Netflix: 2021 Christmas Movie Selection
Love Hard (05/11)
Pitch: Natalie, a young woman living in Los Angeles, is struggling to find love. So she decides to use a dating app and finally comes across the right person. Long discussions ensue, until the day Natalie decides to finally meet the boy. Taking advantage of Christmas, she crosses the country to surprise him. Except that when she arrives, she discovers that she has been fooled by Josh who is not at all like in his profile picture.
With Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries) in the title role.
I liked the fact that for once the plot was out of the ordinary.. No more of the eternal encounter between the hot guy who meets the hot girl, who hate each other before ending up together.
Christmas with Santa (06/11)
Pitch: Four sisters will have to quickly learn to play the role of united families when their father, long gone, reappears for Christmas in their sumptuous ancestral mansion.
British Christmas comedy, starring Elizabeth Hurley
Christmas Flow (17/11)
Pitch: When a rapper and a journalist who are complete opposites meet, the magic of Christmas happens!
Romantic Christmas series Made in France, we find Shirine Boutella (Lupine) and rapper Tayc in the lead roles.
The Princess of Chicago 3 (11/18)
Pitch: When a priceless relic is stolen, Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy enlist the help of Fiona, Margaret's daring cousin and lookalike. She teams up with a dashing and mysterious man from her past to retrieve it...which reignites the sparks of a tantalizing Christmas romance and leads to a very unexpected exchange.
3rd opus of this Christmas saga, Vanessa Hudgens reprises her main role here. She now even plays 3 characters.
A boy called Christmas (24/11)
Pitch: In 18th century Finland, an ordinary boy, Nikolas (nicknamed " Christmas " since his early childhood) sets out in search of his father, who himself is searching for the legendary village of the Elves. The latter can help bring magic back into the world.
This story is a reimagining of the Santa Claus origin story based on a book of the same title by Matt Haig
A castle for Christmas (26/11)
Pitch: To escape a scandal, a successful author heads to Scotland, where she falls in love with a castle—and confronts the grumpy duke who owns it.
With Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes (Princess Bride)
Single all the way (02/12)
Pitch: A confirmed bachelor, Peter has had enough of his family's comments about his singlehood. He then decides to celebrate the end-of-year holidays with his best friend Nick. The latter will pretend to be his boyfriend. But that was without counting on his mother's plans, who had already arranged a date for him...
Netflix's first gay romantic Christmas movie, it was filmed here in Montreal
