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6.2/10
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When a Princess escapes her entourage to explore New York City over Christmas, she meets a young man who shows the beautiful stranger his side of the city.When a Princess escapes her entourage to explore New York City over Christmas, she meets a young man who shows the beautiful stranger his side of the city.When a Princess escapes her entourage to explore New York City over Christmas, she meets a young man who shows the beautiful stranger his side of the city.
Alessandro Miro
- Shifty Man
- (as Al Miro)
Drew Ray Tanner
- Concierge
- (as Drew Tanner)
- Director
- James Head(attached)
- Writer
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- TriviaGreg Evigan (George) is the father of Briana Evigan (Katie) in real life.
- GoofsThe movie starts with a stock NYC December footage. Then you see Theresa and young Katie inside Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel. They soon go out, and you can see a lot of beautiful green bushes, plants and deciduous trees with a bit of faux snow on the sidewalk. The movie jumps 20 years, and again the same scene at Sheraton Hotel and yet again outside of hotel just 5 days before Christmas, again a lot of green bushes, plants and deciduous trees. Furthermore, movie used a lot of December NYC stock footage, and almost every time after it there was a scene in city or in the front of Jack and Emma's house with a lot of green bushes, plants and deciduous trees. Of course, green trees in the mid of December in NYC is impossible, so movie was probably shot in September. And there is more - the final scene takes place in Romania on Christmas Day, and yet again in the town center there were a lot of green bushes, plants and deciduous trees just sprayed with faux snow.
- ConnectionsReferences It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- SoundtracksDeck the Halls
(uncredited)
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Good relationship building
I might have rated this at 7, but it's one of my wife's favorites, so that earns it an extra star. I don't tend to rate movies against other genres, but within their own. So my 10 in a Christmas romance doesn't mean I regard it in the same league as an excellent feature film, but against other films of its type. So in these Christmas romances, if I find something I like in a movie, it gets more than a 5, and progressively higher the more I find to recommend it.
The member who named their review with a nod to Roman Holiday amused me. This story isn't really close, but there is a tiny connection in theme, as a princess gets bored and frustrated with her regimented schedule and goes walkabout in Manhattan.
This story puts the lead characters together for most of the movie, and that helps sell how they become closer to each other. The secondary plot about the reporter chasing the story of the "Runaway Princess" adds some tension.
The leads are both likeable and the story holds my interest, so I can recommend the film.
The member who named their review with a nod to Roman Holiday amused me. This story isn't really close, but there is a tiny connection in theme, as a princess gets bored and frustrated with her regimented schedule and goes walkabout in Manhattan.
This story puts the lead characters together for most of the movie, and that helps sell how they become closer to each other. The secondary plot about the reporter chasing the story of the "Runaway Princess" adds some tension.
The leads are both likeable and the story holds my interest, so I can recommend the film.
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- Oct 25, 2022
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- Bran Castle, Bran, Brasov, Romania(final kiss)
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