Christmas Under Wraps

If this one seems predictable it's because, like many of these, you've seen it before. This seems obvious, it is a TV Christmas movie after all. But this one is essentially Doc Hollywood with a gender switch crossed with Northern Exposure. Full House alum Candice Cameron Burke, who like Lacy Chabert, Dean Cain and others, has carved an entire career out of tv movies, plays a San Fransisco doctor who begrudgingly accepts a fellowship (Doc Hollywood) in a town in Alaska (Northern Exposure) that's so tiny, she's the only physician (Dog Hollywood and Northern Exposure).  The town has a "shipping" business that seems to be at it's busiest around the holidays. With citizens seen with toy making tools, reindeers not uncommon and jolly white bearded patriarch (a good turn from Brian Doyle-Murray), it's pretty obvious what's going on there. Featuring the obligatory romance, the nausea factor is moderate, but so is the Christmas factor, and I was able to make it through to the end. MSG approved (if barely).