With A Brush With Christmas, we finish the Great American Family movies for the season. I wish that the channels would end their seasons with a really good movie. It doesn’t have to be their best but it would be nice if it was at least good.

Charlotte (Jillian Murray) is the head chef at her family’s restaurant. However, she really wants to be an artist. Disheartened by the lack of time she has for her art, Charlotte throws away an unfinished painting. Wyatt (Joseph Cannata), a visiting artist, finds the painting and submits it to the Christmas art festival. Charlotte is not happy when she sees her painting in the exhibit.

This was yet another boring movie. There were so many problems that weren’t actually problems. While Charlotte said she wanted to paint, she also said she was perfectly happy cooking. Granted, she had a lot of trouble cooking risotto but at no point did she actually seem unhappy. And Wyatt? I’m still not sure what his problem was. Why would someone take an unfinished painting and submit it to a festival? He didn’t claim the painting as his - he entered it as painted anonymously but submitted by him. That just seems weird and creepy to me.

Skip this one too. I’m not sure that I will keep Great American Family on the list in 2023. I’m going to go into more detail in my Christmas movie wrap up but let’s just say that, for the most part, these are not good movies.