Don't listen to the negative reviews

disgusting, overrated, pointless

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

It is magical and fun. Love this movie from start to finish. Absolutely love the Alicia Witt character. The movie focuses on how Alice and Matt are meant to be together. So many memorable lines and scenes. Matt tells of his ex girlfriend "she wasn't even willing to get wet for me". The exact time his grandpa saw his grandmother for the first time. The Christmas game they play around the tree. So much niceness. This is the movie that hooked me on contemporary Christmas movies. I crown Alicia Witt as the queen and this was her first and best. Love Susan Hogan as the mom and Lawrence Dane as the grandpa.Very surprised of the 17 reviews already posted only 4 were excellent. Stand up for "Happily Ever After" and give this one an excellent review.

This is the third time I watched this movie in less than a year. This movie is all about symbols, but I think I missed some of them the first two times. It's true that some of these are not done as subtly as perhaps they should have been and may even come off as clumsy, but I still loved it.Alice is all about tradition and family and romance and especially about Christmas and nostalgia. For this woman, giving up the symbol that represents her father is like cutting off her arm. And she revels in the chance to share Christmas, to decorate the tree, to make Christmas cookies.I won't try to say that Alicia Witt is the greatest actress in the world, but she does have a lot of talents. I think her facial expressions are one of those talents. I could watch them all day. And her laugh is overpowering and to some may be fake, but I think it is just gusto. I love it. Her acting in this movie is solid. Her chemistry with Mark Wiebe is just incredible in this film. In so many romance movies you wonder how the main characters could fall in love so quickly, but in this film you can see these two are just two parts of one whole and time is irrelevant.I have only two very slight complaints about this movie. My first is how could Alice and Will ever have thought they belonged together, much less thought they were in love? They have anti-chemistry. Not that Will is a villain boyfriend, especially at the start of the movie. But it is clear they aren't on the same page and Will has no idea who Alice is. Maybe, as she says, she even forgot herself. Besides, without the relationship, over half the story would be gone.The second is that I really wish we could have seen more of Alice with Matt's family, and less of her with Will's. All of the time with Matt and his family was heartwarming and enjoyable. The time spent with Will's was discouraging, and I really believe that not so much of it was needed to make the point.

This is a nice film to watch however you know how it will end by getting there is lots of fun and the film doesn't overdue the schmaltz.A beautiful antique store owner, Alice Chapman (Alicia Witt), travels to her fiancé's home town alone to meet her future in-laws for the first time at their Christmas gathering. Her fiancé, (A successful commercial real estate agent) Will Mitchum (Scott Gibson), tells her he will join them after closing an important business deal. Upon her arrival at the airport, she discovers that her luggage is lost. While completing the necessary paperwork, she meets Matt Mitchum (Mark Wiebe), who is also filling out a missing luggage report. She is surprised to learn that Matt is the brother of her fiancé "Billy". On their way to the family house, they get into a car accident and both end up in the hospital, where Alice learns that Matt broke off his engagement to a woman who refused to "walk through the rain" for him.This is well made. The last scene however seemed like it was added on because the film ran short. It was not needed. However the film does get right on how family is important to Alice.When these pops up watch it.

This is another Hallmark Christmas movie that I did not find appealing the first time I saw it. It started off interesting...and was good up until a certain point. But eventually, "Alice" increasingly behaved too immature for a grown woman, especially one that was about to be married...and to a high-power, wealthy exec at that....Wearing her little light blue hoodie and her "little girl" hairstyle...and the way she consumed her milk and cookies...made her look like a 14 year old, with the eating habits of a 4 year old. Then "Matt" attempted to wipe off her little mouth........."Matt" was continuously over-bearing...always explaining the "Mitchum's" traditions as soon as they entered the house about mom's decor...to grandpa this and that ("Right, grandpa?"..."Right, grandpa?")...to grandma "was a real fox." (<--very odd!) The entire family was over-bearing........Be that as it may, repeats made it seem better than a lot of other Hallmark's Christmas movies. It's more tolerable.