Alice (Alicia Witt) hesitates before accepting her boyfriend Will's public marriage proposal. He convinces her to surprise his parents at the family Christmas gathering. She is traveling alone to the gathering but issues keep popping up. Alice and Will's brother end up in a car accident.

The proposal is awkward as heck which is exactly what it should be. Will's turn is unexpected. I didn't expect real evilness from a Hallmark movie but this one brings it. I do wonder if the movie should slow-roll the evil plan. Despite the extra drama, it's still Hallmark. Nothing's unexpected. It is what it is.

This film lost me very early with Alicia Witt's characters painfully long and cheesy monologue, and never really recovered.

Fine if you're in the mood, but not one of the best Hallmark films.

There's no orange-colored sky, but Alicia Witt is a cute, giggly carrot-top in this one. Her meet cute with Mark Wiebe is they get into a traffic accident. She's been sent on alone by his brother, her fiancé, to meet his folks and spend Christmas with his family; Alicia and Mark meet at the airport and he gives her a lift to their house... but it's the wrong family. Her fiancé has the same name.

It's a cute set-up and very charming, although the contrast between the two families, played for comic effect, is handled like a sledge hammer. In addition, her fiancé is intent on making a lot of money by having her sell her beloved antique shop on 23rd Street -- although it fronts in Soho, several miles and four neighborhoods away -- to a real estate developer for a lot of money.

Well, no one ever claimed that the scripts for Hallmark seasonal romantic comedies were subtle. There are a couple of laughs along the way. If it's not great, it's all handled competently.