The Cheesy Endurance of the Made-for-TV Holiday Movie
The Hallmark Christmas flick has become a genre in itself—one that insists, against all odds, on the inevitability of the happy ending.
by Megan Garber
Dec 19, 2018
4 minutes
Here is the plot of the 2018 Lifetime film A Very Nutty Christmas, as summarized by the network that airs it:
Hard-working bakery owner Kate Holiday (Melissa Joan Hart), has more cookie orders than she has time to fill this holiday season, and when her boyfriend suddenly breaks up with her, any shred of Christmas joy she was hanging onto, immediately disappears. After Kate hangs the last ornament on the tree and goes to bed, she awakens the next morning to a little bit of Christmas magic. She gets the surprise of her life when Chip (Barry Watson), a handsome soldier who may or may not be the Nutcracker Prince from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, appears in her living room.
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