Like Watching a TV Commercial

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Coming across like a never ending Christmas infomercial, "A Welcome Home for Christmas" is a corporate banal mess with TV commercial cinematography. The characters in full professional makeup the entire movie combined with the TV commercial dialog makes this movie utterly dull and disinteresting.

The female lead (Jana Kramer) is way too pretty and refined to be believable in her role, especially with her high heels and all, much less as a combat military veteran. Speaking of the army, the main characters use many military terms throughout the movie like 'operation' and 'mission accomplished' and 'oh six hundred' but in reality nobody in the military actually talks like this when they become discharged civilians. Finally, "the general" aka the sister's "commanding officer" has a haircut and mustache that are utterly out of army regulation.

The non-existent plot is more or less a bunch of somewhat related Christmas scenes. Putting together a toy drive can only be so exciting after two hours (well, I think there was only like 1 hour of actual movie given the frequent and lengthy commercial breaks). Multiple client/teacher ethics violations.

I think I liked the obnoxious mom who owns the coffee shop the best. She gets her cocoa beans directly from Ecuador. Note sure that is legal but it sounds bad#$%.

If you are looking for a way to distract yourself from the post election stress, this is NOT it.

score 1/10

cammietime 14 November 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6271466/