Rating: A
Holiday in Handcuffs is a romantic comedy Christmas movie. Poor Trudie (played by Melissa Joan Hart) gets dumped right before Christmas so she can't take her boyfriend up to meet her constantly disapproving parents. Temporarily insane thanks to her mother, she ends up taking someone hostage and forces him (played by Mario Lopez) to be her date. Of course, he tries to get out of it and resist but conveniently her parents live in a very secluded mountain area making escape difficult. Add to that the fact that her family is just crazy enough and desperate enough for their daughter to have a boyfriend that they refuse to believe it when he tells them he's been kidnapped. It's not going to come as a surprise to anyone to find out that Trudie and her hostage start to fall for each other. But it's a very cute story. There's no magic element (one of my favorite parts of Christmas movies) but combining a romantic comedy with a Christmas movie is always a good idea. Plus, Melissa & Mario do well with it.
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