Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

roniekononova I don't know how I feel about this movie, it did leave me sobbing and blowing my nose into tissues at the ending (But I am very sensitive when it comes to movies so there is that too) but overall it was good. I agree with saying that some of the story lines and certain moments in the movie was predictable or at least made me wonder but for me personally I did not see the ending at all ( But I also was, still am sick with the flu and clicked on the first thing I saw without reading what it was about, so being sick could also contribute to my lack of judgment) I was left completely heartbroken, angry and so sad after I watched it, but the feelings has subsided and I can think of it rationally. Overall the movie was great, beautiful story line although a little of the top with some of the events that happened. I loved the The scenery, reminded me so much of the mountains here at home, and the acting was okay overall. My biggest disappointment after it was all done and the credits rolled through was the unanswered questions and the discrepancies in the movie that were left unanswered and unexplained. Other then that it was an okay soul-crushing movie so if you want to watch something cheerful and cheesy, funny and happy, I personally would steer clear of this movie. (It left me bawling my eyes out, but again I am sensitive and very sick with the Flu, but I myself would not want to watch it again. It was a little too long for my taste but it's not really a movie I would want to experiences again either)

islandstace I'm a die-hard, bleeding heart, gullible sucker for the entire season of Christmas movies. But this one? This one made me take the time to sign into IMDb (hardly ever do), in case "telling my story can save one other person from making the same mistake I did".Do yourself a favor, and I dislike being so negative and mean spirited towards those who made this film, but give this one a pass. Even the Folgers Coffee shots in that insipid Mariah Carey Christmas movie can't hold a candle to this vapid production. So many obvious errors/goofs, so corny, so bad... On a positive note, the actor who plays Joe is handsome and sexy.

Nick Carney I really enjoy Christmas tales and even enjoy some of them when they get a bit gloopy but in my opinion through the entire movie I failed to be moved in any sympathetic way whatsoever towards the Montgomery parents (Kristy Swanson and Chris Potter) and thought that her character was blubby to say the least when she should have taken hold of the situation just as a mum for the sake of the kids and he came over as a guy that was selfish to the extreme and showed his children no emotion whatsoever. Then the Tucker family turned up at the door to the cottage with their entourage of kids and they were allowed entry as total strangers through the door with no questions asked as to who they were or what they were doing. It got better when pa Montgomery went out to the car in the middle of a raging storm and got hit by a tree. I thought he'd gone to the car to try and charge his cell phone but it turned out to be otherwise. I'm not going to put any spoilers in as seeing this movie is beyond belief to the extreme and you have to watch it for yourselves but I suspect that the ending was thrown in as an afterthought to cut it all off abruptly and stop any further money being spent on filming. I could go on for ages because I really enjoy movies of all genres but this was dross even for a TV Movie and bore no relationship to real life behaviour in my life experience

breezyjane I enjoyed the movie somewhat but it was very predictable and I figured out the plot and ending in the first 20 mins. Curiosity kept me going throughout the movie to see if I was right, however I kept wanting to fast forward to the end rather than finish watching the movie.. The little girl was cute and the storyline was okay. I would have liked to see a few more unforeseen twists and less cheese. A bit childish and naive but the story is through the eyes of the little girl so that might be the what they were going for. Overall, I could have skipped this movie and never really missed out on anything. The ending was exactly what I thought it would be. The parents marriage didn't seem real. But I could relate with the family taking in strangers in order to keep from dealing with their own family issues. Strangers are a good distraction.