The Spirit of Christmas

It's the week of Thanksgiving and Christmas decor and music are already everywhere you turn. Most years I am pretty stubborn about not letting Christmas sneak in before Thanksgiving is properly celebrated but this year I am making some exceptions. The first of which is starting on my terribly cheesy Christmas rom-coms a little early.

The first on the list this year is The Spirit of Christmas. It's probably one of the more interesting and dynamic Christmas romance tales I've seen in the last few years. The show begins with Kate, a slightly exaggerated Boston lawyer who has no relationship with her family and is the worst girlfriend of all time. She's married to her job and as you can probably guess, something in the movie is going to totally transform her. Because if there's one thing we know about this type of movie it's that there will be a happy ending and the main character will be a different person by the time it's finished. Funny how love supposedly fixes all of your personality flaws.

The Spirit of Christmas begins with the mysterious murder of a ridiculously good looking young man in the 1920's. Every year the eternally young Daniel returns to the inn he owned 12 days before Christmas to 'have his solitude'. His plans are turned upside down by Kate who comes to get the inn appraised for sale. After a few days of bickering between Kate and Daniel and with the help of the non-essential-but-still-in-the-movie-for-some-reason property care-taker everyone starts to soften and they determine a plan to release Daniel from his purgatory of returning to the inn every year.

Token scenes include tree decorating, family heirloom gift giving, and shirtless man ironing. I do like that this show keeps you guessing about how it will end. There are some obvious story points but there are some that you'd never guess- mostly because the way they're resolved doesn't make any sense. If you don't think about the ending too much you'll love this movie.

If I were to rate this movie on a 10-point scale and only compare it to other movies in this genre I would give it a solid 8. If I rate it compared to all other movies in the world I would give it about a 4.5. The Spirit of Christmas is available to stream on Netflix.

What is first on your list of horrible holiday movies to watch this year?

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