Oy to the World!

2025

Action / Drama

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 585 585

Director

Paula Elle Photo
Paula Elle

Top cast

Wayne Corbeil Photo
Wayne Corbeil as Member of Congregation
Stellina Rusich Photo
Stellina Rusich as Elaine Cowen
Brooke D'Orsay Photo
Brooke D'Orsay as Nikki
Jake Epstein Photo
Jake Epstein as Josh
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773.07 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 8
1.4 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gfrasmd 5 / 10

Boy, what a world!

I suspect the story would have developed better if this had been a romantic movie on its own, without the holiday dressing. Jake Epstein and Brooke D'Orsay have reasonable chemistry and share a few sweet moments. Yet, Hallmark had to fill their goal to enter their yearly Hanukkah themed production in the 2025 lineup. The results are half-baked. While the intentions are good in proposing universal love, a message shared by both Christmas and Hanukkah, and portray a commendable sense of community and good will, the execution is somewhat superficial. Characters feel stereotyped and a bit shallow. The message promotes unity by secularizing the true spiritual meaning of both Holidays, diluting their religious soul. The action runs a quivering balance between seriousness and farce, alternating solid, even endearing moments, with lots of unconvincing or childish scenes. In summary, a decent movie that wanted to be uplifting, yet misses most of the marks and leaves you confused, rather than elated.
Reviewed by MickyG333 7 / 10

Music and mixing

7.4 stars.This is a movie about mixing two religions over the holidays. The woman celebrates Christmas and the man Hanukkah. They were friends in high school, but they always got on each others nerves. Now they are at it again, both leading the choir for a musical and they mix both religions into one and fall in love.It's a somewhat different movie from most, but I found it endearing. I think both actors were great and so were the family moments -- two families clashing, but not too much.Not one I'll watch again anytime soon, but it would do fine in a pinch.
Reviewed by astein-imdb 2 / 10

Removed the Joy and Added lots of Oy

Where to even start. It's great that Hallmark is trying to represent Chanukah in its annual Christmas set of movies, and I actually look forward to the annual Chanukah movie, thus actually watching it on the release day. But this year's offering is awful and borderline offensive. And of course includes all the standard Hallmark cliches to boot.Boy meets girl, girl doesn't like boy, boy doesn't like girl, they're mean to each other, then they fall in love. There's also boy returns home from the big city to find love at last.But the real problem with this movie is it totally trivializes Chanukah as if it's Christmas but in Blue and White. You can't merge Chanukah and Christmas, like they're cake and pie. Instead of a delicious dessert, you'd get something like Rachel's beef trifle. I suspect the idea is to show people of different religions coming together to be supportive of each other, but asking Jewish children to sing about "Christ the Lord" is the epitome of NOT understanding about different faiths.It's not a sweet story, it's a mildly offensive one in which any Jewish mother would exclaim "oy" at almost every scene and plot twist.Oy vey is right. Hallmark, do better.
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