Finally back online and able to watch Hallmark movies again!
November 12th
Blessings of Christmas A Christmas Blessing (looks like maybe a title switch??)
7pm Central/8pm Eastern
In Blessings of Christmas, renowned TV star Mandy Gilmore (Loughlin) says goodbye to her hit culinary series, A World of Food, with plans to travel the globe dining in all 142 Michelin star restaurants. Before jetting to Paris, Mandy stops in Milwaukee with the deed to her deceased aunt’s food pantry, Angel’s Fare, recently purchased by adjacent business owner, Adam Carraway (Tupper). A simple transaction. Until pantry volunteer, Otto Nessen (Hutch) reminds all that Aunt Susie’s love of cooking was truly love of feeding and inspires one more holiday feast for those who need it most. Haul out the holly! For we need a little Christmas now.
Starring Lori Loughlin, James Tupper and Jesse Hutch
A Christmas Blessing (GAF) 7/10 but my husband and I felt the movie wasn't quite as good as it could have been and he would have rated it lower than me. Reading the synopsis you would think she was jet setting away to travel the world which is what made us start watching it and I hope I'm not spoiling it but she does not do that. I just wouldn't want someone to make that misunderstanding that we did.
A Christmas Blessing has been renamed
Blessings of Christmas. It could be because there is already a couple of other movies with the same title and one got a horrendous IMDb rating of 4.5.
Anyway, this was the ODDEST "Hallmark" type movie I've ever seen. Seriously ODD. The story itself sounded great. Lori Loughlin was giving a good performance. But the two male stars were
ODD. Their acting was really weird and BAD. And their characters were written oddly. I kept watching because it was sort of like watching a train wreck. I just couldn't believe what I was watching. And I was kind of intrigued to see if it would continue that way.
I didn't recognize James Tupper at first. He had such a bad hair dye job. The color and too much face powder just made him look so pale and OLD. Way too old for Lori. And he was acting really. . . bumbling.
So, then I'm thinking Jesse Hutch must be the love interest. Except he arrives on scene acting weird and looking off into space oddly. At one time he's alone with Lori, looking off somewhere and he says, "Do you hear what I hear?"
Lori's looking around because there's nothing making a sound? Huh?
Jesse continues to say in a deadpan voice, not
sing, "Said the night wind to the little lamb." He just gave me chills for a moment, like I suddenly was watching at Lifetime movie and he turned into someone who was going to be Hannibal Lector in
Silence of the Lambs. That just put me so off him.
Jesse acted weird for so long that it took me quite a while to finally figure out what was going on.
So, then we are back to James Tupper, who then it turns out, to put it politely, um, he has a mental issue, like Tony Sholub in
Monk. And yet, he is the romantic love interest.
And I keep watching because I think this is the ODDEST "Hallmark" movie I've seen.
And ironically, all the characters are calling each other ODD too.
Anyway, I really recommend watching it for THAT!
But, in the end, it really is a good, strong story about giving, about people in need at Christmas, and community. It just could have been acted so differently.