Hey, Lifetime. If you are going to call your movie Dancing Through The Snow, I’m expecting dancing. And I will be very disappointed if there is no dancing.

Michael (Colin Lawrence) is a single dad to daughter, Lily (Bianca Lawrence). When he begins dating Lily’s ballet teacher, Olivia (AnnaLynne McCord), Lily has a difficult time emotionally dealing with her father’s first relationship after her mother’s death.

At it’s core, this movie wants to be about the relationship between a father and daughter after the death of the family matriarch. After all, that is why they cast a real life father and daughter in the roles of Michael and Lily, right? Unfortunately, Dancing Through The Snow doesn’t really connect the way it should. Bianca doesn’t have the acting experience to be able to fully bring Lily to life. As a result, her character is very flat. She acts the same way whether Lily is supposed to be happy or sad or jealous. It makes it difficult for the audience to think she’s nothing more than a brat. And, sadly, the main plot of the movie kinda revolves around her.

My second big problem with the movie is that the title implies there will be dancing. There is a little bit of dancing - a video of Lily and Michael dancing to the Nutcracker Suite goes viral, we see Olivia doing some stretching, and at the very end of the movie, two firefighters do a little bit of dancing with two young girls dressed as ballerinas. Oh, and Michael and Olivia slow-dance in her studio with their outside shoes on. (Hey, networks, take a note - DO NOT WEAR OUTSIDE SHOES ON DANCE FLOORS.) That is the entirety of the dancing in the movie. Hallmark did a much better job last year with Christmas Waltz. Do better, Lifetime.

I went into this movie wanting to like it and it highly disappointed me. You would do better watching last year’s Christmas Waltz on Hallmark or the Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker documentary on Netflix. Leave Dancing Through The Snow off your Christmas list. It is not worth watching.