50/16
-after this year’s offering of romantic holiday-themed movies to watch from the comfort of your own home
Tale
Alana Higman, a die-hard Kansas City Chiefs fan, and her family are competing to win the team’s Fan of the Year award, in a process judged by Director of Fan Engagement Derrick. The film was shot on location in historic Independence Square in Independence, Missouri, which actually looks like it all year round. The locations that served as the Higman family’s grocery store and Norma and Nick’s BBQ are also real-life family stores.
Okay, wrong sports reference
The Square also has Christmas lights like the one in the movie. I have to give the writers and producers credit here for trying to do something completely different in a Christmas movie story, even if Christmas just involved wearing the Chiefs’ sled every time the team has a game on Christmas Day. So they swung a big punch, but they only got it right once.
He has a unique style that’s entertaining
Maybe I should say they threw deep and got pass interference, but not a bombshell. Hunter King and Tyler Hynes had decent chemistry here, and we’ve liked Tyler in a few of these movies. However, some things in this movie threw us off the story, like the mother and grandmother practically throwing Hunter into a stranger’s lap as soon as he walked through the door.
managed to deliver an emotional performance
Then, the whole story about how upset Hunter got about “not believing in the hat” was hilarious, especially when it was the best the writers could come up with to inject some late-night tension into the romance. Much of the “best fan” part of the story worked, and Ed Begley, Jr. Parkinson’s has left him looking 15 years older than he should at 75, which is a shame, but not his fault.
Luckily, she only appeared once more, and briefly
Some of this year’s movies have featured annoying supporting characters who overact in an unpleasant way, and this movie is one of them. The deli owner almost made me put this movie down in the first five minutes. We’re not sorry we saw this, despite a few plot issues, but we won’t be going back for a rerun.