Product Details

• Actors: Tim Matheson, Melissa Gilbert, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jayne Eastwood, Jack Jessop
• Directors: Jerry London
• Writers: Darrah Cloud
• Producers: Darrah Cloud, Howard Braunstein, Michael Jaffe, Susan Murdoch
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Swedish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sterling Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 15, 2002
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00062WUVY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,363 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "A Holiday for Love" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Warm holiday drama in which an executive forced to cut the jobs of many people working at a small-town tractor factory gets a big surprise when he's mistaken as the savior of the local economy. Melissa Gilbert, Tim Matheson, Travis Tritt, Michelle Trachtenberg star. AKA: "Christmas in My Hometown." Standard (Full Screen); Soundtrack: English.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

94 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Is Also Known As Christmas In My Home Town!, October 6, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: A Holiday for Love (DVD)

I love Christmas movies and I also love Christmas themed romance books and this movie though not adapted from a romance book really seems like it could have been. It is about an executive working for a large company that makes farm equipment, the company is having finincial problems and thinks that by cutting jobs at the factory level that it will get itself out of finincial trouble so they send several executives to several small towns to go undercover and investigate how eficient the factories are being run and to make up a report to see if the factories should be closed. Tim Matheson reluctantly goes to a smalltown in Nebraska which actually was his hometown that he moved away from when he was a child and his mother left his father. He winds up getting stranded in a blizzard and meets a young widow and her daughter played by Melissa Gilbert and Michelle Tractenberg and spins a tale that gets out of control when he pretends to be a big buyer of farm equipment that the townspeople think will save their factory and town and then he falls for Melissa Gilbert's character which is complicated by the fact that she happens to work at the factory with her father and brother and that closing it down will not only put her and her out of a job but her family and the majority of the towns people too which would destroy their economy and he starts to feel guilty about his deceiving everyone, including the woman that he loves and another factor is that she is dating the sherrif played by Travis Tritt who is suspicious of him and his motives. This is a very good movie and Tim Matheson, Melissa Gilbert and Michelle Tractenberg were all very good but so was country singer Travis Tritt as the sherrif and I must say that even though I enjoyed the romance between Tim Matheson and Melissa Gilbert's character's Jake and Emma I still felt bad for Travis Tritt's character Tim but as it appeared that local gal Betsy had a crush on him and they were sitting together at the Christmas dinner at the retirement home that perhaps Tim and Betsy got together. I very highly recommend this movie which was originally a made for CBS television movie with the title Christmas in my Hometown and has been rerun ever since with that same title every December on Lifetime TV but when it was released on DVD the title for some reason was changed to Holiday For Love which is a nice title but I prefer the original title, Christmas in My Hometown! This DVD is out of print and hopefully it will someday be rereleased with the original title.

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Holiday for Love, March 29, 2008

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Kelly "Reviewer for The Sinfully Sensuous" (Littleton, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Holiday for Love (DVD)

Our family collects Christmas movies, and around the holidays, we watch nothing else. This is quickly becoming one of our absolute favorites. Melissa Gilbert and Tim Matheson have sweet charming chemistry, and are well paired for this film. Travis Tritt's performance was a surprise to me. I didn't know how well he acted, and loved his character.

This is a heartwarming inspirational movie, and one to be viewed over and over again especially around the holidays or when you just need to feel better.

31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars underrated actor!, February 4, 2005

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Kennel Club 6 - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Holiday for Love (DVD)

A very cute, wonderful movie. If you're a Travis Tritt fan, you'll love him in this and love his character. He proves to be a very good actor who seems to have personally experienced some of the story in his own life (some of the facial expressions and timing seem to come from his personal experience, not from acting!) I'm always looking for good Christmas movies, and this one was new to me. Also gave me more insight into Travis' "Where Corn Don't Grow" and I discovered just how talented this man is - and underappreciated! A great find.