is unfortunate because the "older" love story here with Aunt Lila and Tom seems much more interesting. I would think highlighting a more mature story would go over well with the average HM viewer so I'm not sure why we don't get any of those unless it's a secondary plotline.
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This is essentially 4 stories in 1 but we spend way too much time on Jessica (Torrey DeVitto) and Luke (Chad Michael Murray). Jessica intends to send her boyfriend a Christmas card a day for a week to get him into the Christmas spirit but when he abruptly breaks up with her, she sends them to 5 important people in her life instead - we know 1 goes to her bother as he awaits deployment; 1 goes to the aunt that raised them; 1 goes to Jessica's teenage popstar crush, Jax; another to her best friend, Mimi; and the 5th goes to her elementary school music teacher, Mrs. Miller. It turns out, though, that Mrs. Miller is away for a year teaching in Kenya and the card is open and read by her son, Luke. At his mother's request, Luke tracks Jessica down and blah blah blah. Jessica misinterprets a moment between photographer Luke and one of his clients, and Luke, in turn, misinterprets a moment between Jessica and her ex-boyfriend.
At an Army base, Carter (Madison Smith) receives his Christmas card and it serves as an icebreaker for him to talk to another private he's been crushing on. In the end, they both receive orders to deploy to Germany.
Meanwhile, Aunt Lila (Lolita Davidovich) gets an unexpected visitor when she retrieves her mail one day, in the form of a wee dog named Blitzen. Blitzen is being temporarily looked after by Lila's dishy neighbor, Tom (Grant Show). Seriously, that man looks better now than he ever did, but I digress... Once again, HM misses the mark by not focusing more or making Lila and Tom the central couple of the movie. Both widowers, Tom explains to Lila that Blitzen's original owner can't care for him anymore so Lila offers to foster Blitzen and help Tom find the dog's "forever home". Spoiler alert: Blitzen's forever home is with Lila.
There's also another story mixed in there about Jax (Drew Seeley), a once-popular boyband star who broke up the band to go solo. Turns out he's more JC Chasez than Justin Timberlake but he did have one massively popular hit with a Christmas pop song. The song is peppered throughout parts of the movie with, predictably, the female characters loving it and the male characters groaning to turn it off. Jax and the band reunite for "one night only" at a local bar and this is where Jessica and Luke reunite.
Somehow Jax ends up playing at the orphanage Christmas party and Jessica and Luke spend Christmas with Lila and Tom.
There's also a lot of references to the whole insane moon conversation from It's A Wonderful Life.
Jessica is clearly Christmas crazy.
Those 5 cards probably cost close to $30.
So Jessica and not-doctor Wesley have been dating for 3 months and she's already putting him on Christmas cards and her friend is talking engagement? Maybe she's crazy crazy, not just Christmas crazy.
We're 8 minutes in and we've already got a doomed relationship, unrealized cello dreams, a soldier, a broken down pop star, a good looking neighbor with a little dog, and a mystery man.
The soldier is Jessica's brother.
"I was going to say I think we should stop seeing each other" Like a normal person. He was not proposing.
Oh, she's snapped. She's giving up on dating and on holidays, mainly Christmas.
I can't imagine anyone is holding any meaningful auditions "the day before Christmas", also known as "Christmas Eve".
She's literally sitting at a table talking out loud. She claims she's running lines but I'm skeptical.
He's sat for .03 seconds and she's already asking him to take new headshots. Luke should run far away very quickly.
10 seconds later she's asking him to run lines with her. Apparently, the part is for a psycho. Why is Luke not running away yet?
Why is he opening and reading someone else's mail?
Well, Grant Show is like a fine wine.
I think Blitzen just found his forever home.
Ohhhh his mom is Mrs. Miller. Still crazy that he followed her home.
What kind of monster stops talking to their kid because they enlist? You're afraid something will happen so it's better to just cut them off completely?
Jax, right. I completely forgot about him.
Luke volunteers at a children's group home. Turns out it's where Mrs. Miller adopted him from.
Seriously, Luke? You're just going to be bullied into taking this girl you don't like and have no interest in to your hockey party?
Leslie and Primo are into each other? But she's nuts.
Sigh. Girl walks in. Sees something innocent that she warps in her head. Girl strops off.
"...and I'll be in the back, sharpening a drumstick." That's what BFFs are for.
Oh for fudge sake... boy sees something totally innocent that he warps in his head. Boy strops off.
Wait, he's going to reuse the Christmas card?
