I saw this film under the title "Christmas in the Heartland" on Netflix where it's currently playing as I write this. It's a nice, feel good film involving a pair of young teenage girls who meet on a plane flight and figure it would be a good idea to switch destinations with family members they never met before. It's a recipe for trouble if there ever was one, since you can imagine that the deceived parties will come to regard their visitor as one of their own. That's what you'd imagine, but in it's own way, when the girls finally confess, it's accepted as par for the course and everything is hunky dory on both sides. Except of course, for the wife who gets ditched by the wealthy industrialist who somehow got duped into marrying her instead of his true love, the grandmother from the other side! One of the things I couldn't understand in the story was how these two teens run into each other in downtown Guthrie, Oklahoma, presumably seeing each other for the first time with their respective 'families', and greet each other as long lost friends. Not one of the involved parties questioned how that circumstance could be possible. There's other unexplainable stuff as well, but for the magic to work, I guess one isn't supposed to question the obvious and just go along with the flow. Which is what my twelve year old granddaughter did, who thought it was a pretty good movie. How am I going to argue with that?
Review of The Christmas Trap
