A home stager looking to land a promotion offers to plan the company Christmas party in order to sway the boss' decision her way.A home stager looking to land a promotion offers to plan the company Christmas party in order to sway the boss' decision her way.A home stager looking to land a promotion offers to plan the company Christmas party in order to sway the boss' decision her way.
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Karina Gale
- Stella
- (as Karina Segura)
Yesenia Davis
- School Kid
- (uncredited)
Nicole Duke
- Inn Guest
- (uncredited)
John Forker
- Coffee Shop Patron
- (uncredited)
Jade Gottfredson
- Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Craig Gregersen
- Pie Shop Patron
- (uncredited)
- …
Jerome Brad Halgren
- Christmas Tree Buyer
- (uncredited)
- …
Nikolas Mikkelsen
- Mover
- (uncredited)
- …
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- TriviaThis movie takes place in Colorado, where George Stults grew up.
- Goofs18 minutes into the movie, when Lori is learning about Maddie's dead mother, a close up shows Lori placing a hand on Maddie to console her. In the next shot Maddie is seen without anyone near her, and then the camera moves back to Lori who, presumably, still has a hand on Maddie.
- SoundtracksJingle Bells
(uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont
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Staging a not so perfect Christmas
Just to say now, in my view not all Lifetime's Christmas offerings are bad. Actually was pleasantly surprised by some, which has been true of my film viewings of Hallmark/Lifetime etc Christmas films in general over-time. Actually really liked the concept here for 'Staging Christmas', it sounded so sweet and poignant, but whether it was going to work was all going to be dependent on the likeability of the characters and two leads, their interaction and how the story would be executed.
All are executed underwhelmingly sadly here in 'Staging Christmas'. There are far worse films about and far worse Christmas films overall, but 'Staging Christmas' is not an example of a Lifetime Christmas film being surprisingly good and nearly everything that a few of my friends dislikes about Lifetime's films is present. For anybody iffy about any of previously seen Lifetime's Christmas offerings, this will do next to nothing to change your mind and might reinforce it.
'Staging Christmas' is lovingly shot and has suitably picturesque scenery. There are some pleasant moments in the soundtrack, emphasis though on some.
Mia Clark is adorable and is the film's most rootable character. The chemistry between her and George Stults has some charm.
Which is something that the two leads don't have. Stults looks stiff and unemotive and Soleil Moon Frye has the opposite problem of overacting, when the character is happy it looks so affected and too fixed. Instead of likeable, she came over as annoying. The two have no chemistry with each other and seem so distant. The pedestrian direction doesn't help them. Neither does the cliched character writing, that gives the characters like one or two character traits and not much else, or the soggy and corny script that really overdoes the sentiment to saccharine degrees.
The story sounded so charming on paper, but ended up being dull, over-sentimental and running out of ideas-like. The ending can be seen from a mile away and left me cold rather than moved. The music tends to be too constant and too loud.
In conclusion, quite lacking in most areas. 3/10
All are executed underwhelmingly sadly here in 'Staging Christmas'. There are far worse films about and far worse Christmas films overall, but 'Staging Christmas' is not an example of a Lifetime Christmas film being surprisingly good and nearly everything that a few of my friends dislikes about Lifetime's films is present. For anybody iffy about any of previously seen Lifetime's Christmas offerings, this will do next to nothing to change your mind and might reinforce it.
'Staging Christmas' is lovingly shot and has suitably picturesque scenery. There are some pleasant moments in the soundtrack, emphasis though on some.
Mia Clark is adorable and is the film's most rootable character. The chemistry between her and George Stults has some charm.
Which is something that the two leads don't have. Stults looks stiff and unemotive and Soleil Moon Frye has the opposite problem of overacting, when the character is happy it looks so affected and too fixed. Instead of likeable, she came over as annoying. The two have no chemistry with each other and seem so distant. The pedestrian direction doesn't help them. Neither does the cliched character writing, that gives the characters like one or two character traits and not much else, or the soggy and corny script that really overdoes the sentiment to saccharine degrees.
The story sounded so charming on paper, but ended up being dull, over-sentimental and running out of ideas-like. The ending can be seen from a mile away and left me cold rather than moved. The music tends to be too constant and too loud.
In conclusion, quite lacking in most areas. 3/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- Aug 17, 2020
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- Il vero spirito del Natale
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- Ogden, Utah, USA(location)
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- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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