The Christmas Setup | Blogmas Day 16
It's Blogmas day 16! This film was on the Lifetime Movies website. Not only did it look interesting, but I haven't seen enough gay Christmas movies in my life, so it's always nice to be able to add them to the Blogmas list. When Hugo (Ben Lewis) and his best friend Madelyn (Ellen Wong) go back to Hugo's hometown for Christmas, he finds that his mother (Fran Drescher) is trying to set him up with old classmate Patrick (Blake Lee). The description is quite straightforward, although it does seem to suggest that not much happens, and unfortunately, it is right. Not a lot happens in this film. The two leads are cute, and have good chemistry (they're married in real life, which might help), but neither of the characters have enough personality to carry the film. It feels like the story never really gets going - we are waiting for something to happen and nothing ever really does. Ultimately the film was a bit boring, which is saying something considering there are about ...