While it may not be each of their best holiday telefilm that they have starred in, their reunion for this 2017 holiday film “A Very Merry Toy Store” is still worth watching.
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TITLE: A Furry Little Christmas
FILM YEAR: 2021
DURATION: 86 Minutes
COMPANY: MarVista Entertainment
Directed by Dylan Vox
Written by Andra Gordon-Gatica
Executive Producer: Megan Ellstrom, Larry Grimaldi, Audrey Mesler, Samantha Spencer
Producer: Liana Rae Perez, Dylan Vox
Music by Mikel Shane Prather
Cinematography by Ryan Brown
Edited by Jeremy M. Inman
Casting by Scotty Mullen
Art Direction: Kayla Lenberg
Costume Design by Jenny Milne-Wright
Starring:
Jonathan Stoddard as Josh
Kristi Murdock as Scarlet
Michael Swan as Mitch
Pono Say as Milo
Amie Dasher as Alice
Dylan Vox is a filmmaker known for films such as “Jersey Shore Shark Attack”, “Dead 7”, “Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood” and the filmmaker takes a step outside of a less violent genre and that is the holiday film titled “A Furry Little Christmas”.
Written by Andra Gordon-Garcia and starring Jonathan Stoddard (“Black Monday”, “The Young and the Restless”), Kristi Murdock (“Spring Break Nightmare”, “My Nightmare Office Affair”), Michael Swan (“As the World Turns”, “Hilton Head Island”) and Pono Say.
The film revolves around New York Veterinarian and single mother Scarlet (portrayed by Kristi Murdock) taking her son Milo (portrayed by Pono Say) to visit her veterinarian father Mitch (portrayed by Michael Swan) for Christmas in Vermont.
Scarlet and her son are so used to their New York upbringing but while her father wishes she would move back home and they can run a vet practice together, she’s not really interested.
During her vacation, she meets doctor Josh (portrayed by Jonathan Stoddard) and immediately the two start hitting it off when they spend more time together.
But being an independent woman and mother, she is not sure if she wants to risk all she worked hard for and living in New York to live back in Vermont.
Watching “A Furry Little Christmas”, I thought this would be another canine Christmas film (seeing the big dog on the film visual artwork). But it’s a film that incorporates the banal Christmas film of City person visiting their hometown and finding love and needing to decide if she wants to risk her career to move back home to a man she has fallen in love with.
For the most part, Scarlet has been strong and independent, trying to raise her son after her husband had passed eight years ago and working hard as a veterinarian. But having not have had love since then, she finds a man that she cares about but moving back to Vermont, was not something she had planned.
Will choose the man and stay in Vermont or choose her career with raising her son in New York?
If anything, it’s an OK Christmas storyline. Not the best when it comes to this similar storyline I’ve seen year after year but for those looking for a more romance driven storyline, may want to check this film out. Showing that there is hope to find new love after losing the person you have loved.
