Movie #3323 "The 5-Year- Christmas Party (Hallmark) I try to encourage Hallmark when they present films a bit out of the box, and here is one attempt. The premise relies on the meeting of these two very young people who have a love at first sight kind of opening, but then they find themselves too busy to work on any relationship. This goes on for, you guessed it, 5 years (see title) , and there comes a time when they hit a wall -- they must make a decision on where the two of them, individually and together, are going. You can guess it kind of dragged out , and became hard to believe that they could rekindle year after year after year....but there are people that can get together after a long time and act like no time has passed -- so I guess in that way it could happen. What makes the show more watchable than most of the Hallmark run-of-the-mill films is that the two actors are very capable, and one is even a somewhat famous actor --- Jordan Fisher. The Stage business was food, so that was kind of boring, but the two kids were full of energy and adventure so they were fun to watch. But the number of awkward scenes was very high, and therefore a bit annoying to watch. And the story, since it skipped around in time was a bit choppy. But it was about theatre, so that drew me in to the film. The struggles were mostly over money, so that made it topical, but the ending wasn't very satisfactory to me, so I would give it 3.5.
"THE 5-YEAR CHRISTMAS PARTY" 2024 1 hr and 24 mins
Told over the course of five years, two recent college grads find themselves drawn together year after year while working for a catering company that specializes in holiday parties.
Director: Peter Benson
Writer: Zac Hug
Actors: Katie Findlay, Jordan Fisher
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