Mezzanotte al Magnolia

Now it is very rare for me to watch such a movie. I have watched several rom coms over the years but always with hollywood a-listers staring. I watched it during an airplane trip, so not much choice there, still I am glad I did.

At first it seemed weird to watch a movie where all actors were completely unknown to me. Beyond that, the cliched story was served well by the script, the acting, the pace, but mostly the protagonists chemistry.

Well I began to watch it to kill time and ended up enjoying it. 7/10 might be a little generous but for a low budget tv movie very decent job. Better than several high end production movies, Marry me for instance.

My son told me he was watching this so I decided to watch it too. I'm not sure i would of picked it otherwise but im happy I watched it.

I thought it was a really good movie. Sweet and a nice feel good to it.

The leads and cast were great too. Although it was set after Christmas day, it was still festive enough.

This is number 36 out of 100 for my 100 Christmas movies before Christmas day challenge with 45 days to go. Can I do this challenge?

This is a good movie and I will watch this again.

The writing was good, the actors (most of them) are talented, the leads have chemistry but then......it fizzles. Who's fault is it when that happens? Director?

The story is interesting enough to get you through to the cute ending but it leaves you with the feeling it could have been much better.

A simple but sweet HOLIDAY LOVE STORY with a heart-warming couple and good chemistry to match.

No hidden Hollywood Agenda, just classic good joyful entertaining that NEVER GETS OLD.

I personally love the trope of best friends falling in love or childhood best friends being in love the whole time and I am always looking out for films and shows with this theme so I was waiting for this to come out eagerly. This film has everything that I want from it but it lacks the main ingredients of chemistry, direction and dialogue delivery which makes a film... A film! I felt like someone just read a book and transferred the great plot of the book onto the screen quiet literally page by page. The male lead did his best but he and his co-star just had no chemistry... I mean for a moment I thought maybe this film is going towards the direction where they both realize that they are better off as best friends. They both looked perfectly happy being best friends if the plot didn't tell me as an audience via every other character that they are meant to be and how much they have always loved each other, I probably would've never known.