Heart of the Holidays

Heart Of The Holidays (2020) -

I've said it before and I will say it again, Vanessa Lengies has come a long way since 'Glee' (2009-15). I would usually only watch a film if I liked the guy in it, but I'm not Corey Sevier's biggest fan. As a result, I only stuck with this one for Vanessa, in the role of Sam.

Sadly Corey, playing Noah, while at least bearable to watch, wasn't a character that I could care about. He always plays such wet and moody guys and Noah was no exception to that rule. He gave off the impression that he was the only person that's ever been hurt and that his life had been so hard and that he might cry at any moment.

I actually thought that he would have been better off with the character of Marina (Tina Jung), because I didn't feel that he had rekindled his connection with Sam enough and their romance wasn't that real. It might have been interesting for the leading pair to realise that what they had was in the past and actually they have since grown to fit with other people.

Sam would have been better with Will (René Escobar Jr) and not just because he was hotter, which he undoubtedly was, but because he had more going on for himself. I actually thought that she was a bit unfair to him.

Although I didn't really buy the relationship, I did like the foodbank message and what Sam helped them achieve to improve it. It's a shame that people don't remember foodbank's all year around though. After all, as Julie Andrews said "It's not the things you do at Christmas, but the Christmas things you do all year through." It's important that we do what we can for others to keep the "Chains we forge in life"* short at the very least.

It wasn't the worst film that I've ever seen and I would watch it again, but I wouldn't rush.

5.5/10

*Paraphrased quote from 'A Christmas Carol'.