The commercials for Our Christmas Mural made this movie look really bad. I’m not sure why Hallmark has such a problem making good commercials for their shows. Do any of these actually make people want to watch it?

Olivia (Alex Paxton-Beesley) is a single mom working in a New York art gallery. After her husband passed away, she lost all inspiration to paint. And now she may be losing her job. So Olivia and her son, Parker (Viggo Hanvelt), go back to her hometown of Wellington for the holidays. When she wins an art contest her mother secretly entered her in, Olivia turns to art teacher Will (Dan Jeannotte) for help with the Christmas mural.

Hmmm. I didn’t hate this movie but I didn’t like it either. It wanted to be a movie about grief but it didn’t want to be too heavy so they just lightly touched on all their discussions about death. It also wanted to be arty but not really show anyone doing any art. We get a couple of scenes where it looks like they may be sketching or painting but it’s not particularly realistic. It’s not boring but it also doesn’t go anywhere. It just is. And that is weird.

Rating: Just as bland as the mural itself