Rating: A-
I really liked The Road to Christmas. It almost makes me want to go back and make the grade for A Christmas Wedding even lower because they both have really similar plotlines, yet I enjoyed this one so much more. It's kind of bizarre that they both debuted on Lifetime at around the same time.
Anyway, this again is a story of a kind of workaholic woman (played by Jennifer Grey!) who plans to marry at Christmastime. She decides to leave town early and surprise her Italian fiance, who is apparently making all the wedding arrangements in Aspen. Of course, transportation problems ensue and she can't just take a plane or rent a car. She ends up hitching a ride with a man and his daughter, who are both still a little messed up about the loss of their wife/mom quite a few years before and are lacking a real female presence in their lives. Of course, although there is some early tension between Jennifer's character and Tom, the main male character (played by Clark Gregg, Jennifer's real-life husband), the two soon find themselves growing attracted to each other. Despite fighting it and thanks to Jennifer's cheating fiance (which is expected but also somewhat unexpected!), everything ends happily ever after, of course.
Overall, it was just a cute love story for the holidays. The only downfall to the film was that the daughter, who is supposedly 13 years old, looks much older than 13. Upon further IMDB investigation, she is 20 years old! 20 years old playing a 13 year old? Give me a break! They couldn't have made her just a few years older or found an actress that was younger? That was too distracting to me to give the movie a solid 'A'.
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