Movie # 1627 ........................."Love Always, Santa"

Movie #1627 "Love Always, Santa" -- I think out of all the Hallmark films I have seen thus far,  this one is my favorite --- and I can't believe I forgot to write a blog on it the first time I saw it last year --- when I looked at the title this year and the synopsis, I remembered some scenes with the writer in the restaurant and I checked my blogs and I hadn't done a review on it, so I enjoyed a rewatch this past week.  I liked everything about it --- the looks of the town, the two leads (so capable and so caring), the little girl is unbelievably great! the secondary people add humor (esp. her supposed boyfriend and the guy's  best friend), the two leads are writers and LOVE and cherish the written word , Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot.  There was only one snowball tossed (as if they were making fun of all the Hallmark movies), and the movie is so believable and natural that we the audience follow them through the terribly unbelievable ending where he rides up in a horse drawn carriage to find her and her daughter in the snow ---- sounds silly, but it works, and they even wink about it --- they make fun periodically in the movie about any happenstance that occurs --- favorite line to prove that?  When the lead woman finds out that Santa and the writer are one in the same, she says to herself:  "I should have known when I come across two people who reference 20th century authors in one week" -- This movie even has a really strong theme, and the writer quotes it to her:  "A Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal."  I love that and had to write it down it was that good!    I give this movie 5 stars out of 5.  Highly recommend.  Check it out!


"LOVE ALWAYS, SANTA"     2016

A widow's daughter writes to Santa Claus, asking for her mother to find love again. When a struggling writer receives the letter, he finds new inspiration and the beginnings of a romance.

Director:

 Brian Herzlinger

Writers:

 Jay Black, Brian Herzlinger

Stars:

 Marguerite Moreau, Mike Faiola, Brady Smith