The SECOND installment of festive films, moving on to the best cheesy TV movies I love to watch at Christmas time.
This is a relatively new love, probably only getting into full swing last Christmas (*cue singing* Laaaast Christmas..." Anyone else? No? Just me then.) when, being my first year at uni, it was also my first year with a four-week Christmas holiday. And as a result, many days cosied up wrapping Christmas presents by candlelight with a Christmas film on the background. Now, because I was wrapping presents, I just wanted a cheery predictable little movie, so if I missed any bits it didn't matter too much and just listening would enough to follow the story. Turns out, made-for-TV movies are a treasure trove for these traits. (...Check out that alliteration.)
DISCLAIMER: I know all these films are suuuuuper-cheesy and critically terrible, but they give me warm fuzzies.
The Christmas Kiss
This is what cemented my slight obsession with this genre (genre?). I'm not sure if it's the heady mixutre of romance and twinkly lights and festive cheer - as with all of these films - but it's a special one to me. Also, the main actress Laura Breckenbridge was in a few episodes of Gossip Girl which made me do that little inner cheer you do when you recognise someone in a TV show or film (Just me again? Great.) Also the interior design aspect and the storytelling element please me.
The Christmas Secret
HI HALEY FROM ONE TREE HILL I'VE MISSED YOU.
This film is about a single mum trying to make ends meet so Christmas can be magical for her two kids. In a glee-inducing case of mistaken identity, Christine and love-interest Jason meet each other and narrowly miss each other several times in ways that will have you shouting out your screen for them to get together! There's an overarching family story that weaves its way in and out, beautifully tying all the elements together in an ending that brought a little tear to my eye.
Single Santa Seeks Mrs Claus
So the actor who stars in this, as Santa's son Nick, was in the guy in Short Circuit - anyone else love this brilliant film?! Anyway, Christmas films. Nick has to find a wife before he can succeed his father on the North Pole throne/armchair. The bumbling, heart-warming, sensitive Nick is so so sweet, full of that pure Christmas spirit I wish more people were appreciative of. The lucky woman in question is a Christmas cynic, so you can imagine the transformative outcome of the film. Another happy-tear-jerker to add to the list!
A Royal Christmas
Okay, so, a frequent visitor to Hallmark TV movies is Lacey Chabert; you might remember her as this girl:
Gretchen Weiners!
She is in a whole bunch of these films, nearly one or two a year, and this was Christmas 2014's offering. She's a "lowly commoner" (dress designer from Philadelphia) whose boyfriend's mother doesn't approve. But. Her boyfriend is a prince! It's veeerrrry Princess Diaries but I bloomin' love those films too so I don't care haha. Eventually predictable but with twists along the way, and featuring the delectable Jane Seymour as the icy Queen Isabella to boot!
Matchmaker Santa
I'm literally watching this film right now, and I'm nearly at the end. Another Lacey Chabert, but in this one she's a baker who goes home with her boyfriend to meet his mother BUT sort of PLOT TWIST: she gets derailed on her journey and stuck with his much more lovely assistant in a cookie-cutter Christmas town with Santa himself bringing her much closer to true love. I've quite enjoyed this one to be honest, bit out-of-the-box, or as much as it can be with these films.
I hope you've enjoyed my rundown of cheesy Christmas TV movies - are there any you've seen, or want to watch? What films are your guilty pleasure in the holidays?
RK.
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