Holiday in Handcuffs
- A ne er-do-well thirty-something (Melissa Joan Hart) attempts to appease her family by kidnapping herself an attractive boyfriend (Mario Lopez) for the family Christmas. Despite unlikely odds and dysfunctional family moments, the two fall in love and share a magical Christmas. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN Rating: NR Age: 018713532770 UPC: 018713532770 Manufa
Product Description
A ne er-do-well thirty-something (Melissa Joan Hart) attempts to appease her family by kidnapping herself an attractive boyfriend (Mario Lopez) for the family Christmas. Despite unlikely odds and dysfunctional family moments, the two fall in love and share a
magical Christmas.
Starring
MelissaJoan Hart and Mario Lopez
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We watched this on TV last year. It was a good “Christmas” special up to the last third of the movie. ABC had to throw in a side story line of Melissa Joan Hart’s character’s brother being homosexual. If you don’t have a problem with that choice of lifestyle, you will probably enjoy this movie. If you disagree with it (as my family does), you will most likely want to skip this movie. It didn’t even add anything to the story and was, in my opinion, pointless to put in the movie.
If you are looking for a good Christmas special from ABC Family, I would recommend Snowglobe from that same time period. It was a cute, corny and funny special that I would consider mostly family friendly. I am not adding Holiday in Handcuffs to my Christmas movie collection.
Rating: 1 / 5
Holiday in Handcuffs
This is a potentially cute family movie that loses its focus. Is it intended to be an amusing, enjoyable piece of family entertainment or is it intended to be a socialogical statement about disfunctional families? Whoever did the movie apparently could not decide. Most of the movie is an enjoyable, fun story of a girl under pressure from her family, who, on the spur of the moment, does something crazy–kidnaps a young man so she can show up at the family party with a date. The problem is that, probably in an attempt to justify her feelings of frustration and pressure that drove her to this action, we suddenly get into issues of parents who need counseling for sexual problems and for determination to control their children’s behavior, and the acceptance of homosexuality. In my opinion, these are issues that are appropriate to a movie with a more serious purpose aimed at a mature audience, but is completely inappropriate to a comedy intended for the entire family. Of course, it is possible that the ABC Family Channel may feel that that is there purpose–delivering the serious-issue pill inside a comedy candy wrapping. But I didn’t feel that it made for a good mix.
Rating: 3 / 5
Holiday in Handcuffs
I’m very disappointed in this movie. I read the story line and loved the actors so I felt safe in buying this movie. I was very wrong! This is not your typical “feel warm and fuzzy” Christmas movie at all! It has unnecessary adult content in it that I wouldn’t want my children to see..not even my teenagers. I was embarrassed to own such a film and traded it the first chance I got.
Rating: 1 / 5
Holiday in Handcuffs
I wish I’d read all the 1 point reviews before I bought this DVD – they are absolutely correct. It is NOT family friendly and I would not recommend it to anyone. Too bad, because the idea could be cute and there were some funny bits in it, but overall it is not worth viewing. Do not buy it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Holiday in Handcuffs
I just watched Holiday in Handcuffs on TV tonight during ABC’s 25 days of Christmas. I would have to say the dominating theme of this made for TV movie is twisted. I love Mario Lopez and so I thought I would give it a whirl. The premise of the show is quite preposterous, I realize it is just a movie, but the whole idea of a girl kidnapping a man is highly unlikely especially someone like Melissa Hart’s character who is fragile and not very confident. It ends up being a “cute” movie overall, but honestly I think I would have turned it off early on if Mario Lopez wasn’t the main character- he was the main reason I forced myself to watch the movie in its entirety. It ends up being a typical chick flick with a predictable sappy ending. I personally wouldn’t pay a dime for this movie, especially since you can watch it on TV for free (I am sure they will play it again sometime between now and Christmas). Not only this but the movie overall isn’t really that great and the retail price is outrageous especially since for that same price you could purchase a movie that was just released from the big screen.
Rating: 3 / 5
Holiday in Handcuffs