A Christmas Star
- TV Movie
- 2021
- 1h 24m
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An astronomer predicts that a new meteor shower will appear over a tiny town. Can she convince the locals to help with her discovery at the expense of a Christmas tradition?An astronomer predicts that a new meteor shower will appear over a tiny town. Can she convince the locals to help with her discovery at the expense of a Christmas tradition?An astronomer predicts that a new meteor shower will appear over a tiny town. Can she convince the locals to help with her discovery at the expense of a Christmas tradition?
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Up and coming female astronomer in New York crunches data and figures out there is a 78% likelihood a yet undiscovered meteor shower event will take place on one of five days leading up to Christmas. And the prime viewing location is a peak just outside a small upstate community. So she gets clearance and takes a telescope with her to the location. (All filmed in Canada.)
Once there she finds a mixup with hotel reservations and is aided by a local family that own and run the hotel, she is put up and befriended by all of them, including a nice man who has been told his ranger job is being eliminated for lack of funding. As things unfold and complications with the Christmas festival and its bright lights make things a bigger challenge, the astronomer and the ranger begin to take a serious liking to each other.
My wife and I watched it at home on Amazon streaming. It is a cute story with attractive people, very much like a Hallmark movie. Just don't take any of the highly flawed astronomy seriously. Plus, they even got "reflector" and "refractor" telescopes mixed up in the dialog. But hey, it's just a movie.
Once there she finds a mixup with hotel reservations and is aided by a local family that own and run the hotel, she is put up and befriended by all of them, including a nice man who has been told his ranger job is being eliminated for lack of funding. As things unfold and complications with the Christmas festival and its bright lights make things a bigger challenge, the astronomer and the ranger begin to take a serious liking to each other.
My wife and I watched it at home on Amazon streaming. It is a cute story with attractive people, very much like a Hallmark movie. Just don't take any of the highly flawed astronomy seriously. Plus, they even got "reflector" and "refractor" telescopes mixed up in the dialog. But hey, it's just a movie.
The writers could have made this a better story with better word-smithing. The chemistry between the 2 main characters is also a bit weak. No believable spark.
My astronomy-loving husband and I both LOVED this movie. It focused on the relationship between the characters and not just a superficial "romance." It also showed realistic problem-solving involving the differences in the characters lives. My favorite 2021 GAC Christmas movie!
An interesting topic but the script is weak. Sara Canning was miscast, she overacts. Daniel Lissing is good, believable as a county ranger. The rest of the cast are ok. The story got dumb towards the end. Nice location.
This is mostly an unusual story, although there is the ever-present Christmas Festival. Sara Canning and Daniel Lissing have good chemistry. The overall acting is mostly fair.
The climax is too sappy, even cheesy, a little too much for me and I like sappy.
From a technical standpoint regarding Astronomy, I give this movie tons of credit because one of the running themes through the movie is light pollution. Other technical aspects were very mixed.
The climax is too sappy, even cheesy, a little too much for me and I like sappy.
From a technical standpoint regarding Astronomy, I give this movie tons of credit because one of the running themes through the movie is light pollution. Other technical aspects were very mixed.
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