Rating: B
Silver Bells, which originally aired in 2005, stars Anne Heche and Tate Donovan, which forces me to give it some props. Anytime a Christmas movie can cast actors that you actually know, it means that there is a little more credibility there. Unfortunately, I found this one really boring. At the center of the story is Tate's teenaged son who is forced every Christmas to sell Christmas trees with his family on the streets of Manhattan. He really wants to be a photographer, though, and gets to know Anne Heche, the manager of a local art gallery. One Christmas he runs away from his dad, who searches frantically for him for the next year. Meanwhile, Anne Heche keeps in touch with the son and even shows some of his photographs at the gallery. But she doesn't tell the father until about the time they share a kiss. Then she starts to feel guilty. The son tries to stay away from the father but eventually, everything works out and everyone lives happily ever after. The overall story was okay and admittingly a little different than many of the other holiday stories but I was bored and didn't really feel a connection to any of the characters. I didn't understand why the son had to run away; I didn't understand why the father was kind of a jerk; I didn't understand why Anne's character wouldn't tell that she'd heard from the son.... so many things I couldn't relate to.
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