![]() ![]() What the movie needs is a secondary plot, say trying to save a failing business, to liven things up though. Her sister has convinced Celia that reality is not a bad place to inhabit, and that neither a fictional man of letters nor a roving children’s author live there. ![]() This crinkle is complicated by Celia’s sometime date and potato gun enthusiast, Randy (Brady Smith). Jake meets Lilly at a reading and then her mother but keeps his identity secret from both of them. The epistolary romance is the only storyline though, and tedium sets in after awhile. It’s not Jane Austen poetry or romance, but it’s also not your common Christmas Cookies exchange either. My mind has been so dulled by the pedestrian dialogue of Hallmark movies that the merest hints of more textured language are enough to seduce me. Between responding to numbing requests for the hottest toy and the nagging of two well-meaning old ladies, Jake finds an intellectual and emotional outlet in this new correspondence.Īnd what poetic missives they pen to one another. His thoughtful reply to Lilly’s prompts a similar thank you from Celia, and a relationship via post develops. The letter winds up in the hands of children’s author Jake (Mike Faiola), who has taken up a $12 an hour job as pen pal Santa while he tries to overcome writer’s block and a recent divorce. Not even the charms of Thanksgiving and Christmas are enough to spark joy in Celia, so Lilly writes a letter to Santa and asks him to bring back some cheer in her mother’s life. (Somebody get me a mug that says “The Old Man and the Tea”.) Celia’s precocious daughter, Lilly (Isadora Swann), observes that her mom’s been out of it lately, you know, since her husband’s died. She delivers an earthy performance as young widow Celia, who owns a Hemingway themed bakery, The Bun Also Rises – and yes, there are some choice food puns. Moreau, who will always be Mighty Duck Connie to me, certainly makes it worthwhile. Maybe you don’t want to watch Shop or its descendants, In the Good Old Summer Time and You’ve Got Mail, because the Hallmark Channel makes better white noise than Turner Classic Movies. That’s not to say you should skip this movie entirely. Borrowing elements from The Shop Around the Corner and its derivatives, Love Always, Santa gets a gold star for Marguerite Moreau’s lived-in performance, a definite cut above your standard Lacey Chabert or Candace Cameron Bure outing, but it fails to make something more out of a story about pen pals who unexpectedly meet. The download will open in a separate tab.Even the better Hallmark movies are rip-offs of movies you’ve already seen, because this is just the world we live in. To download the comic to your device go to the blue bar above the comic and click on the white arrow that is pointing down. To zoom in on the comic either (a) in the blue bar located above the comic, drag the scale to the right until you’re satisfied, or (b) click on the image for a preset zoom option. That’s why we’re asking you to support Gilda’s Club Twin Cities by making a donation today.” -Monte To read the Swann’s full story see the comic below. “It’s a safe place to feel welcome, to make art, to deal with our problems without expectations on what we had to do or be. At Gilda’s Club all members of the family can get involved: Isadora is able to attend support groups with people who understand what she’s going through, Monte has access to the resources he needs as a parent with a child living with cancer, Arlo attends expressive arts and improv classes, and the whole family is able to spend time together.
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