Christmas on the Coast (TV Movie 2018)

Christmas on the Coast: Directed by Gary Wheeler. With Julie Ann Emery, Burgess Jenkins, Bonnie Bedelia, Clarence Gilyard Jr.. Hard-hearted New York novelist Dru Cassadine…known for her holiday romance stories (even though she is antilove and anti-Christmas)…is desperate to get her mojo back after a string of flops (and a not-so-subtle threat by her publisher that he’ll drop her if she has another failure). She decides that a change of scenery might get her creative juices flowing and heads south for the winter, landing in a place known as Harbor Pointe. She doesn’t quite get what she came for. She gets much more.

“I love Christmas movies and I love movies about authors so this should have been an easily enjoyable movie… but it wasnu0026#39;t. The main character, Drucinda, was so unlikable I turned the movie off after 20 minutes. Characters should be flawed, yes, but if you donu0026#39;t have a main character you can cheer for, the movie is an instant failure. Her hairstyle was atrocious and I never notice things like that unless itu0026#39;s pretty bad. The script was careless and lacked attention to detail. For example, the problems with Drucindau0026#39;s novel series, as pointed out by the critic, are things that would NEVER escape the notice of a publisher and thus, wouldnu0026#39;t have been published. Details like this must be kept realistic and do not fall under the category of suspending disbelief. In short, it was a bad, Hallmark wannabe movie that I passed on. Burgess Jenkins was great, and the reason I didnu0026#39;t rate this movie 1 Star.”