Welcome to our Hallmark Holiday podcast where a friend and I watch one of these ridiculous movies, get together and proceed to dismantle them trope by trope and stereotype upon stereotype...until there is nothing left. Oh, while we drink. Christmas Belle stars Haylie Duff and Nicholas Gonzalez. Haylie’s character, Belle Everheart, a realtor whose job is made to seem far more involved by having her additionally moonlight as a rare book dealing estate cataloguist. In a poor attempt at a modern, live-action Beauty & the Beast, she is sent away to a large estate to meet Hunter Lowell, a grouchy commodities broker, who mentally abuses Belle and his entire mansion staff as a result of his death-riddled past. Circumstances cause a sudden 180 and Hunter magically (not to us) realizes that Belle is all he could ever need in a lifelong partner, asking her to marry him after a rocky three-day courtship. The two overcome several obstacles including a jealous non-boyfriend, lazy business owning father and supervising mansion Christmas décor which culminates in a Christmas dance and everlasting love.
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