12 Gifts of Christmas (2015)
When Anna Parisi, an unemployed fine arts painter, is unable to make ends meet, she is hired to become a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an uptight corporate exec. As they begin working together, Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with the importance of the gift, while Anna discovers she might find success as an artist in a way she never expected. The best gift of all of course is the love they discover with one another.
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Cute but unlikely to happen. The movie Has all the characteristics of a typical comercial Christmas movie. It has a predictable and superficial plot but despite everything is watchable if you don't have much to do.
A fine film to watch around the holidays, with two strong leads. But something bothered me. I mean, really bothered me. I'm not hating on Donna Mills, but she played the main character's mother. The young man is in his late twenties, no older. Donna Mills is made up/lit/diffused/whatever to look thirty years old. The woman in seventy-five. Women that age should not look thirty! She looked more like the character's sister than his mother. That distracted me so much, that's pretty much all I have to say in this review. Good film. Good lead actors. But, damn. Don't make a seventy five year old woman look thirty. It took me right out of the movie.
To be completely honest with you, I think it just looks overrated and pretty much trying to keep the actors act fake as possible. It's like your typical Christmas movie that doesn't have a better outcome. I only watched thirty minutes of this movie and I was just disgusted by this really!I didn't even find it funny when it was suppose to be funny like trust me, I would've rather enjoyed it but I unfortunately didn't! I regret sewing this movie and see that it hasn't got a better storyline nor it has any good characters.I'm afraid this is one Hallmark movie to avoid folks....
This year's Hallmark Christmas comedy romance is better than the average one and worth a watch. A struggling artist (Katrina Law) becomes a personal shopper as Christmas approaches. Her first client is an driven ad exec and of course romance ensues.The cast is likable and attractive. Katrina Law plays the artist turned personal shopper. For those who watch 'Arrow' where she plays a fierce warrior woman with a pseudo British accent, this role is a complete 180 and she shows she is versatile and can play the cute romantic lead. She makes a believable looking couple with Aaron O'Connell as the ad exec who works too hard. Donna Mills plays his mother and she looks amazingly young still.There is an obligatory drama just before the romance comes together about her 'art' which makes one ask what's the fuss about.Some Hallmark Christmas movies are too cutesy and the lead actors can be annoying but this one isn't one of them.