ONE CHRISTMAS EVE (2014)

What would you say about a group of people that includes spending their Christmas Eve night with multiple trips to the emergency room, getting hurt on a construction site, suffering potential frostbite, getting stranded in an SUV on a highway in the middle of a potential blizzard, being robbed at gunpoint, and barely escaping a fire that guts a police station ... while somehow remaining perky and congenial about the entire thing?  Well, if it's a Hallmark Channel Christmas film, you'd play it off for laughs and Disney-level cutesy ... which is why One Christmas Eve has a couple of nice moments but is otherwise a grating story about how trying to find a home for a puppy on Christmas Eve can lead to one disaster after another.  The cast makes the most of what they have to work with, and if you're willing to suspend all disbelief in reality and can take the sugar-rush of such cuteness, you might enjoy this confection of a holiday film sure to cause at least one cavity via all its sweetness. (not rated)  D+

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