“Christmas Collision” is a film that tries to highlight hope and also forgiveness and while certain unneeded scenes and bad acting hampers the film a bit, people familiar with holiday romance dramas, know what to expect and will be entertained by this film.
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TITLE: Christmas Collision
FILM YEAR: 2021
DURATION: 1 Hr., 35 Minutes
COMPANY: Stewbean Productions
Based on the novel “A Christmas Bride” by Hope Ramsay
Directed by Lana Read
Written by Nancy Pushkar, Lana Read
Produced by Jamie Goehring, Rob Lycar
Executive Producer: Rachael Leigh Cook, Jim Head, Michael Prupas, Joel S. Rice, Shawn Wiliamson
Music by Chris Ainscough
Cinematography by Ron Stannett
Edited by Jason Dale
Casting by Lindsay Chag
Set Decoration by Mykhila Drummond
Costume Design byTrish Petrovich
Starring:
Sebrina Scott as Theodora Greenly
John Wells as Charles King
Alyssa Ryan as Melissa
Veron Wells as Ronan
Eric Six as Kelly
Micahel Pare as Jaggar Huntley
A time-consumed professional crosses paths with a writer when she travels to his hometown for business just before Christmas. Unexpected circumstances bring them together, and sparks fly between the two.
If there was a film that I missed in last year’s holiday film review, I know that I missed on “Christmas Collision”, an indie film which streamed online.
The film was directed by Lana Read (“A Bachelor’s Valentine”, “Forbearance”) and was co-written by Nancy Pushkar (“The Randoms”).
“Christmas Collision” stars Sebrina Scott (“Overtiime”, “Like Vapor”), John Wells (“Arena Wars”, “The Dark: The Great Detective”), Michael PAre (“The Virgin Suicides”, “Hope Floats”, “The Great American Hero”), Vernon Wells (“Commando”, “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior”, “Inner Space”) and more.
The premise of the film is that Theodora Greenly (portrayed by Sebrina Scott) is the cut throat employee of a real estate company trying to repossess farmland owned by the deceased mother of Charles King (portrayed by John Wells). Charles, who is a writer, had returned home for his mother, who just passed away.
Theodora is sent to deliver news about the real estate company she works for is repossessing the land, which happens to be on the day they put his mother to rest.
But while meeting with Charles alone, while she was leaving the home, she trips and twisted her ankle badly. With not being able to move, she ends up staying at Charles’ home.
And while Theodora is cold city woman, her life changes while she heals and gets to see the kind heart of Charles.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, we learn that Theodora’s boss, Ronan is working with some shady people and obtaining the land may be through illegal means.
For the most part, I do like the story involving both Theodora and Charles, and it involves the small town friends in the area as they are planning on Christmas and the annual Christmas cookie competition.
While I was entertained, there is no denying that the acting is not so great with some of the support characters. The film also has some issues with trying to introduce characters mainly to try to connect the dots or add more characters to help extend the duration of the film’s time. Because in truth, a lot of these characters and those characters storylines could have easily been edited out.
But at the same time, I’m not going to go that hard to dissing this holiday film because holiday films are never perfect. You watch these films to be entertained, feel the spirit of Christmas and want that positive happy message (unless you are one of those people who prefers the violent horror Christmas films).
The time to shoot is short, they often are shooting a holiday film during the summer which probably makes it very inconvenient and the writing quality depends on the production company and the budget.
Expecting banal cliche, spotty acting, cheesy situations are common place in holiday telefilms or direct-to-video films. It’s just how things are and it’s a big business as more online streaming companies are doing holiday programming in November through December and it attracts millions of viewers.
If anything, “Christmas Collision” is a film that tries to highlight hope and also forgiveness and while certain unneeded scenes and bad acting hampers the film a bit, people familiar with holiday romance dramas, know what to expect and will be entertained by this film.
