![]() She loved it as a kid until her parents started going to Aspen instead of staying home. Molly also has tension with the Christmas holiday. I watched it with a friend who described the set design and general aura as "sickening."Īs the two continue fake/real dating, there is more conflict because of Molly's mom, who is unsupportive of her daughter's dreams. Everything feels off and on the brink of chaos. This movie, and all Hallmark movies generally, feel like watching the beginning of both a porno and a horror movie. Their charade of dating/mingling continues but, despite having the same amount of chemistry as two napkins, they develop real feelings for each other! The only obstacle is that, one hour into the movie, Jeff still does not know that Molly is the inventor of the app on which they met! Is this really a conflict? No, not really. In this world, employers want their employees to have significant others so they're happier and better workers. Jeff is up for a big promotion, but truly feels like he can't get it without bringing a date to the work party. The decor is cheap and, for some reason, unsettling. Every character in this movie is given as little personality as possible. It's like watching two robots act inside a cardboard box. Jeff is supposed to be fun-loving, but he comes off as a demon. Movies always demonstrate this by noting that the woman loves to make pro and con lists. Molly, like every rom-com protagonist, is supposed to be uptight and type A. They do not get along, so when they meet, there's a lot "oh, brother" and "you?!" When she bumped into him on the street, causing him to drop his homemade Christmas stockings in the snow (?). He bought a doll she was going to buy (?) and 2. Molly accidentally gets set up with hot guy algorithmic creation Jeff (Brant Daugherty), a man she previously had bad encounters with when 1. He suggests she try out the app herself to impress an investor in some convoluted plan that doesn't make sense but also doesn't matter. Molly, who looks like the fifth runner up of an Amy Adams lookalike contest, runs the app with one other person, a graphic designer who looks like Billy Crudup's buff son. (In the universe of these movie, it's incredibly shameful and even detrimental to your career to show up at a work event without a date). Molly (Jen Lilley) is an app developer who created Mingle All the Way, an app that is like Tinder for busy business people who don't want a real date but do want a fake date they can take to work events. Hallmark Channel original Mingle All the Way follows the classic rom-com format of two people who hate each other, but are forced to pretend to be a couple for dumb reasons. Click to enlarge In the spirit of the holiday season, Pittsburgh City Paper presents a holiday movie advent calendar. One holiday movie review, everyday (probably).
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