Holiday Mismatch

2024

Comedy / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1147 1.1K

Director

Caroline Labrèche Photo
Caroline Labrèche

Top cast

Rebecca Croll Photo
Rebecca Croll as Yolanda Sharp
Caroline Rhea Photo
Caroline Rhea as Kath Stone
Jon McLaren Photo
Jon McLaren as Shane Harrison
Beth Broderick Photo
Beth Broderick as Barbara
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1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cgvsluis 6 / 10

Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick are great as two moms who are like oil and water forced to work together...and then join forces to breakup their kids.

Newly retired bookkeeper Barbara (Beth Broderick) takes a volunteer job at the community center and is assigned to a committee run by the bohemian Kath (Caroline Rhea). Kath and Barbara clash from the moment they meet, but both love their kids...and end up unintentionally setting them up with each other on an app as a blind date. Their kids, Shane and Lauren, meet as a blind date, then they make a pact to fake date through the holidays to get their mom's off their backs. When the Kath and Barbara figure out that they have set their child up with the other's, they immediately team up to break them up, assuming that they can't be right for each other...only they are.I love both Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick, who are the heart of this film. The message is really about how people are different, and yet often those differences are complimentary. Kath and Barb were not the romantic leads...but they could have been, they held this hallmark holiday film together so well. (I did like the two kids, aka the romantic leads, but really you should watch it for Rhea and Broderick.)
Reviewed by bsuttondc 7 / 10

Fun, but maybe not for everyone

This is a fun movie. My wife laughed out loud at the faces Caroline Rhea made during some of the situations.I was pleasantly surprised that for once, when the main romantic interest characters became upset, it wasn't at each other. They started out as casual acquaintances who devised a plan keep their moms from consuming their time and energy during the holiday. Their romance developed as they got to know each other better. They didn't need major misunderstandings to add drama to the story. Of course for that they had their parents.The one thing that might annoy people with traditional family values was the inclusion of a brother who was introduced at one point with his "husband". Since it added nothing at all to the plot, it seemed like just a gratuitous insertion that some might feel was a subtle bit of social normalization added to placate some special interest production investor. Or something.Overall though, it was a fun movie and a refreshing change from some of the worn-out plot templates we know so well.
Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 6 / 10

It was good...

Needless to say that I was, of course, not familiar with the 2024 Hallmark Christmas movie "Holiday Mismatch" prior to sitting down to watch it as part of my 2024 December Christmas movie marathon. But while I was unfamiliar with the movie, I have to say that seeing Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick on the movie's cover, it did instill some sense of expectation to Hallmark to deliver something worthwhile.Writer Sarah Wise did indeed rise to the challenge and she did deliver an enjoyable and entertaining script and storyline. I have to say that I was genuinely entertained throughout the course of the 84 minutes that the movie ran for.The acting performances in "Holiday Mismatch" were good, and there were some familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick and Jon McLaren. It certainly was nice to see actresses Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick reunited on the screen again. I've always enjoyed seeing them as the aunties in the "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" series from back in the mid-1990s.If you enjoy sappy Christmas movies, then you should take the time to sit down and watch director Caroline Labrèche's 2024 movie. It was a nice movie.My rating of "Holiday Mismatch" lands on a six out of ten stars.
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