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Christmas with a Prince (2018)

Choosing Christmas with a Prince is the equivalent of looking for your wife's Christmas gift at the dollar store: even if you're desperate, it's a bad idea. This holiday romance screws up nearly everything you could, which does occasionally make it unintentionally hilarious. Mostly, it'll make you wonder what else you could be doing with your time.

Handsome Prince Alexander Cavalieri (Nick Hounslow) has broken his leg in a skiing accident. To avoid drawing too much attention, his friend Jeff (Josh Dean) suggests he recover in the pediatric ward at the hospital where he and his half-sister Dr. Tasha Mason (Kaitlyn Leeb) work. She’s not too thrilled about the disturbance his highness brings to the children she so dearly cares about, particularly not during the Christmas season.

This movie feels like it was cranked out in a week, with a script that was written during the Monday's morning. The performances are terrible, with Kaitlyn Leeb sticking out as the worst of the bunch. She’s playing the main character. You know you’re in trouble immediately. What’s doubly hilarious about this casting is that her "brother" couldn’t look more unrelated to her if he was a Martian, so the script throws in a quick line about how they’re half-siblings. Were they so good together they couldn’t just recast?

Or maybe they kept Leeb because she had such good chemistry with her love interest? Definitely not. The film's romance is so badly executed it’s like it was an afterthought instead of the main feature. The conflict preventing them from getting together is trivial: Tasha and Alexander went to the same school (20+ years ago?). She was 16, asked him out, he was 18 and said no. Now she thinks he’s taken a bed in her department to spite and embarrass her. There’s no reason they shouldn't fall in each other's arms - assuming they’d want to - once this is cleared up. You keep expecting something like an arranged marriage, a psycho ex-girlfriend/boyfriend that will sabotage the union, or royal/professional obligations to come provide an obstacle. They’re nowhere in sight… until the last minute when these concepts are introduced and then disposed of so quickly you wonder why anyone even bothered.

Christmas with a Prince gets the main points wrong, which means the details stand no chance. Alexander (who is sold as spoiled and bratty, but really isn't) befriends a sick little kid (Nick Hounslow). This wannabe Tiny Tim is delightfully poorly written. He tells Alexander his mother works far away, that she can’t make it in time to support him during his life-saving surgery. Instead, he will listen to his favorite song on a loop at the same time as her so they can be close together. His favorite song? A cover of Jingle Bells by Genevieve Fisher. Unless the kid’s got a tumor the size of a grapefruit in his head (which can’t be the case, as his post-surgery recovery time is less than a half-hour), that’s either a lie or a mistake. I swear I saw the same little girl cutting the same green piece of paper into a snowflake for three days. Whenever a conflict arises in the office, the Prince’s father, King Edward (Charles Shaughnessy) appears on one of the innumerable TVs on the wall to tell the doctor to cool her jets. How he can have a conversation when none of these TVs are equipped with microphones and cameras, I don’t know. Why is a 40+-year-old man is still listening to his father like he’s a teen? Bad writing.

Christmas with a Prince fills you with shame. It’s so low budget the elaborate gowns look like something rented out of a marching school band, the characters are so unsuccessfully defined it can’t even get the kind of drama that just crawled out of the primordial pool right. The music is all stock, the actors, lousy, the dialogue clunky, the romance forced. I had a blast, knowing full well that everyone else watching would be tempted to shut it off seconds in. (December 18, 2020)

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