Waking Up To Christmas

Rating: 9/10

Reason: many funny moments, and full circle jokes & gags

*Watched on Amazon Prime Video (Age 7+)

SPOILERS BELOW!

                                                          

Lady breaks up with her boyfriend just before Christmas. She's going on vacation to Bali by herself because Christmas is about spending time with family and spending money, and she hates it all! Christmas isn't like all those silly movies with the handsome lumberjack that sweeps you off your feet! Her assistant calls her Scrooge.

The plane hits a blizzard and has to land in Colorado instead of Bali. It's cold. Lady's suitcase got left in New York... Her laptop was in that bag! 

Santa appears in the airport!

Lady gets grumpy about Santa and snow. She trips on Christmas lights and a handsome Lumberjack type guy comes to her aid.

The storm is suddenly gone, so the Lady tries to find a flight out. But it's a tiny airport and they close for the holidays. The last flight just left! She'll have to stay a week!

Also the hotel (singular) is fully booked! But the Airport Lady has a guest room! Also, the Lumberjack dude is her son! 

Lumberjack and Lady go into town, and Lady slips on the ice, and a Doctorman catches her! And he's a widower with a young daughter. He's ready to love again...

Lady and Lumberjack proceed to his house... Guess what his name is! It's Chris Kringle!

Lady comments about all the decorations in the house being a bit much. Lumberjack says, "Christmas wasn't important to your family?"

Lady replies, "family wasn't important to my family."

Lumberjack calls her Scrooge.

Santa appears in the house and scares the crap out of the Lady. She freaks out and runs away tripping on the Christmas tree. 

She awakens surrounded by the family. She heads to the bathroom to discover there's no toilet. The fridge in the kitchen is only filled with eggnog. She blows out a candle and it immediately relights. "Oh no! I'm trapped in a Christmas movie!"

Santa appears to tell her she will remain in the Christmas movie and this small town until she finds her Christmas spirit. 

Lumberjack family discusses the town fair and how attendance is down. So sad... But Lady is a PR person. She offers to help (save the fair = go home, right?)

Lumberjack doesn't trust Lady. Why the sudden change of heart?

Lumberjack's ex girlfriend shows up. "Gwen Rinch" is her name. She's trying to make the fair profitable, bring in outside partners. Bad bad bad.

Lumberjack and Lady keep working on the fair. They decide to go walk around the town. It's cold. He offers her his coat. She says no thanks (who knows where that could lead in a Christmas movie).

Doctorman shows up. Gallantly picks up her dropped gloves. And mentions again that he's single and looking for love. Lady spins it and asks if he'll support the fair.

Part of what Lady feels she should do is the "regular" Christmassy stuff like:

Decorate a tree

Wrap presents 

Make gingerbread house

Drink hot chocolate

Ice skate

Have a snowball fight

But she's a bit misguided on how to do those things. She thinks a snowball fight is tossing the same snowball back and forth. She thinks decorating a 10" tree counts as decorating a tree...

Santa decides the lady needs some help, so he brings her assistant. Assistant is very excited about the prospect of being in a Christmas movie! 

Assistant helps Lady see that maybe what she's missing is the holiday romance. The Lady shows that every guy in town is "in love" with her. It doesn't mean anything!  But then Lumberjack tried to kiss her, and it gets too real. She runs away. 

Santa gives up on her and says she can go home if she wants. She's excited to leave, but Lumberjack asks why she hates Christmas so much....

Lady says she wrote Santa a letter when she was 9. She had a fabulous Christmas, and on New Years Day her dad walked out. She's just a realist. She knows it's all fake! Lumberjack is sad. If this isn't real, do you think we aren't real? 

Gwen Rinch has been working hard to convince all the businesses around town to pull out of the fair, so things aren't going well for Lumberjack...

Then ma and pa lumberjack demonstrate through their gifts to each other how much they love each other. It's not just the gift that counts, it's the care and love that go into it.

Lady decides to "embrace the Christmas of it all," so she takes Lumberjack around town and talks to all the business owners that she had convinced to come back and support the fair! It's saved!

The Lady found her Christmas spirit! Huzzah!  

Gwen Rinch has a change of heart too. She publicly apologizes for her actions. She also asks Lumberjack if he wants to grab coffee. 

But Lumberjack has eyes for the Lady! 

Gwen Rinch slips on the ice, and Doctorman catches her. Will they live happily ever after?

Lady has to go to the airport for her flight home. Lady gets in cab, and Lumberjack runs after her. Too late Lumberjack!

Santa appears in the airport, and tells the Lady she should reconnect with her dad who she has been avoiding for years. She calls him and leaves a voicemail. 

Santa asks what she really wants for Christmas... She wants to go back and talk to Lumberjack! But the only way to get back to him at this point is to turn it into a musical! So she begrudgingly breaks into song. It works. Lumberjack shows up in the airport. And they thank each other for saving the fair and the Christmas spirit. 

The end