In this Christmas time romantic comedy, Caroline is unhappy in her marriage and makes her way to file for divorce. On the way, she is in an accident and she sees her love life differently, a... Read allIn this Christmas time romantic comedy, Caroline is unhappy in her marriage and makes her way to file for divorce. On the way, she is in an accident and she sees her love life differently, as amnesia is now setting in.In this Christmas time romantic comedy, Caroline is unhappy in her marriage and makes her way to file for divorce. On the way, she is in an accident and she sees her love life differently, as amnesia is now setting in.
J.C. Holloway
- Tall Bartenderas Tall Bartender
- (as James Holloway)
Danny Conlin
- Diner Patronas Diner Patron
- (uncredited)
On her way to drop off divorce papers, overworked event planner Caroline gets hit by a car and wakes up without any memory. She can't recall who she is and doesn't recognize the handsome face belonging to her nearly-ex-husband, Jack. Motivated by the opportunity to start fresh, Jack along with Caroline's overbearing mother, Peggy, take advantage of Caroline's memory loss to correct her flaws and erase their past mistakes. Jack is determined to make his wife fall in love with him again and save his marriage before it's too late. But will Caroline's memory come back and ruin his plan? —Happy_Evil_Dude
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Not a Christmas Movie. And not a "good" movie.
There are multiple "Second Chance Christmas" titles. This one focuses around Caroline, an (initially) disgruntled over-achiever, Jack, her somewhat-slacker husband, and amnesia.
To avoid any spoilers, that's all you get of the plot. But all you need to know is... there are these two protagonists and five secondary characters... an assistant, two best friends (his) and two parents (hers.) Of these, all but two of the secondary characters pretty much lie the whole time. Caroline is the main character, supposed to be the one you're sympathetic towards, and she starts the movie off with forgery, a felony. (Even though he signed, it's still forgery if she mislead as to what he was signing.)
Christmas isn't actually relevant to the movie. It's barely a minor player. If there were "Groundhog Day Parties", this could easily have been "Second Chance Groundhog".
Despite all this, the movie is more about abandonment (or feelings there-of) than deception. This really screams "Ho ho ho!", doesn't it?
Even at the very end of the movie, mercifully less than 100 minutes in, we learn they're still keeping secrets from each-other. And, in a continued break from reality, they celebrate the suddenly-unveiled news rather than distrusting the deception... even though she mentions it.
There are worse movies. But this is pretty bad.
To avoid any spoilers, that's all you get of the plot. But all you need to know is... there are these two protagonists and five secondary characters... an assistant, two best friends (his) and two parents (hers.) Of these, all but two of the secondary characters pretty much lie the whole time. Caroline is the main character, supposed to be the one you're sympathetic towards, and she starts the movie off with forgery, a felony. (Even though he signed, it's still forgery if she mislead as to what he was signing.)
Christmas isn't actually relevant to the movie. It's barely a minor player. If there were "Groundhog Day Parties", this could easily have been "Second Chance Groundhog".
Despite all this, the movie is more about abandonment (or feelings there-of) than deception. This really screams "Ho ho ho!", doesn't it?
Even at the very end of the movie, mercifully less than 100 minutes in, we learn they're still keeping secrets from each-other. And, in a continued break from reality, they celebrate the suddenly-unveiled news rather than distrusting the deception... even though she mentions it.
There are worse movies. But this is pretty bad.
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- Oct 27, 2019
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