A Star-Crossed Christmas

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Coincidentally, not knowing their family origins, Rick and Julie meet, several times and, after a few brisk and amusing sparks between them, begin falling in love. At the risk of ruining the predicable happy ending — Rick and Julie, our Star-Crossed lovers cheat fate and in a Christmas Cliché epilogue enjoy a totally seasonally appropriate outdoor Christmas wedding a year later.

A Star-Crossed Christmas becomes the comedy Romeo and Juliet was destined to be before Mercutio dies.I was looking forward to a light-hearted, fun movie to get me in the holiday Spirit, especially after all those Halloween slasher movies. The only characters I enjoyed (apart from the soldier because we respect the troops) were side characters Bear and Holly, who’ve been having a secret inter-feud triste of their own for months without making such a meal of it.

Happily, all of this is resolved, partly because Holly discovers some old photos from when Dave and James and Julie's mother before she married, and Martha were all happy friends together; and partly because Julie explores some of her mother's boxes of belongings, discovers the family's misplaced Christmas-tree topper - a large crystal star - and three letters written on her deathbed by Julie's mother - one to Julie, another to her husband, James, and a third to Dave Spruce. Yes, it is the old boy meets girl, they fall in love with each other (quickly) and then find out who each other are and their family have a feud with each other BUT it is done in such a nice NOT cheesy way (OK, maybe slightly cheesy Lol) that you actually like and enjoy the film and it is actually quite funny also. the feud between the Pines and their neighbours (and rival Christmas Tree farmers) the Spruces is stronger than ever.

Julie prepares the drink, putting a small sprig of pine needles in each mug, and pouring in about two inches of boiling water. It doesn't take long to find out the feud is still going strong and appears to have gotten a little harsher in the time she's been away. His first Christmas without his wife and childhood sweetheart set to be scuppered by a missing family heirloom — the star for the top of the tree. There is a chemistry between them right from the start and Rick decides to chase her with the intention of courtship. Once you get over the corny family names, Pine and Spruce, and forget the cheesy nickname "Bear" for a big burly smiling tub of a man (maybe not such a bad nickname after all), and accept that the story of ridiculously feuding families and thwarted star-crossed lovers is a happier variant on Romeo and Juliet, this is a good film.

It naturally centres on "Christmas", because of the seasonal setting of the rival Christmas tree farms, but not for what Christmas is really about, such as, the Nativity, and/or Santa Claus.So much so, the Julie's dad says to her at one point "I thought I had raised a daughter who understood the values that this family holds. The family surnames are really hokey (the Spruces and the Pines) and much like the Hatfields and McCoys who owned adjoining farms, so do the Spruces and the Pines whose livelihood depends on the Christmas season when their Christmas trees bring in the majority of their annual income.

The acting fares decently, with a likeable John McGregor giving the best performance with charming, feisty Sarah Fischer close behind. But only the two grumpy old men know what the feud was about, and each of them angrily refuses to discuss it.Summary [ ] This page about a Christmas special or an episode from a television series with a Christmas theme is in need of a longer synopsis. But all is not cookies and cocoa in this sleepy backwater — with the recent death of Julie’s mother (what is it with Shakespeare and missing mothers? So much of the dialogue is contrived, obviously designed to give details about the characters without developing the plot.