This is a holiday romance story from the Paramount Network that has some common plot elements with Hallmark and Lifetime holiday movies, so there is crossover appeal for viewers of those networks. Hallmark and Lifetime are focused on women, so a young female is always the main character in their formulaic films and a young man is her love interest. In this film there is a male who is the main character and another male is his love interest.
The script for Dashing in December is above average and the characters talk about real things. In this movie the leads are two males Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace, they both graduated from drama schools so they know how to act and there is chemistry between them. It has all the usual Hallmark elements such as being very Christmasy, gingerbread, hot cider, hot cocoa and holiday traditions and maintains the cardinal rule that lead characters kiss, but are never seen in bed together. The supporting actors Andie MacDowell and Caroline Harris are excellent. And the music throughout is wonderful.
I hope the Paramount Network gives us more films with gay couples in the near future.
Dashing in December
2020
Action / Drama
Plot summary
Having recently broken up with his latest boyfriend Lindsay, Wyatt Burwell, who works for a Manhattan investment firm, is heading home for a working Christmas holiday to his family's horse ranch nestled in the mountains of Harmony Springs, Colorado for the first time in five years. While one half of that work is for a client, the success or failure of the proposal which will determine if he will get a promotion, the other half is to convince his long widowed mother, Deb Burwell, to sell the ranch which has been bleeding money for years and which he doesn't want her to sink all her retirement savings into for what is a failing proposition, especially as she can't handle the property all her own. What Wyatt is unaware of is that since Deb's lead ranch hand Carlos Casas retired three years ago, Deb has hired Heath Ramos to work beside Wyatt's high school girlfriend Blake Berry to be her ranch hands. There is immediate friction between Wyatt and Heath in their competition partly in each believing he knows what's best for the ranch and thus Deb, which only increases when Wyatt divulges his desire for Deb to sell it. Things start to change between Wyatt and Heath not only when each discovers the other is gay, but when each begins to understand a little more about what is motivating the other: why Wyatt no longer comes home for visits and why he in particular has a particular disdain for the Christmas carriage rides provided at the ranch, and why Heath has such an attachment to the ranch beyond his current employment. If Wyatt and Heath can maintain a romantic relationship is dependent not only if they can overcome their current urban/rural divide, but if they can come up with a solution for the ranch that satisfies everyone's wants and needs, especially Deb's whose heart is still there but who may realistically not be able to maintain it logistically.
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A refreshing holiday movie
The usual stuff with a twist
1. Pro - it brings to the forefront that 'love' or 'attraction' between two people of the same gender is perfectly and absolutely normal !! And worthy of a family type story.
2. Con - the production values are unacceptable ! Using spring or summer for winter just does not work. The directors can spray tons of - whatever that white stuff is suppose to look like snow - on everything but you can't hide summer green.
Outside of the above this is a typical Xmas story.
Make the Yuletide gay
Amazing festive movie with great actors. One of those cute Christmas romances that will make your day. We really deserve to see more happy LGBT+ romace movies.