Christmas at the Holly Hotel

I watched with friends, and we howled with laughter at the acting and stilted script. I treasure finding movies that sincerely try so hard to hit the mark but just never can get any scene right - they have me in stitches. I realize that it was written, directed and produced by one guy, and probably on a shoestring budget, but it does make you appreciate the effort that goes into an actual Hallmark movie as opposed to a knockoff; the way they layer in music to help with scene transitions, the sound quality, the line readings, etc. The good thing is that there are so many bad things about this movie, no one person has to carry the blame for it not working. The actors can blame the script, the director can blame the producer, the writer can blame the director. Um, maybe you can blame one guy after all.

Tragically, the actual Holly Hotel it was filmed at was burned down six months after the movie was filmed there (but they are rebuilding).