Too cold to go for help?!

The movie was AWFUL from beginning to end! Anne Heche was in one of the better Hallmark Christmas movies called "Silver Bells" (which isn't even on this year since it would take time away from the gotta-get-a-boyfriend-for-Christmas movies) but this was terrible, all because of one thing - it was a comedy. When will Hallmark get it into their heads that the GOOD movies, the worthwhile ones that will be remembered years from now are the ones without stupid, so-called funny plots? There are those that will think this was "cute" all based on the fact that a cute little dog was in it. Never mind that you have one guy suggesting dumping it in a yard at the beginning and another guy actually doing it (but the fact that it was in a nice gift box is supposed to lessen how bad that really is to do), and an ending that had the "cute,funny" suggestion of backyard breeding. That aside, the movie was really bad. By 9:30 I was really anxious for it to be over, the non-stop chain of bad luck events was very tiresome.

The only good part was the vignettes after the commercial breaks. And the new commercials. This WAS NOT up to Hallmark Hall of Fame standards at all!!! Very very disappointing.

The whole movie was largely brainless writing, how about her brother's fallen through the floor, can't get up, but she DOESN'T think it's an emergency to call 911? Really? What's she waiting for?

I agree, and even if your arm hurts you can still stand up. This could have been a much better movie, but the "disasters"- one after the other- were really forced and unfunny--and having the new "friends" be a multiracial mix was too convenient.
The robbery, especially, was unbelievable. The thieves just took everyone's word for it that they handed over all their cell phones, didn't even look in the car, didn't know how many people were in the car, and let everyone see their license plates. The mother made a big deal out of the boy remembering the plate number, when anyone in the car could have been writing it down, and in the time it took to give the thieves all the cell phones, one of the people in the car could have been calling 911 and reporting the robbery while in progress--just stupid writing.

It was hard to know whether this was supposed to be a comedy or a drama. Maybe falling on a sled and breaking a leg has its comic aspects, but not getting robbed at gunpoint or nearly getting burned to death in a fire.