A Star-Crossed Christmas

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Both fill in the backstory like an in-film prologue: “Stay away from the Pines” Holly warns Rick, “our families have despised each other as long as I can remember… it’s personal”. The premise for 2017's 'The Spruces and the Pines' didn't entirely grab me at first or make me go wow. The only characters I enjoyed (apart from the soldier because we respect the troops) were side characters Bear and Holly, who’ve been having a secret inter-feud triste of their own for months without making such a meal of it.

It turns out there are, in fact, people who don’t want to watch the same film with a different name five times a day! So much so, the Julie's dad says to her at one point "I thought I had raised a daughter who understood the values that this family holds. A Star-Crossed Christmas becomes the comedy Romeo and Juliet was destined to be before Mercutio dies.

Once you get over the corny family names, Pine and Spruce, and forget the cheesy nickname "Bear" for a big burly smiling tub of a man (maybe not such a bad nickname after all), and accept that the story of ridiculously feuding families and thwarted star-crossed lovers is a happier variant on Romeo and Juliet, this is a good film. It was cute and heart-warming so a pleasant and nothing to be offended by watch, but also on the too safe and bland side at other points (not to mention it not being much different from other Christmas films in some of the material). I know that this is primarily a love story but it would have been so much better to have a stronger resolve and make it a two-story film. Sadly falls prey to a common plight: all the male characters act and speak like little girls, perhaps in an effort to make the main female character seem strong in comparison. John Stimpson, 2017) — also known by the less Bardtastic title The Spruces and the Pines — is a classic made-for-TV Christmas Movie.

There are some good lighthearted and heartwarming moments in the film and the relationship between Julie and Rick is engrossing and entertaining to watch.

They agree it is more than time that the feuding stop, but they realise that, for the time being, they are forced by their circumstances to hide their Yuletide relationship. Inevitably one child of a family falls in love with a child of the other family, and they are under a lot of pressure to break up due to old grudges. It's not until later that his true identity is revealed, though by that time Julie has fallen for him. Summary [ ] This page about a Christmas special or an episode from a television series with a Christmas theme is in need of a longer synopsis.