This movie varies from typical lighthearted Christmas romcoms by approaching a very real and serious subject. Katrina Bowden is very believable as the concerned optometrist but Christopher Russell really sells the pain and suffering of someone who has lived his entire life with color blindness. He really evokes well the emotions that one would imagine of someone seeing colors for the first time in his life as an adult. He makes you feel along with the character what it must be like to realize what you have been missing your entire life. Just the sheer beauty of life all around us that the rest of us take for granted every day. Beyond that experience there is the obligatory miscommunication of most Hallmark movies that leads to the ultimate romantic coupling of the two main characters. In addition to everything else, I find there to be a definite charisma between the two lead actors that evokes the emotions Hallmark movies are famous for. This has immediately become one of my all time Christmas favorites from Hallmark and I hope to find it available for purchase soon.
