Kristen Stewart

Mackenzie Davis

Mary Steenburgen

Victor Garber

Alison Brie

Mary Holland

Dan Levy

Burl Moseley

Aubrey Plaza

Sarayu Blue

Jake McDorman

Ana Gasteyer

Caroline Harris

Jenny Gulley

Dominique Allen Lawson

Michelle Buteau

Carla Gallo

Timothy Simons

Lauren Lapkus

Jinkx Monsoon

BenDeLaCreme

Anis N'Dobe

Asiyih N'Dobe

Sean Michael Weber

Sarab Kamoo

Chelsea Banglesdorf

Liron Blumenthal

Daryn Kahn

Matt Newell

Dave Maulbeck

Donald John Hewitt

Christopher Jon Gombos

Daina Griffith

Daniel Krell

Dominique Briggs

Jonathan Berry

Gina Jun

Daniel Johnson

Eric Rasmussen

Kim H. Winther

Laurel Thomson

Adam Richards

Isaac Klausner

Clea DuVall

Marty Bowen

Wyck Godfrey

Jonathan McCoy

Helena Barrett

Ashley Pynn

Rich Schutte

Amanda Rotzler

Brad Towell

Avital Siegel

Brad J. Bakelmun

Hal Rosenfeld

Kevin Konitsch

Anthony Mecca

Darcie Buterbaugh

Tom Morrison

Bethany Dilucente

Alexis Owen-Guenther

Miranda Wodzinski

Richard E. Chapla Jr.

Yev Shrayber

Dan Sotak

Kimberly Amacker

James Croal Jackson

Jake Salcudean

Dylan Martin

Tina Fabulic

Ray Tasillo

Rachael M. Roth

Darin Rivetti

Nathaniel Peters

Cynthia E. Thornton

Stefan Fraticelli

Dylan McCully

Isaac Shuppas

Stephanie Tolksdorf

Donna M. Belajac

Deb Adair

Rob Fiks

Gina Lamonica

Stacey Panepinto

Ian Mclaughlin

Kelly Richardson

April Schuller

Armando Ballesteros

Denair Isaac

Keith Seymour

Giela Fredman

Kamari Somers

Ron Mellegers

Damon Tedesco

Doug Coleman

Emmanuel Savary

Michael W. Craven

Alta Marie Bialon

Chris Ruppenthal

John Finnell

Mark Gazica

Ginny Minuto

Natalie Goldstein

Alyssa Batchelor

Anthony Cargioli

Jim Kateluzos

James Pastorius

H Haden Hammond

Luke Ewing

Season Kent

Olivia Becker

Jon D. Morrison

Dakota Hadix

Lacey Terrell

Bálint Oltvai

Erin Rose Kelly

Frank Conforti

Alyssa Park

Natasha Leonnet

Lindsey Waltonbaugh

Don Yockey

Taylor Flick

Eric Dilucente

Billy Cole

Nathaniel Fitzgerald

Adam Shahen

Mark Perzely

Paul Hammond

Doug Cronin

Jason Jouver

Cabernet Murray

Nathan Matt

Heidi Germaine Schnappauf

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Happiest Season

Temple Hill Entertainment

United States of America

English

coming out

marriage proposal

holiday

romantic comedy

lesbian relationship

in the closet

orphan

family holiday

lgbt

woman director

holiday season

pittsburgh, pennsylvania

christmas

candid

mayoral campaign

sister sister relationship

playful

lesbian

joyous

dramatic

sentimental

amused

familiar

hopeful

sympathetic

Kamurai

Great watch, would watch again, and do recommend.

There is a huge advantage in knowing as little as possible about a movie before watching it: mostly it removes expectations, and allows little surprises to delight you through the movie.

I watched it because it was a Kristen Stewart movie, but was happily surprised to see Clea Duvall involved, and continually delighted to see familiar faces appear: Mary Holland, Alison Brie, and Aubrey Plaza especially.

I'm honestly not familiar with "a lot" of "coming out of the closet, but not quite yet" stories, but I have seen a lot of "secrets for the holidays", and "don't tell my family x", and this is very interesting that it uses that concept to knock the wind out of the sails of the story so early.

While the majority of the story is basically abuse humor, it's delivered in a way that manages to both garner sympathy for Abbie and be charmingly amusing.

If the movie has a real downside, then it's that it tries to do (almost) too many things, but manages to pull it off.  Yeah, I pretty much hate Harper, but that's by design, and she's a victim as much as a villain.  The shift in stories as things all start to resolve is the "worst" part of it, but ultimately makes for a satisfying ending.

Peter McGinn

I was surprised by how much I liked this Hulu Christmas offering, since you can get jaded at the number of holiday romantic movies the various sources  crank out every year. The movie seems to combine several sub genres here, the familiar gay coming out, dysfunctional holiday family, even bordering in romantic triangle territory.

Martin Levy’s son does him proud, as Dan Levy was a real scene stealer here. I quickly decided the more of him, the better. The chemistry between the two leads wasn’t quite evident to me and I am not sure why. I saw more chemistry between Harper and Abby’s ex-girlfriend Riley, actually. Also, I think an opportunity was lost in the perpetually frowning two kids. They should have been allowed a bit more personality I think. (And what is up with all the gender neutral names for many of the female characters here? Harper, Tipper, Sloan, Riley, Harry, Kelly and Ashley. Weird. 

Mary Steenburgen does her usual competent job playing the wife and matriarch, though I felt they let her fade a little into the background until she asserts herself near the end. 

So while this movie won’t enter my cycle of Christmas movies to watch annually, I enjoyed it just fine (tinged with the shadow of regret that it wouldn’t have taken much more to be very good). The writers do not have many film credits, so I hope they continue to write and improve. I won’t change the channel if I run across it in the future.

I usually avoid Christmas movies but some of those names grabbed me - Mack Davis, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, and more. All put in a great performance, the story made sense, the plot was well done, and it was a nice little town - all good.

Happiest Season Christmas Day Q+A with the Cast and Director

Happiest Season: Makeup Tutorial with Jinkx Monsoon and Ben DeLaCreme • A Hulu Original

Happiest Season: Creating A Holiday Rom-Com (Featurette) • A Hulu Original

Happiest Season: Holiday Yule Log Scenic • A Hulu Original

Happiest Season: Tegan And Sara "Make You Mine This Season" (Lyric Video) • A Hulu Original

Rapid Fire Questions: Mackenzie Davis & Kristen Stewart • Happiest Season • A Hulu Original

Happiest Season( 2020)

This holiday, everyone's secrets are coming out.

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A review by Kamurai

Written by Kamurai on Mon Nov 30 2020

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