This is one of worst Hallmark movies ever. If anyone involved in this production had enthusiasm for it, it must have been the caterer, because it sure was not the actors, director, or the writer. (Note to Hallmark: during a writers' strike hire scabs to cross the picket line that have graduated from kindergarten.) I understand that Hallmark movies follow a prescribed formula, but that does not mean that the script has to wallow in the ruts and seldom come up for air. If most of the characters were portrayed any more woodenly, their noses would grow when they lie. I think I heard the director's snores behind the monotones of hackneyed dialog. If you want to feel like you have wasted six hours, watch this hour and half home movie.

As soon as Hallmark released the ultra-cute poster for Friends and Family Christmas, I was dying to see it. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a disjointed dud with scenes of one female always running to work and the other babysitting the former's parents.

Their one-on-one moments, albeit brief are gold and I wanted more of that not just thirty seconds here and there before they run-off in opposite directions.

I'm sort of bummed they didn't give us the Hallmark princess moment of Dani walking down the stairs all gussied up, and Amelia turns and and she's speechless. No. They meet on the stairs as Amelia turns around from talking with a co-worker?.

In all honesty, I'm unsure how they started liking one another. They're rarely together. They don't decorate the tree they buy. They don't make holiday crafts despite Dani dragging Amelia to these events. Instead, Amelia is doing all of this with Dani's parents, while she's running around like a chicken with her head cut off.

I took off stars because I fell asleep twice and finally made it through the third attempt.