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Same as 'Moonlight and Mistletoe' -SPOILERS

posted 10 years ago by angeram8
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Some points in the movies that are similar:
-stars Candace Cameron Bure
-she plays a career woman who isn't that 'into Christmas'
-she is supposed to save a Christmas hotel business from corporate greed
-her mother died a while back, her father hardened his heart because of it, and in trying to hide the pain of that loss, has distanced himself from his daughter
-she falls in love with a young handsome guy who works at the Christmas hotel business location in danger of corporate greed
-both movies play the same version of 'jingle bells' as she and handsome guy flirt and fall in love and help save the business together
-father dresses up as Santa Claus
-handsome guy's creativity and ideas saves the business
-she gets to run the business alongside handsome guy at the end
-same exact kissing scenes, although Candace has more chemistry with guy in 'Let it Snow'
-her speech to her dad during her report is the same thing she says in 'Moonlight' as she mentions how parents will want to bring their children to snow valley to experience real Christmas traditions
-tree lighting ceremony!

I'm sure there are more, can you think of any? I just wonder why Candace did two movies that are basically the same movie, besides getting a paycheck.

[–] Larry-R 10 years ago

Lead character isn't into Christmas.
Lead character undergoes personal growth leading to an appreciation of Christmas.
Lead character has to choose between a mate with love and one without.
Lead character has experienced emotional loss which created friction in a relationship which is resolved by Christmas.
Something is threatened by evil and Lead Character helps save it.

To me something like these are in every just about Christmas movie.

Kissing scenes, songs played, tree lighting ceremony, dressing as Santa... those seem pretty inconsequential to me.

To me Moonlight and Mistletoe and Let it Snow are not fundamentally much more similar than they both are to All She Wants for Christmas, or even Santa Baby.

Here's a fresh movie idea. A girl works in the big city and is planning to marry her jet-setter boyfriend. But something forces her to move temporarily (she hopes) to a farm, where she has to do menial labor and be around a bunch of hicks. But she soon comes to appreciate the simple life and beautiful countryside, and meets a loving and sincere man. She realizes her old life was not that great, and her old boyfriend was a jerk. She stays on the farm and marries the man she met there.

[–] angeram8 9 years ago

I have been wanting someone to make a Christmas movie that takes place on a farm, just like your idea. Have you seen 'A Christmas Romance'? It takes place in the mountains, in a cabin-like house, very Christmasy. Great movie. It's kind of like your idea, but with the guy being the big city worker getting caught in a snowstorm at a woman's house in the mountains.

[–] bunny3k 8 years ago

It's the same as a LOT of other plots, going back as far as Shakespeare and before. There are not that many original plot lines left in the world. People don't watch Hallmark Christmas movies for edgy - we watch them because they are nice, have kind values, are entertaining (usually) and get us in the mood for the Christmas holidays. They are lovely to watch while addressing Christmas cards or making lists or are otherwise occupied with our life. There are ones I try to watch every year because they are just nice and we all need that sometimes.

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[–] pbenen 8 years ago

Well said. Completely agree.

[–] bunny3k 8 years ago

All true. It's different, though, in that -

The son wants to make some changes at the lodge to modernize, as in snowmobiles, and in ML&MT (Moonlight & Mistletoe) the daughter wants to make it just like when they were kids.

In ML&MT, the daughter is sidetracked from the main love interest by a different man; this one doesn't have that character. While strictly speaking, the interloper guy serves the same function as the father in this one, there still is a difference in the romantic story arc.

It's different because the main male and female knew each other when they were younger, here they are just meeting.

There are other points as well, but these are just the few differences that came to mind.

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