A proper movie. Good singing, great believable acting and excellent chemistry between all parties.
A Christmas Love Story
2019
Action / Drama / Music / Romance
A Christmas Love Story
2019
Action / Drama / Music / Romance
Keywords: christmassingle fatherchoir
Plot summary
Having had one Broadway success in a musical she wrote herself, Katherine Clark is now happier in her current life teaching, she leading a youth choir, an offshoot of which is preparing for its annual Christmas Eve fundraiser. The fundraiser ensures the continuation of the choir for another year. She hits two eleventh hour snags with the show. First, her friend commissioned to write the title song for the fundraiser has to bow out due to other commitments, leaving no title song, the recording of which arguably would be the source of much of their money. That forces Katherine herself to write the song, something she thought she had put long behind her. And second, her star tenor comes down with a bug, he unable to perform in the show. Katherine believes she's found a replacement, the young man, Danny, who just happened to be interning for one day doing odd jobs as extra credit in his application to business school. She discovers that he has untapped natural musical talent. A further snag with Danny is that he generally not only sings for himself and has never done so in public, but that his widowed architect father, Greg Scanlon, may not want Danny to take his focus away from the college application, singing a choir which was not part of their plan. Greg has tried to be all things to Danny since his wife, Danny's mother, passed, it especially important for him to maintain those Christmas traditions. What is already a complicated situation may become more so with the interrelationships that develop between Katherine and both Greg and Danny, the latter who had an ulterior motive not related to music in coming into Katherine's choir room that first day.
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Surprising
Had I been in charge of the remote, I would not have picked this movie from the recording list, but saved it to watch after I'd worked through other titles. I'm not at all a fan of Kristin Chenoweth. Neither she nor Wolf are on my list of must see young and beautiful (or handsome) people. I've seen Chenoweth in other movies in this genre and I have not been impressed.
Was I wrong. I enjoyed this movie. The story had many well used elements, but I liked the way it was put together. I probably should have seen it coming, but I didn't anticipate the "twist" until the last minute. Wolf and Chenoweth connected OK. I also enjoy Christmas movies where professional artists give quality musical performances. I had no idea Chenoweth had a voice like that. (Then I day later, I saw her performing on PBS with a big choir, maybe Mormon Tabernacle?.)
Hallmark seasonal musical
Insomnia made me watch a Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas item. A youth choir director (Kristen Chenoweth) needs to write a finale song for an annual Christmas Eve program. She becomes distracted when meeting a young man (Kevin Quinn) with an outstanding voice that she wants in the choir. The story gets deeper when she meets the young boy's widowed father. The squeaky voice of Chenoweth made it hard to keep my attention. Her speaking voice was so hurried and slurred just proved why I'm not one of her fans.
Also appearing in the cast: Scott Wolf, Jennifer Aspen, Isabella Fromelt and Eric Close.