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Moonlight and Mistletoe (2008) (TV)
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29 November 2008 (USA) moreUser Comments:
Annoying more (2 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Candace Cameron Bure | ... | Holly |
 | Tom Arnold | ... | Nick |
 | Christopher Wiehl | ... | Peter |
 | Barbara Niven | ... | Ginny |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Taylor Ampatiellos | ... | Willie |
 | Adam Desautels | ... | Ski Shop Elf |
| Ari Larson | ... | Young Peter |
| Lillian Pritchard | ... | Young Holly |
| Heather Remick | ... | Della Wallace |
 | Kaily Smith | ... | Brenda |
 | Matt Walton | ... | Ben Richards |
| Richard Waterhouse | ... | Mr. Jennings |
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I'm afraid I find the performances in this drama about a man who runs a 365-day-a-year Santa Claus Village that is about to go under (Tom Arnold) and his daughter who moved away (Candace Cameron Bure) rather poor. Tom Arnold is clueless and nasal until the plot calls for a bit of warmth and Miss Bure, while very pretty, is shrill.The other actors are good, but their roles seem to be matters of revealing the secrets that made them come to Santaville for some warm fuzzy moments. In fact, that seems to be the entire set-up of this movie: conflict, then warm fuzzy moment, and the performances make it all seem very calculated.
Even the camera work supports this: consider, if you will, the scene where Tom Arnold and Candace Cameron Bure finally bond. The are sitting at the dining room table, going over his mementos of his dead wife. Instead of shooting it in an extended two-shot, which would have been more difficult to achieve and hence more expensive, but more effective, it is shot in a series of close-up reaction shots: basically, instead of two people together, it winds up two people apart. Using a yellow light for atmosphere does not make up for missed opportunities in the service of a small budget, alas.