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TV host Kate (Lily Brown Griffiths) intervews young and good-looking writer Callum (Takaya Honda) and immediately falls for him, so much so that she tries to throw herself on to him at every opportunity. Callum feels flattered of course, but falls for, of all people, for Kate's best friend Linda (HaiHa Le), quite fittingly a book store owner, who falls for him as well. The two though think they've found the perfect man for Kate, Callum's brother Austin (Damien Sato), a cancer survivor still terribly weakened from his chemotherapy, and their scheme to get the two of them together is to invite her over to his to read for him as his eyes are still somewhat blurry from treatment. The plan works, too, as the two are perfect for one another and gtow fonder of one another by the minute - until they find a box full of loveletters written wither by Callum and Austin's mum (Susan Ling Young) or their dad (Lex Marinos) and an unidentified person, so they buys figure either their mum or dad has an affair and Callum sneaks after them - to find out their both seeing someone - and with a big Christmas dinner right round the corner, chaos is almost guaranteed ...

This being a Christmas movie, one can only commend this movie for not going straight for genre clichées (apart from the perfectly predic table happy ending), not overloading the soundtrack with tired Crhistmas music and not relying on the typical red-green-.white-gold colour scheme or using too many vicual hints to the season. Instead this film comes across as a sometimes pretty amusing comedy of errors, carried by a likeable cast and a suitably subtle directorial effort. All of this might not make this movie exactly the re-invention of the wheel, but sweet entertainment at least.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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