Christmas CEO (TV Movie 2021)

Christmas CEO (TV Movie 2021). Christmas CEO: Directed by Jonathan Wright. With Marisol Nichols, Paul Greene, Veronica Marin-Estrada, Tedd Dillon. A small toy company CEO gets a once in a lifetime offer to merge with a mega toy company but will need her estranged ex-business partner’s signature to seal the deal.

“I remember when Hallmark Christmas movies were cute and there was a little bit of an attempt at a story line. Now that they churn out so many movies each Christmas season, Hallmark really doesnu0026#39;t care if there even IS a story line.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIntro of movie shows main characters Joe and Christmas (no, I didnu0026#39;t make this up, thatu0026#39;s her name 🙄) selling homemade toys as children. Itu0026#39;s 1999. Fast forward 22 years which would make Joe and Chris between 35 to 40 years old. Joe and Chris, although they have aged better than most, are clearly not between 35 to 40 years old. Chris always wanted to be CEO of a toy company. For some reason, Joe does not share in Chrisu0026#39; enthusiasm of having a profitable business, so he abandons the partnership of the toy company and disappears. They havenu0026#39;t communicated in seven years. When Chris gets an offer to merge their company with another, she quite easily locates Joe exactly where you would presume he would be, but for some reason, a random Santa Claus had to give her that information.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJoe and Chris meet up. Joe tells his dad he always had feelings for Chris, but never shared them. Her zeal for success was a real turnoff for him. Typically for Hallmark, there is usually another love interest that provides some drama in the story. This, however, didnu0026#39;t happen in Christmas CEO. There really was no plot, no conflict. It left me wondering how tired the writers must have been when they slapped this script together.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe obligatory child was thrown in to this story, in this case, a teenaged niece of Chris. My daughter and I were in tears when Joe lovingly scooped up this sleeping adult-sized u0026quot;childu0026quot; to put her to bed. Super cringey.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTruly disappointing as I set my PVR to watch this one as I am a Paul Greene fan and have enjoyed some of other movies, especially Anything for Love. I didnu0026#39;t like the female love interest.”