Mistletoe Ranch

2022

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 225 225

Director

Rhiannon Bannenberg Photo
Rhiannon Bannenberg

Top cast

Charles Allen Photo
Charles Allen as Charlie
Andrea Moor Photo
Andrea Moor as Ivy
Jordi Webber Photo
Jordi Webber as James Hunt
Steven Cragg Photo
Steven Cragg as Photographic assistant
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826.4 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 1
1.66 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by adamjohns-42575 6 / 10

A lot to criticise, but not the worst of these films.

Mistletoe Ranch/Christmas On Mistletoe Farm (2022) -With so much apathy and the bigger problems going on in the world it's getting harder and harder to find an escape with these films and believe that people can really get that upset about Christmas Party's being cancelled, especially when the person in question hadn't even been home in ages. I can barely organise my family to come for dinner on the day so keeping a tradition like a grand ranch party alive would be a near impossibility. Some things end! Perhaps a refreshing change would be if they stormed home to complain and realised that the party WAS a bad idea?And one of the things missing from this film was the inclusion of the community that they supposedly did it for. The focus was too much on the fight between Aimée (Mercy Cornwall) returning home after a long time away and James (Jordi Webber) who had been keeping the place running the best that he could. Although a 4 year old blind and deaf child could see how to save that ranch.At least one solution to their financial problems was glaringly obvious and so stupid that it wasn't mentioned or acted upon earlier except for a one liner thrown in to plant the seed. And there were a lot of other bits that stood out as foreshadowing too. However I have to admit that not everything went as I had expected.It was also not easy to believe that the other person thought cancelling a party would make a huge difference to the finances and not actually be a way to try to turn things around or at least relieve some of the pressures faced by the ranch hands.Initially I thought that James was attractive and even without his slightly Grinch-like attitude there was just something smarmy about him. At times I wasn't sure that I really saw him as somebody that belonged on a ranch anyway. He wasn't always awkward, but just some times he looked like he should be stripping with 'The Chippendales' instead of being out on the sticks with a small child to raise. Ultimately I did warm to him as he thawed too, but it wasn't until the end that I became invested enough to care if he got together with Aimée.The story was all just a bit too familiar.And once again I thought that it was far too late to be rescuing an event that had already been cancelled. For example Aimée sent the invites out way after they'd already started creating the staging area more days before what turned out to be a rather lacklustre celebration. And there was no way that she could make a Christmas Cake that would be that good in just a week. That was where the community element and a slightly larger cast was needed to support her and the concept, because the end result was all about her budding renewed romance with James and it made all the fuss about her storming home to save the party seem a rather over the top reaction for what it ended up being. Especially for someone who seemed to have checked out and got on with their lives a long time before.My only other notes were that it was a shame that the tree and mistletoe were clearly fake with it being set on such a beautiful location it really jarred against it. I also didn't buy that James and Sage (Ellie Popov) had ever been married.I did like the old Cowboy Charlie (Charles Allen) though but I might have liked to have seen more from him, maybe he could have been ill or finding love, but I supposed that was more of the same too.It was well produced and even the sickly child wasn't too treacly. And it was nice that those that sung could actually sing for a change. And actually by the time the film finished I did feel that I'd enjoyed it. Perhaps I have just seen so many that a change in the formula that concentrated on their connection without getting distracted by the party was not what I had expected and might need time for me to digest. In that case though they could have just had her come home because the ranch was failing and not bothered about the shindig.I think that I'd had a preconceived idea that it would be bad because the concept was old and tired, but it was sweet, simple and inoffensive.By the end I had decided it wasn't the worst, but I would have loved to have seen the same cast with a better, fresher story.6.48/10.
Reviewed by frukuk 1 / 10

Mistletoe and wine

I guess this is intended to be an uplifting Christmas film, showing how people can come together to overcome adversity. But I'm afraid it just didn't work -- at least not for me.

The ranch is supposed to be in serious financial difficulties and yet no one seems to be in any way stressed out by this. And so much wine is consumed, it seems like money is actually no object. (It may be that, being filmed in Australia, the filmmakers considered wine to be a readily available low cost staple.)

Mercy Cornwall gives an enthusiastic performance as Aimee, but Jordi Webber is rather lacklustre as James. It all feels rather emotionally flat and I found it hard to care what happened to any of the characters or, indeed, to the ranch.

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