Too Close For Christmas
Published December 20, 2025
Film info
- Title Too Close For Christmas
- Director Ernie Barbarash
- Year 2020
- Run time 1hr 30m
- Genres Romance, Drama
- Tagline Finding the right reason to stand still
A woman's feelings start to change when she reluctantly spends Christmas with the man responsible for ending her last relationship.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 0:19 | Chad Michael Murray cornering the market in Christmas movies. |
| 5:31 | “I didn’t want to give you an excuse to turn around and go back to work.” |
| 8:15 | Yea, because granola is super filling… and not a travel snack. |
| 12:31 | These two are not nice characters and even though they are clearly going to end up together, I wish they wouldn’t. |
| 18:41 | CMM wearing good jumpers so far. |
| 23:59 | Loving the enormous to do list! |
| 36:03 | Are they still talking about chestnuts? |
| 46:14 | “Can’t let the pooches down.” Honestly, who wrote this. |
| 51:54 | Cinnamon ribs? Bleurgh. |
| 57:46 | That gremlin alarm clock is terrifying… he made it! |
| 1:10:22 | Why is she listening to other people? He’s literally done nothing wrong. |
| 1:14:30 | They made such a big deal of the mum being ill and she’s seemed fine the whole time. |
| 1:20:42 | It’s slightly crazy to me that people update their voicemail message to be time specific like that. |
Thoughts
This is, objectively, a bad Christmas movie - not really much going on in terms of plot, lots of weird coincidences and that faux romance that is quite hard to believe. But, at the same time, I really enjoyed Chad Michael Murray’s performance in this, it was all over the place, but also quite cute. The script lets all the actors down on many occasions, but he, at least, does a watchable performance with it.
Rating: 2 / 5
