Lifetime doesn’t seem to have a ton of Christmas movies on their slate this year. Holiday In Happy Hollow is just the second new movie they have released. My schedule is super full so I don’t really want them to have more movies but this seems…lackluster.
Gracie (Tamara Almeida) is a real estate developer working to build a new hotel in Happy Hollow. Unfortunately, she has just discovered five very small privately owned plots in the location they are planning to build. In order to start work on the hotel, she needs to find who owns these plots and get them to release ownership. With the help of town historian Jack Carrington (Cody Ray Thompson), Gracie researches the town’s Christmas traditions in the hopes that they will lead her to the landowners.
Happy Hollow was a fairly cute movie. It was interesting seeing some of the town traditions. However, neither Gracie nor Jack were particularly interesting characters. They seemed to just float some scene to scene with no real motivation. Sure, they said they are looking for the landowners but it didn’t seem like they really wanted to find them. In addition, the romance aspect felt very tacked on. This wasn’t a hate to love thing. It was barely a like to love. I don’t know…the movie just needed…more.
Rating: Whatever marketing person said the hotel should be named Happi should be fired.