Snowbound for Christmas (TV Movie 2019)

Snowbound for Christmas: Directed by Marco Deufemia. With Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Henderson Wade, Scott Thompson, Josephine Buettner. Marketing exec lands a spot on a big project but before the presentation, a snowstorm traps her and her boss at a resort where they realize there is more to their relationship than just business.

“It is approaching the Christmas season and Rachel Carter has just landed her dream job as a marketing director in a real estate development company. She is eager to impress her boss, Adrian Blackstone, and when a new project arises, redeveloping a villa in Tuscany, she burns the midnight oil to create a presentation an impressive marketing video. This earns her a spot on her bossu0026#39;s small team heading to a resort – which is about to open for a much bigger presentation to the Tuscan clients. While there, an unexpected snowstorm moves in, trapping Rachel and Adrian at the resort. They get to spend some quality personal time together realizing there may be more to their relationship than just business. (The maitre-du0026#39; of the resort, with a silly French-Canadian accent, fusses around the two of them. Because of the snowstorm, none of the scheduled several hundred guests of the resort arrive.)nBut Diane (or Diana, with a slight European accent), an architect in the same company, and part of Adrianu0026#39;s larger team, had had a brief relationship with Adrian some while ago. She is now jealous of Rachel, and scheming to pair up with him again. However early in the first full day at the resort, as the company architect, she is sent to assess possible re-development of remote cabins on the resort grounds. Then, during the snowstorm, Diana is herself snowbound in a distant primitive cabin, with her local driver. At this point, the story alternates between the extreme luxury Rachel and Adrian are enjoying, as the only guests at the resort (which Adrian had refurbished in a previous project), and the hardships Diana and her reluctant companion are enduring in their icy cabin – can they get the pot-bellied stove burning to heat the cabin? can they survive on cans of Spam? can they tolerate one another?nDiana then schemes to set up a big presentation pitch (the first had been abandoned because of the snow storm) at Vale, with Adrian, alone. Diana, dismissively, says she can get all of Rachelu0026#39;s input from a thumb-drive.nLater, Rachel is assigned the minor task of organising the companyu0026#39;s Christmas party. During the party, Diana, smirking, and returning from Vale, tells Rachel that she and Adrian have reconnected.nRachel is bitterly disappointed. On Christmas Eve, alone in her apartment, she is consoled by her parents arriving unexpectedly, to spend Christmas with her. Then Adrian arrives, confused by Rachelu0026#39;s gallant rebuffs. When Rachelu0026#39;s father, defending his daughter, blurts out about Dianau0026#39;s claims on Adrian, Diana is revealed as a liar – and happy endings ensue. The movie closes with snapshots from what is almost certainly Rachel and Adrianu0026#39;s honeymoon in Hawaii, or some other tropical paradise!nWell cast, and pleasantly acted, although the minor characters are more like caricatures, the final result is predictable (of course) but OK.nIncidentally, Christmas is not really the theme, only the setting for this workplace romance.”