The Most Colourful Time of the Year (2022)
As exciting as greyscale can be…not exciting
Michelle is a widowed single mother and optometrist; Ryan is her daughter’s colourblind (not a euphemism) elementary school teacher.
Utterly baffled by this movie. Halfway through the movie and Ryan has yet to show ANY interest in Michelle. Aloof to borderline rude, a 30-something PhD physics teacher has resigned himself to living in a world that exists only in grayscale, even as she works to bring colour into his life - double entendre intended.
Though he doesn’t really factor in too much - the complicating former boyfriend seems like such a skeezeball. As IF he’s believable as an alternative!
I think the best part of this movie is that I was forced to google “Achromatopsia.” Turns out, it’s not easily fixable by some fancy glasses. Nope. This would be more accurate if Ryan was portrayed as totally blind - given how impactful this particular affliction really is. I mean… if you can’t trust Hallmark to guarantee scientific accuracy, what is the world coming to?!? 😂 <- tears are real.
Aside: wondering how I recognize the lead - Katrina Bowden - enter IMBD - she was on 30 Rock for 99 episodes. And now… this. What’s a gal gotta do to get some of that Lorne Michaels magic?!?
Classic Christmas movie tropes:
“Scrooge” who needs to understand the meaning of Christmas
Christmas tree lighting
Carol concert
You’ll like this if…
You have nothing else to do and you have super low expectations for Hallmark movies. Don’t judge them all by this one. I promise, they can be so much better.
SCORE: 2/10
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Ryan is a elementary school teacher, who learns that he is colorblind. Michelle, an optometrist and mother of one of his students, helps bring color into his life in time for the holidays. Starring Katrina Bowdenand Christopher Russell.
