Watch: A Christmas in Vermont 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Riley Thomas (Abigail Hawk) is a rising star at one of the world’s most noted holding companies. With Christmas fast approaching, she is sent to the small town of Chestnut, Vermont to evaluate the assets of one of their companies, an outerwear clothing manufacturer. As she begins making plans for liquidation, she hires the company’s founder, Nick (Howard Hesseman)-now retired-as her apprentice to help. Of course, everyone assumes she’s there to save the company and she keeps her true motives a secret. In the process, she comes to appreciate what the company means to the small town; and she falls in love with its youthful CEO, Wyatt (David O’Donnell). She slowly comes to embrace the small town’s values and even helps create a new product line just in time for Christmas. As her priorities change and her love grows, will Riley be able to stand up to her boss, Preston Bullock (Chevy Chase) and save the company she was supposed to destroy?.
Plot: Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing profit targets. Riley finds that the company is the lifeblood of a town and, instead of closing down the iconic firm, she unexpectedly falls in love and learns valuable lessons beyond the bottom line.
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Charming But Poorly Written and Acted
Cold corporate city chick Riley, ventures out to quaint Vermont to shut down a company that makes outerwear and learns the value of having a heart. During this festive time we get a lot of these types of heart tugging propaganda. To remind those who lost the spirit of Christmas to re-visit good will towards people. Especially in a time where most towns are devastated by big business coldly killing off American labor. This time it’s an outerwear company, thinly disguised for Patagonia. Abigail Hawk, as Riley, is atrocious. Sorry Abby, as Nicole Kidman doll-like as she is, her constant mugging as she delivers dialogue wouldn’t be the problem if it weren’t that it is incongruous to what she is saying. She persistently chooses the wrong facial expression in every scene. It’s laughable. A perfect example of cold city fish earns a heart is better shown in “Curly Sue.” Kelly Lynch is a much better stoic raider whose eventual arc has a heartwarming bend. It may also be the writing. As a very straightforward template..it’s fine but boy, does it struggle to shoehorn exposition everywhere. The lines are corny and flat and…chuckling at your own jokes doesn’t make the audience endear themselves to you if the dialogue is bad. It’s bad. Meanwhile, the “love interest” Wyatt is a Patrick Dempsey standin who isn’t all that charming. With as much energy as the great Howard Hesseman can muster, this is a flat check for him, a throwaway Morgan Fairchild and a (clearly bored) Chevy Chase. One wonders if this isn’t the real Chase. He plays an obnoxious president/founder of a corporate raider company. These old SNL guys dig that role. Bill Murray in “Scrooged” comes to mind. Anyway, this incredibly bland movie gets a lump of coal. Sorry guys, director Fred Olan Ray seems to have choked the life from an already tired plot. And you can find better Hallmark movies out there. This seems to have been slapped together within a week.
Generic remake
Like many Christmas movies this is an old plot being dusted off and trotted out with a different cast. This feels like the discount store version when you compare it to 2009’s New in Town.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 26 min (86 min)
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Rated TV-PG
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Fred Olen Ray
Writer Jeffrey Schenck, Peter Sullivan, Michael Varrati
Actors Abigail Hawk, Chevy Chase, David O’Donnell
Country United States
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Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 16:9 HD
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