Thursday, 15 February 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2019)

At a Bourbon Street lounge in New Orleans, in the run up to Christmas, Lindsey Scott (Marla Sokoloff) and Wes Bailey (Rob Mayes) are a reluctant duelling pianos/singing act, that reluctance being due to them being complete opposites.

Lindsey is classically trained and structured whereas Wes is more relaxed, and more Jazz oriented.

Their last gig of the year is cancelled at the last minute and as the money from that show was going to fund her flight home for Christmas, she is left deflated.

Her sister Allie (Whitney Palmer) is almost due with her first baby so her need to get home promptly was acute Wes on the other hand needed to get home to see his sick mother before she passed.

In passing conversation, it transpired that they were both from small hometowns just outside of Akron, so he suggests that they drive the fifteen-hour straight through journey together and she reluctantly agrees.

On the road trip, they meet one obstacle after another, detours, breakdowns, adverse weather, all of which threatened to prevent them from reaching their respective homes in time for Christmas.

But as a result, they have to spend more time together than they expected, and in the process, they truly to get to know and understand each other.

And somewhere along the way they fell in love.

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