This modern-day Amazon Prime Christmas love story will never usurp Audrey in claiming Tiffany's of New York's most famous movie attribution but as a seasonal, light-hearted rom-com it passes an agreeable 90 minutes or so viewing time.
Zoey Deutch and Kendrick Sampson are the attractive young New Yorkers both on the verge of engagements to the wrong people. They're brought together during the season of impossible coincidences (i.e. Christmas, of course) over a mislaid engagement ring. Both of them do actually get engaged to their current partners but once their star-crossed paths converge, there's little surprise at how this one is eventually going to turn out.
There are a few entertaining twists and turns in the tale as Sampson and Deutch bond over bread, deceased relatives and a favourite spot by the East River, helped in this by his 13-going-on-33 daughter and her straight-talking gay female business partner. It's all boosted by pretty, Christmassy New York locations, some nice old songs in the soundtrack but most of all by the pleasing chemistry between the leads.
All in all, as Christmas romances go, this bakery-centred movie buttered up surprisingly well.
Zoey Deutch and Kendrick Sampson are the attractive young New Yorkers both on the verge of engagements to the wrong people. They're brought together during the season of impossible coincidences (i.e. Christmas, of course) over a mislaid engagement ring. Both of them do actually get engaged to their current partners but once their star-crossed paths converge, there's little surprise at how this one is eventually going to turn out.
There are a few entertaining twists and turns in the tale as Sampson and Deutch bond over bread, deceased relatives and a favourite spot by the East River, helped in this by his 13-going-on-33 daughter and her straight-talking gay female business partner. It's all boosted by pretty, Christmassy New York locations, some nice old songs in the soundtrack but most of all by the pleasing chemistry between the leads.
All in all, as Christmas romances go, this bakery-centred movie buttered up surprisingly well.