Thursday, December 25, 2025

2025 - A KELLER CHRISTMAS VACATION - A Hallmark holiday film (what else)?

The typical Hallmark Christmas love story gets a little bit make that a very little bit of a spin with on location filming in Germany.  Usually these films are filmed in Canada on phony sets dressed up to look like it's been snowing when in reality it's just white blankets covering the ground to simulate snow.

In this film Keller Mom and Dad have persuaded their grown children to accompany them on a Christmas river cruise.  Each of the children have some sort of relationship issue.  Brother Cal is a coach of some kind who is dealing with a breakup.  Sister Emory has to deal with a breakup and the loss of her job.  Finally brother number two Dylan is in a relationship with a doctor he has proposed to but has turned him down.  Dylan is bummed out about this and trying to understand what happened to their relationship but he makes time for the river cruise.  In a rare appearance by a couple who aren't heterosexual, Dylan and his partner are gay.

 

Well needless to say there's lots of romance.  Brother Cal meets a woman on the cruise who is celebrating Christmas with her grandfather.  Will there be a romantic Christmas connection?  Sister Emory meets the cute cruise director on this cut rate love boat and sparks fly.  Dylan's significant other shows up with a big family secret he has been keeping which will rock the very foundations of the family.

This film has lots of humor throughout the running time mostly at the expense of unsurprisingly gay Dylan.  Hallmark may have been brave to include a gay couple in this film but they didn't have a problem making him the buffoon of most of their dumb humor.

 

Honestly this is not one of the worst Christmas films I have seen this year,  I'll leave that to the incredibly stupid She's Making A List about a company that spies on children for Santa Claus to see if they have been naughty or nice.  Fortunately I slept through a lot of it.

A Keller Christmas Vacation was written by Tracy Andreen , the running time is 84 minutes. 

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