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A Holiday for Love

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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.

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.

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.

I first saw this movie on T.V. at Christmas time and having been looking for it to add to my Christmas movies. It will become a ritual to watch this with all my other Christmas favorites. It's a touching story and Melissa Gilbert is great!

anew, because it's one of the loveliest, best made X-mas movie. I've bought it used and it quickly advanced to my absolute favourites. Very good acting, good script, the story is even highly up to date with people loosing their jobs not just here in Germany. One would wish there were more people like Jake coming to their senses, at least trying make things better. Very nice dream!

Another absolutely wonderful Christmas movie!!! Our family loves it, we watch it many times during the year..It's a great feel good movie!!! We love our Christmas Holidays and this movie is definitely a part of making the Holidays special.......

This movie is predictable and you can pretty much guess how it will turn out less than halfway through the movie but that doesn't matter as someone who bought a title like 'Holiday for Love' (or 'Christmas in My Hometown' as it is originally titled) pretty much knows what they will get - a feel-good movie. And this movie does deliver, the acting's great, the story's fine (for this kind of movie), and most of all, the atmosphere's (bolstered by the Christmas tunes) fabulous. Wish someone could re-release this so that the price would drop (it's currently $67.80 from Amazon's third party sellers) and bigger mass could enjoy it. Highly recommended.

This is my favorite holiday movie. It's everything a fantasy Christmas should be. Snow, family love, romantic love, and small town pride. The acting isn't perfect and the characters aren't deep, but it heart warming. I watch it several times a holiday, curled up on the sofa with hot coco, and my dog.

I love any feel good movie, they are for a winter night to get over the blahs.

The price of this movie is ridiculous. I found my DVD about 5 yrs ago in a drug store for $7.99 with a bunch of Christmas movies. So definitely check around.....Walgreens, Rite Aid, grocery stores, etc. It's probably my favorite Melissa Gilbert movie and who doesn't love Tim Matheson! Nice, handsome and a very humble actor. The girl that plays the daughter is adorable and a very good actress as well. I have watched this movie every Christmas. It's just a sweet story. I highly recommend the movie, but not for the prices on Amazon. Melissa's acting was (and usually is) marginal but the story is wonderful and well written for a TV movie.