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A single man tries to win a bet by getting a woman recovering from a broken engagement to marry him by Christmas.A single man tries to win a bet by getting a woman recovering from a broken engagement to marry him by Christmas.A single man tries to win a bet by getting a woman recovering from a broken engagement to marry him by Christmas.
Andrew W. Walker
- Aiden MacTiernan
- (as Andrew Walker)
Kimberley Sustad
- Vivian Patterson
- (as Kimberly Sustad)
Janet Gigliotti
- Caroller #1
- (as Janet Mary Gigliotti)
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- TriviaSage Brocklebank is also a professional poker player.
- GoofsAbout an hour into the movie, when Jessie is telling Aiden that his floors are being refinished, Jessie's scarf is tied differently within the same scene. She is shown front then back and it can be seen the scarf is different.
- Quotes
Hank Patterston: There's a lot of people you can live with, but there's only one you can't live without.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Cinema Snob: Dear Santa (2016)
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Good But with Issues
A BRIDE FOR Christmas is a well-made Hallmark TV movie that debuted in December of 2012. Its leads, Andrew Walker and Arielle Kebbel, are two fine, handsome young actors. The story has some good jokes, fine pictures and some good supporting actors -- particularly by Duffy, a handsome and energetic dog. Yet at its heart is a creepy, stalker plot that made me shake my head.
Mr. Walker is a successful man whose friends are all married. He alone remains committed to a life of casual relationships, but agrees to a bet that he can get a woman to accept his proposal by Christmas. He chooses Ms. Kebbel, a woman who has walked out on three fiancés, including one at the altar, as his subject. Then he stalks her.
Along the way they fall in love in a charming fashion, but that initial set-up, in which he proposes to make a girl fall in love with him with no thought of the consequences is disquieting. Romantic comedies have a long tradition of such attitudes from the way Jimmy Stewart treats Margaret Sullavan in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER to just about every Rock Hudson-Doris Day movie. In this movie careful writing deals with the issues I felt but do not quite dispose of them. I wound up enjoying it but not awarding it the superior rating I would have without that issue.
Mr. Walker is a successful man whose friends are all married. He alone remains committed to a life of casual relationships, but agrees to a bet that he can get a woman to accept his proposal by Christmas. He chooses Ms. Kebbel, a woman who has walked out on three fiancés, including one at the altar, as his subject. Then he stalks her.
Along the way they fall in love in a charming fashion, but that initial set-up, in which he proposes to make a girl fall in love with him with no thought of the consequences is disquieting. Romantic comedies have a long tradition of such attitudes from the way Jimmy Stewart treats Margaret Sullavan in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER to just about every Rock Hudson-Doris Day movie. In this movie careful writing deals with the issues I felt but do not quite dispose of them. I wound up enjoying it but not awarding it the superior rating I would have without that issue.
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- boblipton
- Dec 2, 2012
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- Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada(Eighteen 27 Bistro is visible)
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