A Make or Break Holiday 2025 Movie Review
Liv (Hunter King) and Daniel (Evan Roderick) have a tiff and decide to separate and try to cancel their families who are coming to visit. However, the families guilt them into hosting Christmas anyway. So they decide to pretend to still be together. If the couple weren’t already on the outs, their families would be enough to split them up!!! Can we have a more obnoxious, intrusive, manipulative bunch of relatives ever?? Oh wait, we’ve had that plot in many other Hallmark Christmas movies. Seriously, this trope is getting REALLY OLD!!
So say GOODBYE to a Merry Christmas with this bunch! The family (8) invade this couple’s house for Christmas after their hotel floods. Then they demand, command and guilt the pair into compliance with their every whim. YUK!!
On the up side, the new “Mr. Christmas,” Craig Geoghan, has a small part playing a brother (instead of playing the lead as in last year’s movie). He is actually pretty good.
The parents are insistent on having and doing what they traditionally always have and do for their Christmases, to the extent that Liv’s dad gets into Daniel’s face to insist on playing a game that Liv doesn’t want to play and on having a turkey that isn’t available. Honestly, if you have no ability to adapt to your host’s way of doing things, just STAY HOME!
Only the siblings are intuitive enough to notice that there is something “off” about the couple. So Kim, Daniel’s sister, persuades Reid, Liv’s brother, to help her get Liv and Daniel back together. Meanwhile, grandma makes demands on Reid.
Liv describes things with this one sentence, “A fruitcake that must be finished otherwise my parents will get offended, throw a fit, and make passive aggressive digs all night.”
And what on earth is Jonathan Bennett doing a cameo in this movie? Do we really need him in every single Hallmark movie??
