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Jackbv123

The story is thin. It is about a single mom angry with her dad because he wasn't around when she was young. Erin holds onto this hurt much harder than the movie ever explains adequately. She does say something about looking at her dad having a good time with her daughters and it makes her jealous, but that doesn't come until after she has chilled her dad out to about negative 10,000 degrees for much of the movie. This woman is bitter. It's even stranger because Stephanie Bennett is upbeat with everyone else and seems pleasant most of the rest of the time.

The movie attempts to use the two cute little girls and a whole lot of fun activities to pull the audience in and fill the allotted time. But it feels like a formula or crammed in.

Bennett and Marco Grazzini have no chemistry that I can see. Erin seems like she is constantly escaping the rest of the family to spend time with Mateo. A lot of the situations seemed forced rather than natural. For example,, the restaurant assistant is on a mission to put the two together, even before she knows Erin.

The Christmas setting makes it easy to allow some talk about God and the real reason for the season without pushing it too much. Forgiveness is an obvious theme for the movie.

A couple of things happen abruptly at the end, almost out of nowhere.

OK, so the movie wasn't filmed in Texas. Many movies film on a lot rather than location.

score 3/10

Jackbv123 16 December 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6369853/