A Star-Crossed Christmas

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They are my not-so-guilty pleasure — overworked city girl goes to seasonally-named small town where she discovers a wholesome cookie-scented life assisted by an estranged high-school sweetheart/local grumpy hunk with an SUV and emotional back story. Somewhat predictably, Rick and Julie aren’t the only ones breaking the rules in a cross-family romance as Bear and Holly are found having a (family-friendly) fumble behind the hay bales. Julie and Rick fall in love despite being on opposite sides of feuding Christmas-tree-farm families.

Once you get over the corny family names, Pine and Spruce, and forget the cheesy nickname "Bear" for a big burly smiling tub of a man (maybe not such a bad nickname after all), and accept that the story of ridiculously feuding families and thwarted star-crossed lovers is a happier variant on Romeo and Juliet, this is a good film. Gradually the audience finds out what the two male tree farm owners Dave Spruce, (Ken Cheeseman) and James Pine (Tom Kemp) decades old dispute is about. Although a simple story line, I am quite sure that there are literally millions of men and women who have lived the rest of their lives regrettably for listening to their closest loved ones (fathers, mothers, aunts, or uncles) and for years wondered to themselves ". Later when Julie Pine steals the note pad and reads "Stay away from the Pines," is spelled correctly. There wasn't enough emotion when showing how the wife and mother's passing had really affected her family, especially her husband - this would have added to the climax.Rick and Julie reconcile around the same time as their grumpy relatives (who find a moment to blame Julie’s mum again for the rift: “can you forgive me for taking your girl? A Star-Crossed Christmas becomes the comedy Romeo and Juliet was destined to be before Mercutio dies. Add to this the character of the bear of a man Josh, perfectly portrayed by John MacGregor and the sweet, sassy, and beautiful Holly, nicely acted by Sarah Fischer, then you have strong character base to keep you interested. They all die” — at once referencing both the fictional couple and their legendary American real-life counterparts. However, as our viewing habits change, and we demand the content we want streamed 24/7 the made-for-TV Christmas Movie is evolving.

Sadly because of the short-termism of the whole affair, there aren’t any weirdly apt-to-solve-everything letters which fix the rift.

It was filmed under the title A Star-Crossed Christmas, which is also the title it was released as in the United Kingdom.

When they realise they each come from different sides of the bitter Pine-Spruce feud, Julie initially rejects Rick. Inevitably one child of a family falls in love with a child of the other family, and they are under a lot of pressure to break up due to old grudges.John Stimpson, 2017) — also known by the less Bardtastic title The Spruces and the Pines — is a classic made-for-TV Christmas Movie.