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Happiest Season Synopsis: A holiday romantic comedy that captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family’s acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas. When her girlfriend Harper (Mackenzie Davis) invites her to accompany her home for Christmas, Abby (Kristen Stewart) soon finds out that Harper has yet to come out to her wealthy, conservative parents, and the entire family is under the impression that Abby is simply Harper’s roommate. Abby reluctantly agrees with the charade as Harper promises to tell her parents everything after the holidays. Thus begins about 70 minutes of watching Abby…
While still reeling from a breakup, Sloane (Emma Roberts) is growing tired of her family’s constant pressure to find a man. Jackson (Luke Bracey) is fed up with casual dating, leading to complications and emotionally needy women. The two meet by chance at the mall, where Sloane explains that her aunt Susan (Kristin Chenoweth) escapes familial pressure by bringing a ‘holidate’ – a platonic date designed specifically for random holiday functions. Jackson thinks this idea is brilliant and suggests he and Sloane become each other’s “holidate”. Sloane reluctantly agrees and thus starts an entire year of platonic dates between Jackson…
Horns Synopsis: Blamed for the murder of his girlfriend, a man (Daniel Radcliffe) awakes one morning to find he has grown a pair of horns. Armed, now, with supernatural powers, he sets out to find the killer.
The Half of It Synopsis: When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn’t expect to become his friend – or fall for his crush. Ellie Chu is a student with a promising future. Smart but introverted, she makes extra cash by writing school papers for her classmates. When Paul, an awkward jock, offers her money to write a love letter to the object of his desire, Ellie agrees… but only to pay her widowed father’s electricity bill that’s three months overdue. It’s not a difficult assignment because Paul’s crush, Aster,…
Holiday Engagement: Afraid to tell her family she’s been dumped, Hillary hires an actor to play her fiancé during a four-day Thanksgiving weekend at her parents’ house.
Holiday in the Wild: Jilted by her husband on the eve of embarking on an African safari, a woman travels to the continent alone where she meets an elephant conservationis
How Do You Know: After being cut from the U.S.A. softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
Happy Anniversary: A couple on their three-year anniversary need to decide whether to stay together or call it quits.
The Holiday Calendar Synopsis: A talented photographer stuck in a dead-end job inherits an antique Advent calendar that may be predicting the future – and pointing her toward love. We’re all pretty aware that Hallmark wears the Christmas rom-com crown, but after the rom-com successes of Set It Up and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, it seems like Netflix is now attempting to corner the market on fluffy Christmas romances. I went into The Holiday Calendar with low expectations, simply because I’m not that big a fan of Hallmark’s plethora of Christmas rom-coms, and let’s be honest, the…
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