24/25
The locations that served as the Higman family's store and Norma and Nick's BBQ restaurant are family owned shops in real life too
Narrative
Alana Higman, a die-hard Kansas City Chiefs fan and her family are competing to win the team's Fan of the Year contest, in a process judged by Derrick, director of fan engagement.. Get your fill of happily-ever -after with this year's lineup of holiday-themed romantic movies to watch from the comfort of home on the historic Independence Square in Independence, Missouri.
Also, I am very much not a Chiefs fan
The Square also does a Christmas lighting like the one in the film. updates in every commercial break in the movie preceding this.
For me they are the current Evil Empire of the NFL
(Actually they have some very upstanding players and I use the term evil as hyperbole.) But once again I am faced with my obsession to watch every Christmas movie premiere on at least 5 channels.I enjoyed this movie. It was different enough from the usual stuff and there may have been snow, but no snowball fights or many of the other checklist items for a Christmas movie.
Hynes was his usual steady but laid back self
Tyler Hynes and Hunter King have very good chemistry, almost what I sometimes call sizzling. The story hooked me first with the quest to win the fan contest and then looking at the outcome of the obstacle near the end.I thought the acting was a little mixed.
Given that, I had mixed feelings about the ending, especially after the buildup of the backstory
King's character had attractive qualities but also some neurosis especially in her total obsession with the superstition. (I realize that these feelings are somewhat contradictory.)As I said, not a Chiefs fan, so I didn't recognize many of the cameos, but there seemed to be a few.