Before Christmas, Abigail agrees to help her sister with what she believes will be an easy flip of an inherited home. Things get tricky when Bo has a different idea.
You see enough of these and it's easy to pick out the good ones. They tend to have just enough of the hallmark/lifetime holiday tropes while maintaining stable plots, dialogue, and being above average acted. This is not one of those. It's as if the characters defining character features became their only features. The only refreshing part was the male lead was portrayed as more of a jerk than the female lead, which is honestly the way most of these movies go. If you took every key plot point of a typical one of these holiday movies, you'd find that Flipping for Christmas skips about every other beat. The male lead literally goes from outright rude with no established reasons why all the way to completely flirty paint play. Even the McGuffin here of the house being left to the grandson AND his contractor is never really fleshed out. Like, the number one question is why would he leave this house to BOTH his grandson and the contractor and the movie barely touches on it. Really, the plot should be about the upset grandson having the estate gift from his grandfather split and how the grandson needs to find the spirit of Christmas.
You see enough of these and it's easy to pick out the good ones. They tend to have just enough of the hallmark/lifetime holiday tropes while maintaining stable plots, dialogue, and being above average acted. This is not one of those. It's as if the characters defining character features became their only features. The only refreshing part was the male lead was portrayed as more of a jerk than the female lead, which is honestly the way most of these movies go. If you took every key plot point of a typical one of these holiday movies, you'd find that Flipping for Christmas skips about every other beat. The male lead literally goes from outright rude with no established reasons why all the way to completely flirty paint play. Even the McGuffin here of the house being left to the grandson AND his contractor is never really fleshed out. Like, the number one question is why would he leave this house to BOTH his grandson and the contractor and the movie barely touches on it. Really, the plot should be about the upset grandson having the estate gift from his grandfather split and how the grandson needs to find the spirit of Christmas.