We have businessman Cliff who is sent to supervise the construction of a float for his company, for the Rose Parade. Andy is an artist and an art teacher who is afraid to show her work to anybody since she failed her first and only gallery. Her father Big Al has always been in charge of the float-construction business but now his doctor tells him that he needs to take it slow so she takes charge of that and therefore has to deal with Cliff, who’s all like “how difficult can it possibly be?” ...
They find a small bunch of volunteers to help and they try to work out their differences. He helps decorating and gets everyone a Christmas present, then he spends Christmas with her family.
He wants the float to be a success because his goal is to get a promotion and go to Shangai. It’s all going well and nice between them until Cliff’s boss shows up and critics everything they’ve done and reveals that Cliff said that with her in charge it would be a disaster, which she takes rather too seriously. He said it when he barely knew her, but she feels hurt and says “you never believed in me” and storms out. Cliff tries to defend her work with his boss but his own future is uncertain at this point. He must go back to Chicago but when she learns about him leaving she runs to get him back.
I hate the big speeches American movies love so much, and there are a lot here, they spend more time doing speeches than actually working, and only now that the deadline is near one of the volunteers, Eric, thinks of calling his friends to help. They manage it in time of course and the boss is satisfied alright and offers him that job in Shanghai but he turns it down to stay in Pasadena with Andy.
Well, the ending was rather disappointing. First they spent a lot of time trying to get the bear on the float to move, and then when it was ‘parading’ it didn’t move at all, so what was that all about? Just a boring waste of time, it seems.
Second, at the end Cliff himself repairs the little engine that makes the bear move, but if he could do it why didn’t he even look at it before now? At first he was like ‘I’m the boss and you’re the hand-labour’ but then he started helping them with the work and after all he cared a lot about it being a success so why didn’t he even take a look ? :-/
Third: after 80 minutes of story they just kiss like a couple that’s been together ten years, and then he turns out the big goal he’s been working for and talking about all that time - not really sure what he intends to do here - and she simply agrees saying that she’ll show her paintings in a gallery and he’ll be the new manager of her dad’s float-construction business... just like that, and it ends... I mean, was that her father’s only job? They needed volunteers, you telling me he supported a family doing that? Because if he did, why didn’t they hire workers? Those people worked for weeks and only got a Christmas present - a nice one but still.
I don’t know, the ending was boring and disappointing for me.
Andy-Rachel Boston
Cliff-Marc Bendavid
Big Al-Michael Kopsa
Emily-Venus Terzo
Eric-Austin Obiajunwa
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