Poorly Acted- not at all Christmas!

I was really very disappointed with this movie since I thought it would be maybe in line with "The Waltons" or something. Not even close! The acting was really unusually bad in this- and its odd because the actors seem pretty decent in the series- a bad director, perhaps? And nothing about it seemed at all very Christmas-y. The story line was a waste. It was like any kind of Heartland episode. Grumpy neighbor guy with abused horses or something.

But I wish they had made it more like a real Christmas movie or something that had a good story in it. It wasn't. And it fell flat.