Christmas on Chestnut Street airs on Lifetime (and is actually available to watch online for a limited time). It's about a guy, Lou, who lives at home with his dad (who has dementia) and mom and works at a department store with kind of a jerky boss. The boss's daughter has come to work at the store for the holidays and she is a girl with a plan. She has her life all planned out. When an inventory mistake leaves the store with tons of extra lights, the store comes up with a promotion to sell lights by offering one free hour of shopping to whoever has the best light display on their house. So the neighborhoods go crazy with their light displays. The boss's daughter decides to help Lou win the contest so he can donate the time to charity so the store doesn't have to worry about losing money to greedy shoppers. I'm not sure why the contest only boils down to Chestnut Street (are there no other streets in the neighborhood?) but there's lots of insane light displays which is kind of fun. Of course, Lou and the boss's daughter start to fall in love somehow. It's kind of an out-of-nowhere love story but overall, the story isn't bad, the acting is bearable and I enjoyed it more than many of the year's holiday viewings so I may be rating it higher than I would in another year but I definitely would rate it slightly above average.
Rating: B
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