3) Amy rejects him, but later shows up at his house with an apology cake and the butler actually stands there and talks to her. 2) He, Lukas, decides this complete stranger, Amy, whom he knows nothing about, will replace his experienced contest level dancing partner in an elite waltz contest. ***SPOILERS*** 1) Unknown American woman walks up to "Vienna's Prince Harry" and asks for tickets to the exclusive Christmas Ball and he actually discusses it with her. Settle in with your hot chocolate and your best dancing slippers, and prepare to be swept off your feet.ĭon't get it wrong, this is every bit a fantastical fairy tale as Snow White or Cinderella. Nice extra touches in a fairly nice and definitely pretty movie. It's rare in holiday fare to allow secondary characters anything of a plot but the brother who brought Our Heroine to Vienna had his own minor storyline that eventually meshed with our heroine's, and a few bit players got callback moments in the final scene as well. They seem like real people going about their own lives, with only occasional lapses into propping up the pretty heroine. After that, the script takes some pleasant detours on the way to the inevitable happy ending, among them that some extras had a point to their presence that was not all 'spoil the budding romance'. Of course there is also a snooty scheming other woman. Actually it's a different male character she meets on the (beautifully decorated, cobblestoned) street, and only after she's been the traditional gauche New-Worlder and the rich Old-Austrian boy has been rude to her. Plus I'm a longtime devotee of the waltz, and nobody does that like the Viennese The cute American girl, the rich & handsome Viennese boy, the cute meet on a Christmas-bedecked cobblestone street.the script pretty much writes itself. TBH 2 of those stars are due more to my nostalgia for the city's market & the giant ferris wheel than to any quality of the movie. I won't tell you how it all works out but it does and the two get back together, the bad girl runs out in embarrassment after getting dumped while dancing in the contest and all ends well. Fortunately, the uncle has tickets to the ball and uncle, brother, and sister go together. He teams up with his original bad partner for the ball competition. In classic Hallmark fashion, the man assumes the brother is her boyfriend an departs in a huff. The man goes to visit her in the hospital and sees her with her brother. They practice hard but our lady is injured when the old partner spills water on the dance floor. A man whose his partner in a dance contest dumps him for another partner, grabs our American visitor to be his new partner in this ballroom dancing contest to win the chance to dance in the grand Christmas ball and win there. A woman goes to Vienna to see her brother after a breakup with the usual bad boyfriend. Here, Variety ranks the best Hallmark holiday movies to rewatch this year.If you like Hallmark movies, you will enjoy this. Bure stars in four of the 10 most-viewed Christmas movies on the network, which also include “Switched for Christmas,” “The Christmas Train” and “A Royal Christmas.” “Christmas Under Wraps,” starring Candace Cameron Bure and David O’Donnell, debuted in 2014 and still holds the record for Hallmark’s highest-ever broadcast premiere ratings. In 2013, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries rolled out their own version of “Countdown to Christmas” with “Miracles of Christmas” (originally “The Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas” and then “The Most Wonderful Miracles of Christmas”), airing at least 15 original movies during the same months. The channel first launched “Countdown to Christmas,” during which more than 20 new holiday movies premiere between October and December, in 2010. While there have been changes behind-the-scenes at the network, one thing remains the same: Their holiday cheer. It’s officially Christmas movie season - in fact, at the Hallmark Channel, it begins in October.
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