It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

A rehashed Christmas story. Jaded entertainment reporter doesn't like Christmas and thinks her fiancé, played by Property Brother Drew Scott, is cheating on her with a reality star. So she goes for a drive in "upstate New York", filmed like most of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies somewhere in Canada. She has a car accident and runs into a judges fence. If this sounds familiar you must remember Doc Hollywood. She is sentenced to 25 hours community service. The movie is predictable to a fault but for some reason people like that in a Christmas movie. Myself included. The beautiful Anna Lynn McCord stars and does a good job with the script she has to work with.