At least it explains why her house is not decorated. Jameson, with her groceries but she barely accepts the help while being a real Grinch. Lindsay tries to help the old neighbour, Mrs. I’m pretty sure most of the lights in the movie are CGI but it’s well done enough to question but not to distract. Her mother’s house is the typical Hallmark mansion and makes the neighbours’ houses look bad with its dazzlingly light display. Lindsay of course does not catch on to the greater meaning of this but accepts and heads to her mother’s house. Jason, with some quiet pester-waving on from employee Becca, tries to nonchalantly ask Lindsay if he can take her out to dinner at Gino’s tonight – no occasion, just young and in love, meet me there at 8pm. But everyone’s friends here so Lindsay and Jason jokingly play along. Three ladies gawk at them as they kiss and jokingly add that he never kisses them like that. He appears to have survived that nuke at the end and moved to Harbour View, Washington to open a coffee shop. Jason is played with enthusiastic dorkiness and nervous self-deprecation by Michael Stahl-David who, if you’re like me, you last saw running from the Cloverfield monster. Lindsay grabs a coffee and a kiss from the owner/ boyfriend, Jason Stewart. Next, we’re off to the town’s favourite coffee shop, the aptly named Caffeinated Café. She will, of course, disregard her own advice until the very end of the movie. “What matters to me? What fulfills me? What is it that I really want?” and warns them that if they’re really honest with themselves, the answers might not be what they expect. She leaves the class with the message that to live an inspired life, you have to ask the hard questions about yourself. Her students are unhappy that her class is coming to a close because we’re supposed to believe she’s such a great professor despite the fact that she looks like she just graduated and also acts immaturely later in the movie (which I found charming, if a little un-professor-ish). Mumford plays Lindsay Rogers, a psychology professor who’s finishing up her classes semester not with an exam, but with a lecture on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. But all this praise doesn’t mean it isn’t riddled with moments to make fun of though. It all comes together into a cute and engaging movie. Sean McNamara, who previously directed Soul Surfer, directs in a way that makes it look like the movie actually had a budget. Cameos by Christopher Lloyd and William Shatner entertain at every turn, bringing up nostalgia of their past roles. The banter and chemistry between Eloise Mumford and Michael Stahl-David works. Yes, Just In Time for Christmas is a movie that I actually enjoyed. Huh? What’s this? A competently made and actually decent Hallmark movie!? Could it be…
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