This may have been the first movie to really make me think “You know you’d get fired for that if this was real life, right?” That probably isn’t a good thing…

Brooke (Julianna Guill) is a marketing executive tasked with helping a struggling family winery in her hometown. Tyler (Jon Cor) is the son of the winery owner, who will take over the business one day. Can they save the family business before the Christmas deadline?

Christmas on the Vine is one of those movies that annoys me. While Brooke does do some marketing for the winery, she spends most of her time waxing nostalgic for the Christmas traditions the town had when she was a child. Of course, those memories only exist in the movie to set up the big third act twist. She also spends a lot of time flirting with Tyler. Then when he actually acts on her advances, she turns him down. What the hell, girl. Figure out what you want.

Tyler isn’t much better. He spends a lot of the movie whining about how his family business is closing but when Brooke actually does her job and gives him ideas to bring in new customers or distributors, he shoots them down. His mother has to convince him to actually listen to Brooke.

Oh, and what would Brooke have gotten fired for? There’s a scene where the rival winery owner, Carla (Meredith Baxter), randomly shows up to try to get Tyler to sell her his winery. After Tyler and Brooke shoo her off, Brooke asks Tyler if he’s ready to fight for his business and throws a snowball at him. Who in the world would randomly throw a snowball at their client? Even if it’s supposed to be flirty (spoiler, it is), it’s very unprofessional.

Lifetime really is letting us down this year. I’ll have to try to make a list of terrible Lifetime movies versus terrible Hallmark movies for 2020. Christmas on the Vine definitely falls under terrible Lifetime movies. You might do better if you head over to the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel this year. They seem to be handing out all the good movies.