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A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who lost his cabin in a fire, comment on TV about wishing he could get a home-cooked Christmas dinner, he arranges for a special live show on Christmas, for Elizabeth to cook him Christmas Dinner. Only Elizabeth can't cook, and trying to keep Jefferson and the viewing public from finding out on a live show may be a little difficult. Now listen i have never seen the original Christmas in Connecticut from 1945 i only seen this version cause it's directed by Arnold "Freaking" Schwarzenegger and for the most part i enjoyed it a lot first of all Dyan Cannon and Kris Kristofferson have a great chemistry together and their both energetic and funny and the same goes for Tony Curtis in fact 2 years later Arnold was meant to work with his daughter in James Cameron's underrated action comedy True Lies (1994) also Arnold Schwarzenegger himself has a cameo about one hour and sixteen minutes into the movie, Schwarzenegger is shown outside sitting at a table and speaking into a cell phone in front of the network's satellite uplink truck and there's even a Terminator reference where one of the characters says "I'll Be Back" plus Peter Kent Arnie's long time friend and stunt double has a cameo as a Cop and Wendle Josepher plays A.D. one of the crew members and she also appears in Last Action Hero (1993) as Candy Girl. I wish it was a bit more funny at times and there's a very dumb scene where a gun shot can be heard and for some stupid reason Cannon covers her eyes instead of her ears? That was a bit stupid but if you want to see a fun and romantic comedy with a pretty good and talented cast and a very talented actor behind the camera you might actually have fun with it but if you want to see a better Directed Schwarzenegger work go and check out his Tales from the Crypt Episode. (8/10)

The original 1945 blockbuster megahit starred Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan who sings, Cuddles Szakall and Sydney Greenstreet. It melds the classic thirties screwball to the added pizazz of the world war two era in which big names not necessarily experienced in the genre topped the cast list. Other than a farmhouse without what we know around here to be a generic period kitchen seating at least twenty its depiction of the personal camaraderie, period charm and busy often sophisticated life of New York's wealthier and more sophisticated semirural exurbs seems on target for even the millennium. The comic relief scenes of mixed up babies, a crooner melting a hard boiled potential partner and a runaway horse and cow add period charm which is still dynamite seventy years later. This 1992 remake certainly has star power as Arnold Schwarzenegger directs Dyan Cannon, Tony Curtis and Kris Kristofferson each of whom shine on camera. The period charm, genuine tranquility and upscale sophistication of this wealthy semirural exurban Connecticut setting is not correctly filmed because the recently built house lacking period charm seems in the middle of nowhere, the long time neighbors in no way supporting or socializing with each other. The large house in which much of the film is set seems rented in what we around here might consider as the not far from the city burbs. The sexually tinged shots and lowbrow physical comedy building a logical storyboard is anything BUT classic screwball which jumps in no believable order from physical comedy to period charm to budding romance with a purposely tacked on ending which in no way ties up the threads of the plot. Well enough constructed to sit through but not to watch again.

I've got this movie for my birthday, but I certainly wouldn't have bought it. It's unbelievable how a remake can be this awful. I'm not saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a bad director, but I think somebody else would have made a better movie out of it. The jokes are stupid, the acting is extremely bad, the story seems to go nowhere. It's a shame to waste the talent of these actors. I've only seen it once, and after that one time, I had enough of it. So, I'll give it a 1/5.

The original was a gem; beautifully written, charmingly acted,well directed. Why remake it? There is nothing about thisversion that works. The premise does not work in the 1990s, thestars are flat; the direction insipid.Save two hours of your life. Skip this and rent the original