I really liked this movie despite Fran Drescher once again playing her droning, nasally, annoying Nanny character in yet another television production.
Hugo (Ben Lewis) is a big shot New York attorney who travels to visit his mother (Fran Drescher) and super hunky brother (Chad Connell) for the Christmas holiday. Hugo meets Patrick (Blake Lee), an acquaintance from high school. Patrick is a 30-something techie who created and sold an app which allowed him to retire. In other words, Patrick is so loaded that he no longer needs to work and can now just help his father sell Christmas trees at a tree lot.
Hugo and Patrick start clocking time together while also exchanging some suggestive and pretty juvenile banter: "I'll just grab the bottom", "you comin?'" and "could you grab those balls". Insert eye rolls here. It kind of reminded me of those tired Samantha Jones lines from "Sex snd the City" that just weren't funny and aged even worse over the years. Still, in grand Lifetime fashion, they proceed to fall hard for one another.
Without giving away too much, when Hugo is finally offered his heavily sought after promotion in London, it's difficult to believe that Richie Rich (aka the financially independent, 30-something retiree who volunteers at Dad's Christmas tree lot and could live anywhere in the world) wouldn't uproot his own life to continue his relationship with Hugo and/or, at least, fly his techie jet (come on, you know that he can afford one) across the pond every couple of weeks to visit. Instead, he wants Hugo to give up his promotion, as well as abandon his big city New York/London legal career and stay in Milwaukee. That's right, Milwaukee.
Other than that, I really did like it.
Hugo (Ben Lewis) is a big shot New York attorney who travels to visit his mother (Fran Drescher) and super hunky brother (Chad Connell) for the Christmas holiday. Hugo meets Patrick (Blake Lee), an acquaintance from high school. Patrick is a 30-something techie who created and sold an app which allowed him to retire. In other words, Patrick is so loaded that he no longer needs to work and can now just help his father sell Christmas trees at a tree lot.
Hugo and Patrick start clocking time together while also exchanging some suggestive and pretty juvenile banter: "I'll just grab the bottom", "you comin?'" and "could you grab those balls". Insert eye rolls here. It kind of reminded me of those tired Samantha Jones lines from "Sex snd the City" that just weren't funny and aged even worse over the years. Still, in grand Lifetime fashion, they proceed to fall hard for one another.
Without giving away too much, when Hugo is finally offered his heavily sought after promotion in London, it's difficult to believe that Richie Rich (aka the financially independent, 30-something retiree who volunteers at Dad's Christmas tree lot and could live anywhere in the world) wouldn't uproot his own life to continue his relationship with Hugo and/or, at least, fly his techie jet (come on, you know that he can afford one) across the pond every couple of weeks to visit. Instead, he wants Hugo to give up his promotion, as well as abandon his big city New York/London legal career and stay in Milwaukee. That's right, Milwaukee.
Other than that, I really did like it.