She immediately butts heads with the lodge owner’s son, Brady. Bure’s character Stephanie is, of course, a determined businesswoman with plans to rebuild the mom-and-pop Snow Valley Lodge. “Let it Snow” puts a Hallmark and Christmas spin on the enemies to lovers trope. And, of course, they both find opportunities for romance. Both Hallmark cliches are present in “Switched for Christmas.” One of the Bure twins is a single mom in a small town and the other is an overworked businesswoman in the city. She plays a set of twins who decide to give each other’s lives a try - they switch places “Parent Trap” style. You get double the Candace Cameron Bure in this movie. Her decision came with its fair share of backlash after she declared the Great American Family network would focus on “traditional marriage” in its movies, per the Deseret News, which she issued a long apology for.Īlthough Bure will no longer star in films on the Hallmark network, her movies will live on.īelow is a ranking of Bure’s best Christmas movies on the Hallmark network, and a look at her first movie on Great American Family - does it compare to Hallmark fan favorites? 1. In September, Bure told told Variety why she made the decision to transition to the Great American Family network. But, after 30 movies with the network known for its cheesy Christmas romance movies, the star was ready to move on, as reported by the Deseret News. As a Hallmark Christmas movie fan, you would be hard-pressed to watch the channel without an appearance from the “Full House” star, crowned the “Christmas Queen” by the network. The film was an "Official Selection" at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.Candace Cameron Bure spent 13 years on the Hallmark Channel before deciding to part ways with the network this year. At the Deauville Film Festival, it received a nomination for Grand Special Prize, 2000. The Variety reviewer Lael Loewenstein wrote: "Smarter and more appealing than many other recent romantic comedies." Elvis Mitchell in The New York Times wrote: "The film's naïveté makes up for its rampant predictability." Accolades Īt the AFI Fest, 1999, Let It Snow won awards for Best New Writing (Kipp Marcus) and Best Editing ( Joe Klotz). Part of the movie was filmed at the Marcus' mother's house in Westport, Connecticut. After meeting with Kipp she accepted the part. Kipp had wanted Bernadette Peters for the role of his mother, Elise, but when her agent said that she was too busy, he sent her the entire script via fax. Kipp asked movie studios for their short-ends (unused film) at a cheap price to have enough film to shoot in 35mm.Ĭasting Peters and Marcus on set Stephen Colbert as "happy successful guy"īrothers Adam and Kipp Marcus comprise the writing, producing and directing team behind this independent film, and Kipp also appears as the male lead.Ultimately James overcomes the family curse and wins Sarah. She spends her time with a series of lovers who don't speak English, in the "International House of Boyfriends". His eccentric mother Elise (Bernadette Peters), still upset that her husband left her and James, is on an endless search for her inner self and has commitment issues of her own. Over the next few years, James searches for his true self, ending up at "The CIA" – the Culinary Institute of America. His grandmother (Judith Malina) had warned him about the family curse, that the "men always leave and the women go crazy", which causes James to be reluctant to commit. James, however, has commitment issues, and Sarah eventually winds up engaged to Peter (Peter Giles). James Ellis (Kipp Marcus) meets and falls in love with Sarah (Alice Dylan) during time off for snow days while in high school. The film was released by Artistic License on Jto mixed reviews. He is haunted by the family "curse"-as told to him by his grandmother-that the men in the family are doomed. The story involves a young man who finds love during "snow days" time off from high school, but spends years finding his true self. The film stars Marcus, Alice Dylan, Bernadette Peters, Larry Pine, Henry Simmons, Judith Malina, and Miraim Shor. Let It Snow (also known as Snow Days) is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Adam Marcus and written and produced by Kipp Marcus.
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