Two years ago both Hallmark and Lifetime ran Christmas movies about personal shoppers (the MSG Approved “12 Gifts of Christmas” and the far superior MSG Fav “A Gift-Wrapped Christmas” respectively, which I'll get to later). Hallmark had a brunette, Lifetime had a blonde, now Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel has a novel approach to its lead character: a man! Basically, guy finds clients the perfect gift for their intendees, specializing in Christmas (earning him the nickname Mr Christmas, which would have been a better title but might have clashed with Hallmark's Miss Christmas, which I'll also get to) via a questionnaire and savvy research. But a last minute request from a corporate client who's basically too self-absorbed to give a shit, forces him to be more proactive and essentially stalk the woman in question, leading to the inevitable meeting. Basically he's a G rated version of Matt Dillon in There's Something About Mary, maybe he's not as aggressive about it and there's no cumshots to the ear but we are teetering on a morality fence. Most importantly, this could happened January through November they could have called called it The Perfect Birthday Present and it would have been 98% identical; a Christmas themed fundraiser at the end is too little too late. Not MSG approved.
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