Why do so many of these supposedly romantic Christmas films feature a person who is engaged falling in love with someone who is not their fiancé? How is that festive? Even if their fiancé is not right for them, it's not a good or romantic thing to do.

Not good not bad but pleasantly better than you would think from the description. The lead guy who looks and speaks like Alistair Cook is very good in the role, very likeable and is given a decent script. The lead females each have a few irritating traits and the young boy, daft name aside is good too

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This movie is very sweet, and starts and continues with solid acting by most all involved. Ashley Jones does a really nice job as a struggling but caring mom and the male lead who plays Baxter is really good, but his character is really a pushover.

First, he spends time with this other family, starting to emotionally connect to both the son and the mom, without telling his fiance where he's spending time. You can tell that he's ready for his relationship and engagement to end but time after time, fails to break things off. Even when he is inclined to almost kiss another woman, he's still not the one to break things off when his fiance acts so selfishly about his good deeds. I hesitate to believe he would have ever been the one to stand up for himself.

Secondly, the son Weston is old enough to know right from wrong and know when Baxter is buying things for people and the kid blackmails him in a "cute family movie way" to continue buying for them in different ways or else he'll tell Baxter's secret. I think Weston would be old enough to know that you shouldn't be accepting someone else's money so much.

For an UP channel movie and something supposedly family oriented, I find a few major flaws with the morality of Baxter spending so much time with Pam and Weston and it ends up being something that most adults will know wouldn't go over well in real life.

The message of giving is really very sweet and the innocence of what Baxter is trying to do is something refreshing to watch and to try to apply to your own life. So for that I'm giving it 5 stars.