A Christmas Less Traveled is the first of the Candace Cameron Bure movies that are airing this year. I’m pretty positive that the second movie is a Hallmark movie that Great American Family somehow got the rights to….but that is for later discussion. Let’s see if this one is any good.

Desi (Bure) owns The Dine And Dash diner, which has fallen on hard times. In order to get out of debt, Desi puts her late father’s truck up for sale. Before she can sell it, she finds a cassette tape from her father leading her on a road trip through his past. Accompanying her is Grayson (Eric Johnson), a stranger who has been following Desi for a mysterious reason.

I really think I’m going to cut the Great American Family movies out of the schedule next year. Like almost all of the others, Less Traveled is boring. Desi meets up with her father’s old friends and tries to connect with them on a personal level but it felt so…impersonal. There were no connections with anyone. Even the whole love story with Grayson felt forced and unnatural.

Most years, I can count on Bure to give me a bland movie preaching the will of God that at least has decent acting. This time around, all that is left is “God’s plan.” I feel bad for the conservatives that left Hallmark for this drivel. They could have had much better movies.

Rating: Skip the road trip