Danica McKellar is one of the actors that left Hallmark for Great American Family after last year’s Christmas season. Let’s see if the switch changed the tone of the movies she’s doing now.

Sadie (Danica McKellar) is a property lawyer who left her big law firm in Chicago to teach in her hometown. When she hears that her high school boyfriend, Holden (Neal Bledsoe), is selling his late father’s drive-in theater, Sadie takes up the fight to keep the drive-in open.

Well, Christmas At The Drive-In suffers from the same problem as McKellar’s Hallmark movies. She is a wonderful actress stuck with a rather terrible script. For example, all of Sadie’s ideas to save the drive-in consist of “throw more Christmas at it.” I don’t know that putting up more Christmas lights will bring more patrons to the theater. Some of the other ideas were wonderful: the food truck and moving the Christmas tree sales to the drive-in. However, a lot of the ideas revolved around simply adding more decorations.

Thankfully, McKellar was paired with Bledsoe this time around. He’s not the best of the romantic male lead actors but he was able to hold his own against McKellar. Their pairing made Christmas At The Drive-In a little more watchable.

Do I recommend watching it? Eh, if you are a McKellar fan, definitely. She is the bright spot in the movie. Maybe get a bowl of fresh popped popcorn and pretend you are at your own personal drive-in while watching. It might not make it any more interesting but, hey, popcorn!

A Tiny Home Christmas is probably the first Christmas movie title that confused me. Is this about people that live in tiny homes celebrating Christmas? That seems weird. It did get me interested in the movie, which is the point of a title, right?

Blair (Rebecca Dalton) and Mason (Christopher Seivright) were not only co-hosts of a hit design show, they were also dating. When her father’s construction company started to fail, Blair quit the show and went home to help the family business. One of Blair’s ideas is to build a community of small homes for the town’s houseless citizens. Mason, who has come back to town to sell his house, accidentally walks in on Blair’s pitch to the state’s Secretary of Housing. Now they will need to work together to try to make this project come to life.

Surprisingly, I found A Tiny Home Christmas very endearing. As I think we all know by now, I enjoy movies where the romance doesn’t steer the entire plot. And that is what happens here. Blair’s passion to get this project going - both to help her father’s business and to get people into houses - is so sweet. Her annoyance with Mason does sour it a little but you can kinda see where she’s coming from . Even though that all could have been solved with a simple conversation. But we know how these movies go.

If I was to complain about anything in the movie, there is one tiny thing that bothered me. There was a hint that there was some sort of romance or at least flirting between Blair and Scott, one of her father’s employees. Mason even shows a bit of jealousy toward him. Yet it goes nowhere. I’m pretty sure there isn’t even a conversation about how they are just friends or that he works for her father or anything like that. It felt a bit misleading.

Other than that, I really liked A Tiny Home Christmas. I think this might be a movie that you could actually watch and enjoy. Even the montages were interesting!