After many Hallmark Christmas films, this seems so...different. Sure, the recipe is the same, the ingredients are the usually ones but you feel and know and it is so obvious than it is not what you expect. Virtues are many, from inspired storytelling to performances and challenges for the young couple but the good point is the useful dose of realism. It is not exactly a fairy tale or the story from the dolls house. It is a film about family and love and happiness but the relation between Patricia and her daughter - in - law, the lost of job for conscience problem, the different parents of the couple, the misterious DVD "who you must see", the humor and the dialogues are a bit realistic. Each of them, all does it a special, real special Hallmark Christmas film. And that is, maybe, more than a beautiful virtue.
Review of A Perfect Christmas