Right, Jax. What is the point of this part of the story?
I want more or Lila and Tom!
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This is essentially 4 stories in 1 but we spend way too much time on Jessica (Torrey DeVitto) and Luke (Chad Michael Murray). Jessica intends to send her boyfriend a Christmas card a day for a week to get him into the Christmas spirit but when he abruptly breaks up with her, she sends them to 5 important people in her life instead - we know 1 goes to her bother as he awaits deployment; 1 goes to the aunt that raised them; 1 goes to Jessica's teenage popstar crush, Jax; another to her best friend, Mimi; and the 5th goes to her elementary school music teacher, Mrs. Miller. It turns out, though, that Mrs. Miller is away for a year teaching in Kenya and the card is open and read by her son, Luke. At his mother's request, Luke tracks Jessica down and blah blah blah. Jessica misinterprets a moment between photographer Luke and one of his clients, and Luke, in turn, misinterprets a moment between Jessica and her ex-boyfriend.
At an Army base, Carter (Madison Smith) receives his Christmas card and it serves as an icebreaker for him to talk to another private he's been crushing on. In the end, they both receive orders to deploy to Germany.
Meanwhile, Aunt Lila (Lolita Davidovich) gets an unexpected visitor when she retrieves her mail one day, in the form of a wee dog named Blitzen. Blitzen is being temporarily looked after by Lila's dishy neighbor, Tom (Grant Show). Seriously, that man looks better now than he ever did, but I digress... Once again, HM misses the mark by not focusing more or making Lila and Tom the central couple of the movie. Both widowers, Tom explains to Lila that Blitzen's original owner can't care for him anymore so Lila offers to foster Blitzen and help Tom find the dog's "forever home". Spoiler alert: Blitzen's forever home is with Lila.
There's also another story mixed in there about Jax (Drew Seeley), a once-popular boyband star who broke up the band to go solo. Turns out he's more JC Chasez than Justin Timberlake but he did have one massively popular hit with a Christmas pop song. The song is peppered throughout parts of the movie with, predictably, the female characters loving it and the male characters groaning to turn it off. Jax and the band reunite for "one night only" at a local bar and this is where Jessica and Luke reunite.
Somehow Jax ends up playing at the orphanage Christmas party and Jessica and Luke spend Christmas with Lila and Tom.
There's also a lot of references to the whole insane moon conversation from It's A Wonderful Life.
“What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary. ”
-Jessica is clearly Christmas crazy.
Those 5 cards probably cost close to $30.
So Jessica and not-doctor Wesley have been dating for 3 months and she's already putting him on Christmas cards and her friend is talking engagement? Maybe she's crazy crazy, not just Christmas crazy.
We're 8 minutes in and we've already got a doomed relationship, unrealized cello dreams, a soldier, a broken down pop star, a good looking neighbor with a little dog, and a mystery man.
The soldier is Jessica's brother.
"I was going to say I think we should stop seeing each other" Like a normal person. He was not proposing.
Oh, she's snapped. She's giving up on dating and on holidays, mainly Christmas.
I can't imagine anyone is holding any meaningful auditions "the day before Christmas", also known as "Christmas Eve".
She's literally sitting at a table talking out loud. She claims she's running lines but I'm skeptical.
He's sat for .03 seconds and she's already asking him to take new headshots. Luke should run far away very quickly.
10 seconds later she's asking him to run lines with her. Apparently, the part is for a psycho. Why is Luke not running away yet?
Why is he opening and reading someone else's mail?
Well, Grant Show is like a fine wine.
I think Blitzen just found his forever home.
Ohhhh his mom is Mrs. Miller. Still crazy that he followed her home.
What kind of monster stops talking to their kid because they enlist? You're afraid something will happen so it's better to just cut them off completely?
Jax, right. I completely forgot about him.
Luke volunteers at a children's group home. Turns out it's where Mrs. Miller adopted him from.
Seriously, Luke? You're just going to be bullied into taking this girl you don't like and have no interest in to your hockey party?
Leslie and Primo are into each other? But she's nuts.
Sigh. Girl walks in. Sees something innocent that she warps in her head. Girl strops off.
"...and I'll be in the back, sharpening a drumstick." That's what BFFs are for.
Oh for fudge sake... boy sees something totally innocent that he warps in his head. Boy strops off.
Wait, he's going to reuse the Christmas card?
Right, Jax. What is the point of this part of the story?
I want more or Lila and Tom!
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