Movie Review: Hats Off To Christmas! (2013)

The early to mid 2010’s was the time when I would watch the Hallmark Channel movies the most. I looked forward to every holiday season when new movies would be released. In 2013, one of the movies I was excited to see was Hats Off To Christmas!.

Hats Off To Christmas! seemed like a cheesy name for a movie, but it wasn’t the reason why I wanted to watch it. It was because Hailey Duff, Hilary Duff’s sister, would star in the movie. Earlier this year, I was reminded of the movie online. I didn’t have this blog back when the movie premiered, so I thought it is about time I write a review about it before I forget about it again!

The plot summary of the movie from Hallmark’s official website is…

Mia, the loyal and hard-working manager of her small town’s Christmas hat shop, is blindsided when her boss of over 10 years asks her to train his son, Nick, for a vacant upper-management position that Mia had been coveting. Although Nick is a handsome, successful New York City business consultant, Mia finds training him frustrating until Nick takes an interest in Mia’s son Scotty (Sean Michael Kyer), helping Scotty with a pumpkin carving contest. However, Mia’s faith in Nick quickly diminishes when Nick fails to show up at the contest.

To protect her son from further disappointment, Mia tries to keep Nick out of her and Scotty’s fragile life and Nick must decide if staying in the small town of Wilsonville is worth giving up the big-city perks he once had in New York. As Mia struggles to find a way to convince Scotty to return to physical therapy so he can walk again, she soon realizes that Nick may be the Christmas miracle she has been waiting for. Does he stay or does he return to the Big Apple?

Starring Haylie Duff and Antonio Cupo.

I like this movie. It is heartwarming and enjoyable to watch. It ends with a happily ever after the way Hallmark Channels’s Christmas movies always do, but I really enjoyed the ending in this movie. The plot is really enjoyable and, although there are certain parts that I see as pretty cheesy, it’s not something that turns me off from the movie. The plot contains some scenes that add more tension and drama to the plot, but they are very much in Hallmark’s storytelling style. (What I mean is the drama adds tension to the plot, but it isn’t as dramatic as other movies may make it.)

Overall, I like the movie. It is not one of my favorite Hallmark Christmas movies, but I don’t mind rewatching it once in a while. It is a wholesome and enjoyable movie with a different type of plot that modern Hallmark movies don’t always have.

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!