Successful businessman John (Ben Graham) has never come over the death of his wife five years ago, which is also why he spends every Christmas at her favourite Christmas resort, Keestone, and knows pretty much every employee there - all but new pastry chef Madelyn (Candice Graham) ... but he immediately falls in love with her cookies upon tasting them. He offers to help her move her recipe into mass production, which she at first misunderstands as flirting, also egged on by her best friend and colleague Whisper (Meggie Jenny), which leads to many an awkward moment between them. But John gradually warms up to Madelyn, and before long they actually go out on dates. Thing is, John still has problems forgetting his dead wife. And then a trio of businesspeople (Kevin Sorbo, Colin Bernsen, Gigi Orsillo) stops by Keestone to make John an offer that's hard to resist but that would completely change the trajectory of his life, for better or worse ...

Basically a romantic comedy wrapped up in Christmas coating, Christmas at Keestone is at times maybe a little too just sweet for its own good, but it's also a film full of heart with a subtle directorial effort that doesn't try to bulldoze one with seasonal kitsh, and the performances are all suitably restrained to give the proceedings a certain air of believability not necessarily present in Christmas movies, And the result then is a perfectly harmless yet pretty cute film.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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