It’s rare that I get mad at a Christmas romance movie. Santa, Maybe has pushed me over that edge.

Lila (Aubrey Reynolds) manages the local theater. The board of directors has hired a new marketing coordinator, Glenn (Samuel Whitten), who happens to be Lila’s high school bully. Glenn pulls Lila’s name for the company Secret Santa. Can Glenn make up for his past and can Lila pull off the perfect Christmas ballet without forsaking her personal life?

I’m pretty sure that things that bother me, a theater person, would not bother a normal person. But they are things that shouldn’t have been in the movie. For example, no one recasts a major role in the Nutcracker at the last minute. This is a ballet that takes months to perfect and no one would approve a major cast change with less than a month preparation. No matter what the new marketing guy says. Also along those lines, no one would let the marketing guy cast any role. That’s not his job. He could bring it up to the director or the artistic director or the choreographer but he would not be the one making that decision. Also also - why bother having an understudy if you aren’t going to use them? THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF HAVING AN UNDERSTUDY. Someone who knows the role and can step in when the actor/dancer cannot perform. You don’t recast a role because the dancer is injured when you already have an understudy. What the hell.

On top of all of that, the Secret Santa thing they run is stupid. They are supposed to give each other one gift per week for six weeks. We’re talking about theater people! They are stereotypically broke! Who thinks they could afford to buy six separate gifts for someone? This is the stupidest Secret Santa ever.

I really hate when movies set themselves in a theater then completely ignore the rules of how a performance works. You would think that someone somewhere along the line would know that none of this is even close to reality and try to get it fixed. Then again, maybe they don’t know how scripts work either.

Rating: A sugar plum dud