Holiday Heritage (2022) -
At another time I would have given this film more of a go, but it was all just a bit too somber and depressing for my mood at the time. With her Grandpa dead, Ella, played by Lyndie Greenwood, returned home for some festive escapism, but her Mother (Holly Robinson Peete) and Grandmother (Darlene Cooke) have been falling out and, thanks to a promise she made to Gramps, it's up to Ella to bring the two women back together, before Mum, Micah moves away to Chicago for good. All that and the only person who could help Ella was her ex boyfriend Griffin, played by Brooks Darnell, but there was a lot of animosity there too.
Although Brooks was quite charming and dashingly handsome, I just couldn't take the upsets and arguments that were likely to come as the story progressed as well as the constant reminiscing of how Grandpa would have done things if he were still alive.
I might tune in again when I'm feeling lighter and braver to take on the world, but at this time I needed something more fluffy and simplistic.
Unscored as Unfinished.
At another time I would have given this film more of a go, but it was all just a bit too somber and depressing for my mood at the time. With her Grandpa dead, Ella, played by Lyndie Greenwood, returned home for some festive escapism, but her Mother (Holly Robinson Peete) and Grandmother (Darlene Cooke) have been falling out and, thanks to a promise she made to Gramps, it's up to Ella to bring the two women back together, before Mum, Micah moves away to Chicago for good. All that and the only person who could help Ella was her ex boyfriend Griffin, played by Brooks Darnell, but there was a lot of animosity there too.
Although Brooks was quite charming and dashingly handsome, I just couldn't take the upsets and arguments that were likely to come as the story progressed as well as the constant reminiscing of how Grandpa would have done things if he were still alive.
I might tune in again when I'm feeling lighter and braver to take on the world, but at this time I needed something more fluffy and simplistic.
Unscored as Unfinished.