12 Dares of Christmas

2023

Romance

2
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 261 261

christmas

Plot summary

High school teacher Elara’s quiet holiday season gets a jolt of spice when she accepts a 12 Dares of Christmas challenge from her sister while scrambling to ready her town for a Christmas exchange program with suave, opinionated French teacher Gabriel.

Director

Panta Mosleh Photo
Panta Mosleh

Top cast

Brittany Underwood Photo
Brittany Underwood as Elara
Tosca Baggoo Photo
Tosca Baggoo as Rita
Panta Mosleh Photo
Panta Mosleh as Irritated Parent
Eric Pollins Photo
Eric Pollins as Victor
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820.09 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 3
1.49 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boriskaiser 4 / 10

Passable

This is Reel One Entertainment Christmas 2023 season TV movie. It's probably their lowest budget Christmas one. Actually, their whole Christmas 2023 season is a really low budget. They clearly cut down budget from the 2022 season, but for some reason(s) quality went up. Technically is fine except one thing which plagues so many their TV movie in the last two years - overusage of stock footage. Just cut it down...I'm not the fan of Brittany Underwood, both as actress and director, but I think she was mostly passable - she definitely improved as the movie goes. Her lead partner, Sean Yves Lessard, who looks like discount Ezra Miller but is better than him, was actually surprisingly well. Marnie Mahannah who played Brittany's younger sister deserves lead role. She's better than the vast majority of new female leads in ROE TV movies. The rest of the cast is barely in.The biggest failure is writing. I would say director did the best what could be done with that Hallmarkish Christmas cookie cutter screenplay. I mean, there is some genuine good writing like for example I think that the backstory of the "French" guy was actually really good, and I didn't expect it. Act I is done well, too. Sadly, the vast majority is full of you already saw it so many times in Hallmark TV movies (Act II), but it's even worse because of the abovementioned really low budget. I didn't count but I think close to the half of dares are done off the screen because shooting them would prolong movie (but they could cut off stock footage to compensate) and would cost (a lot of) money which is I guess much serious issue. In some scenes movie was just a bit of too much childish. And what's up lately with ROE movies where the lead actress has some strange name - this time is Elara. Seriously, just why?!Overall, it's not a bad movie or a train wreck like the most ROE Christmas TV movies in 2022 season, but unfortunately mostly copy/paste Hallmark script dragged it down into watch it once and forget category.And obligatory don't watch trailer (for some reasons here is only posted shortened version) as it's the ROE one and for some unknown reason(s) it shows whole movie compressed.
Reviewed by melissamariesteen 5 / 10

School Board Sucked

Cute idea for a movie, love all of these cheesy Christmas movies. Acting is okay but if we look at the storyline, that is the nastiest and most unhelpful school board I have ever seen. Straight up disgusting towards the main character. I would recommend her going to a different school to try to be the new vice principal. Only three children coming to visit and the school board has no money, no way to help and is just nasty throughout. If I was a parent, I would straight up pull my child out. It would be a dream to have a vice principal that cared that much about her children and future programs.
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