To be honest, I was expecting the female lead to be named Noelle. Thankfully, naming Nantucket Noel after the location’s Christmas festival was a better decision.

Christina (Sarah Power) owns a toy store on the wharf of Nantucket Island. Oscar Bittlesman (Bruce Dawson) has purchased the property to develop in memory of his late wife. When Oscar’s son, Andy (Trevor Donovan), and granddaughter, Wink (Payton Lepinski), arrive for the holidays, Christina’s world is turned upside down. The wharf is where her mother first opened the toy store but the building is falling apart. Falling in love with Andy doesn’t make her disagreement with Oscar any easier. Will she be forced to give up her mother’s legacy?

File another movie into the “Just OK” bin. Mostly everything was fine. However, the movie felt like it needed at least another half hour to really tie up all of the plot points. Instead, it shoves all of the endings into about 15 minutes. (And that is being generous.) I looked at the time when they were wrapping up Oscar’s personal storyline, which felt forced to begin with, and there was only one commercial break left. That meant the only thing that should be left is the Big Kiss. But we still had the toy store location, the Molly’s restaurant location, plus the Big Kiss, and maybe giving Wink’s mom a conclusion to deal with. Well, the locations get one whole line in the script and Wink’s mom is never heard from again after the second act. The girl really went from not wanting to leave her mom’s side to “Hey, we can live here forever. That’s cool.”

If they had taken a little more time wrapping up story lines, I think I would have actually liked the movie. There wasn’t anything particularly bad about it. Too much time was spend with Oscar and Christina bickering. Especially since they just kept saying the same things over and over. They could have easily resolved the bickering and moved that conflict into a series of conflicts. Maybe have Oscar agree to think about not destroying the wharf (ending that fight) but then pointing out to Christina all of the issues with the buildings, creating fresh new conflicts to deal with. Instead we get something akin to a childish argument where neither side will give any leeway. I’m sorry, Oscar. You claim to be a big businessman but there is no way you got as far as you did without having to give in at least a little bit.

Nantucket Noel is a decent watch. I think most people would be able to overlook the small issues in the script. Besides, Payton Lepinski is pretty cute as Wink. Even if Wink is a stupid nickname for a kid.