Christmas in Montana
Network: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Director: TW Peacocke
Writer: Julie Sherman Wolfe
Plot Summary:
As Christmas approaches, Sara, a Los Angeles-based financial advisor and single mom, is sent to a small Montana town to help save a financially struggling cattle ranch. There, she meets Travis, the handsome owner of the troubled ranch now facing its last Christmas. Before long, Sara’s ambitious efforts to generate revenue clash with Travis’ laid-back business approach. When she unexpectedly starts to fall for small-town life — and for Travis — Sara must find a way to save the ranch without compromising his traditional values and must decide whether she’s going to return to L.A. or spend Christmas in Montana.
Cast:
Kellie Martin (Sara)
Colin Ferguson (Travis)
Ava Preston (Chloe)
Art Hindle (Pops)
Victoria Snow (Kay)
Kayla Hutton (Lexie)
Rob Stewart (Peter)
Darryl Hinds (Stephen)
Scott Barker (J.T.)
Dan MacKay (Neil)
Sammi Vassell (Passer-by)
My Rating:
My Thoughts:
As a Montana citizen, who has lived in Bigfork, this movie doesn’t do Bigfork or Montana justice. I was very disappointed with the final product. I felt it had a lot of potential, but that was just shot down.
Let’s discuss things that went wrong.
- The sets were utterly wrong. Seriously, you expect us to believe that the cattle ranch has a house that looks like that. Speaking of the ranch house, how is it a place that huge only has two bedrooms? That doesn’t make any sense to me at all. So when Sara and her daughter stay over, they have to sleep on the couches.
- This is supposed to be a working cattle ranch, and yet they show three cows. Oh, and no one was checking the cattle.
- Then Bigfork doesn’t look like how it does in the movie. Where was Flathead lake?
- Bigfork is called The Christmas Town. Yet, they use real trees and fir boughs, not plastic ones. In Bigfork, they don’t walk around with a bunch of hay on the ground in town, and it would be way too cold for poinsettias to be outside.
- Another thing that they messed up was a tree that Sara (Kellie Martin) cut down wasn’t the same tree that they stood up in the ranch house.
- Christmas in Montana is so full of cliches as well. I mean I like some cliches but the tone that they put into a film.
What basically saved this movie from being a one star is the story and the mother-daughter duo that they had going with Kellie Martin and Ava Preston. I liked the way the story went for them. Also, the chemistry between Kellie Martin and Colin Ferguson is okay. It was there but not a whole lot.
This movie is pitifully done. I expected so much more from Kellie Martin.
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