What if you have a perfect dreamy life with the perfect job, but even after having a successful career, you aren’t satisfied in life due to your unsuccessful love life, and after you return home for Christmas break, you have not one but two suitors interested in you and pursuing your love to make their life perfect?
Well, the recently released perfect romantic comedy Holiday movie by Hallmark titled “A Christmas With A Kiss” follows a similar storyline with Mona, the boss lady living her dream life in terms of profession but having hard luck finding the love of her life.
Well, things change for our female lead after she returns home to celebrate Christmas with her family and has not one but two guys fawning over her and trying to make her fall in love with them, but well, one could fall in love with only one person at a time, so it was quite interesting to witness the man she finally chose.
Produced by Jubba Seyyid, the supporting cast of the film stars Andre Bedard playing Captain Jackson’s role, Jayd Deroché playing Bryan’s role, and JaNae Armogan playing Erin’s role. Released on December 3, 2023, by Hallmark, it is another classic holiday movie that will remind you of Christmas.
At Pemberley Manor, a New York-based event planner visits a small town in hopes of planning a big Christmas. Well, the film has a classic love triangle with the female lead falling for the one who betrayed her in some way and breaking the heart of the one who loved her all along without any doubt just the way she was.
Premise
The film focuses on our protagonist, Mona, and her love story after she returns home to celebrate Christmas with her family, only to run into an ex-boyfriend and a journalist visiting the small town to cover the Christmas carnival organized by Mona’s parents.
The film starts in New York with eleven days remaining for Christmas, and the entire city is lit up in Christmas lights, marking the beginning of the celebrations. Mona, a successful and prominent social media ambassador, anxiously awaits her date to arrive at the restaurant, but he runs late, thus making her wait longer.
When he finally arrives, it is just to inform Mona about him getting back with his former girlfriend. Even though Mona is successful in her career, she feels like a failure due to not having a romantic partner to take home with her to enjoy the Christmas carnival organized by her parents.
This year, the only thing Mona desires is to have a partner to take back home with her, as she believes that once you kiss a guy under the mistletoe, then they will have lasting love. After Mona fails to find a partner to take back home with her, she heads back ten days before Christmas only to run into Fletcher, an old flame of hers, once she arrives in her town, and she is happy after meeting him as he is a handsome lad.
Mona arrives at her family home following her chance encounter with Fletcher, only to find Erin, her sister, who surprises Mona after informing her about their family’s participation in Culture & Lifestyle Magazine’s spread.
Her sister further elaborates about Dez, a reporter covering the carnival organized by their family, and Mona is excited to meet him as she feels an instant attraction towards him due to his being handsome and having a sweet personality.
Well, as everything is going quite well, Mona’s parents drop the bomb on her sister and Mona as they inform the two about their decision to organize the Christmas carnival for the last time as they are too old for the stress, thus indirectly indicating that the two sisters will have to carry the tradition forward.
After a while, Mona starts to date Fletcher but starts to get attracted towards Dez as days go by until she accidentally reads a draft of Dez describing the Christmas carnival organized by her parents, a hatchet job done to commercialize Christmas.
After a confrontation between the two, Dez leaves the following morning, leaving an apology letter and an iPad for Mona that has a link to his coverage story of the Christmas carnival, thus embracing their Christmas festivities.
The film ends with Mona informing her parents about her decision to take over the planning of the Christmas carnival for next year and her reuniting with Dez after she realizes her love for him and dumps Fletcher.
Filming Locations
The filming of the romantic comedy by Hallmark titled “Christmas With A Kiss” started in the early days of October and wrapped up a month from the day of filming, with Canada as the prime location for the filming.
Ontario, Canada
Known for its Algonquin Par, fall colors, and cheese, a province worth visiting in the east-central region of Canada, Ontario was used by the production crew of “Christmas With A Kiss” to film the entire romantic comedy. The populous provincial capital city of Toronto was one of the locations in Canada that was used by the production crew of the romantic comedy to film some parts of the movie.
One last location used by the production crew of “Christmas With A Kiss” was Oakville, which is a large, captivating town along the shoreline of Lake Ontario. The reason behind the crew choosing this location was their historic architecture and boutiques.
