Christmas in the Heartland

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2017

1h 52m

Holiday

Comedy

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Teenagers Kara and Jessie strike up an unlikely friendship while sitting next to each other on a plane that's bound for the heartland. Forced to spend the holidays in the same small town with relatives that they've never met, the girls devise a plan to switch places for Christmas. Jessie soon finds herself living lavishly with Kara's wealthy grandparents, while Kara starts to bond with Jessie's fun, quirky grandmother and the most genuine, modest family that she's ever known.

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Brian Costello

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Uninspired holiday family movie; some drinking, bullying.

Rated: 1/5

Dec 7, 2019

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James M

Exposition in the heartland. There's virtually no plot or character development. All the dialogue is exposition. The "twists" are there to try to breathe life into the story but their predictable and so heavily foreshadowed that they're just annoying. Most of the characters are flat and the writing hilariously bad, even for a family Christmas movie. It's honestly one of the worst films I've ever seen. It's nearly bad enough to watch just to make fun of it, but it's too bland to even be entertaining in that way

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/23/24

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The worst movie I’ve every seen and as someone from the south this really offended me, and why is everyone related but they didn’t know it like what kind of incest is this?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/06/24

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The acting of the two dads plus the portrayal of poor people being ignorant and stupid as hell totally ruined this movie. The teenage stars were the only thing that saved it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/25/24

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Caroline S

My cousins were in it the little boys in that one scene im proud of them

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/30/24

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Predictable and over complicated. There were way too many plot twists all revealed at the end and so many boring, predictable side stories that tried to get me to like these one-sided boring stereotypes that are the main characters. It also ends on a cringey dance scene at the end, and some main story elements just don't make sense. Like how the boys cant go to school but somehow the poor family lives in this beautiful house with amazing decorations. Mainly it was just boring though. Cleary was made to be played in the background during a Christmas party.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

a little better than a Hallmark movie

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Harvey Lowry

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Synopsis

Director: Harvey Lowry
Producer: Harvey Lowry, Jasmine Fontes, Rachel Meyer, Kelli Kaye
Screenwriter: Dave Matheny
Production Co: Ascension Media, BCF Film Group
Genre: Holiday, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 14, 2017
Runtime: 1h 52m

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