When Anna Parisi, an unemployed fine arts painter, is unable to make ends meet, she is hired to become a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an uptight corporate exec. As they begin working together, Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with the importance of the gift, while Anna discovers she might find success as an artist in a way she never expected. The best gift of all of course is the love they discover with one another.
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Cute but unlikely to happen. The movie Has all the characteristics of a typical comercial Christmas movie. It has a predictable and superficial plot but despite everything is watchable if you don't have much to do.
This would fall under the heading of stupid cute.Katrina Law and Aaron O'Connell star as Anna and Marc. Anna is a painter that is moonlighting as a personal shopper and Marc as a workaholic with no time for fun or family. Marc ends up hiring Anna to shop for his Christmas gifts at $30 an hour. Reality Check #1 - I am in the wrong line of work! Sparks fly between the two over the course of the movie, will one of them make a move? Reality Check #2 - What kind of monster eats a cupcake with a knife and fork? Both of the main characters do!! Ugh. Other than those two gaping WTF plot points the movie was enjoyable.
A fine film to watch around the holidays, with two strong leads. But something bothered me. I mean, really bothered me. I'm not hating on Donna Mills, but she played the main character's mother. The young man is in his late twenties, no older. Donna Mills is made up/lit/diffused/whatever to look thirty years old. The woman in seventy-five. Women that age should not look thirty! She looked more like the character's sister than his mother. That distracted me so much, that's pretty much all I have to say in this review. Good film. Good lead actors. But, damn. Don't make a seventy five year old woman look thirty. It took me right out of the movie.
To be completely honest with you, I think it just looks overrated and pretty much trying to keep the actors act fake as possible. It's like your typical Christmas movie that doesn't have a better outcome. I only watched thirty minutes of this movie and I was just disgusted by this really!I didn't even find it funny when it was suppose to be funny like trust me, I would've rather enjoyed it but I unfortunately didn't! I regret sewing this movie and see that it hasn't got a better storyline nor it has any good characters.I'm afraid this is one Hallmark movie to avoid folks....
