The title is a Pig in a Poke, as a real oldtimer Texan might say.

ron_smith-89134

My mama always said. "Ronnie, if you can't say something good about something, don't say anything at all."
I'm sorry Mama, but the setting for Lonestar Christmas is so ignorantly chosen that I was appalled from the get-go.
This movie was filmed in Vancouver! That is roughly 1,700 miles north of our far north Texas city of Amarillo! Check it out.
I have lived for 71 years in Texas, born in West Texas, educated in Houston and Austin. Nothing about the setting in this Lifetime movie looked or felt like Texas to me. Too wet. Too green. Heck, even the tamale restaurant was named Verdosa, "really green."
Even though the male love interest was Mexican ("half Filipino") and called the Tamale King, that character did not make this British Columbia filming location remotely resemble any part of the Texas I know.
I just can't believe that anybody with common sense would try to pawn this movie off as having anything to do with Texas just by tagging it with Lonestar in the title.
The title is fraudulent.
That said, I give kudos to the script elements in the last two scenes.

score 3/10

ron_smith-89134 15 December 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6367588/