Loved the message of this movie that traditions as well as old buildings and history are worth saving. I am so tired of this new disposable culture who likes to say that they are green but then has to have everything new. The male lead, Nate, was fantastic and too good to be true. Beautiful Christmas tree lane in historic downtown Chicago. We really should be preserving history and learning from our past.

The biggest problem I have with this film is that Nate (played by Andrew W Walker) is supposed to work for a workaholic father who expects all his underlings to work long hours, and yet Nate never seems to do any real work while he's in his office. And Nate is barely in the office, since he seems to spend most of his time cavorting with Meg (played by Alicia Witt). So Nate seemed more like a plot device than a believable character.

A lesser problem is that the story is incredibly predictable. You know what the "complication" is going to be and you know what the conclusion is going to be.

Still, the too leads are pleasant enough and it's all pretty harmless and mildly entertaining, which is perhaps all you can really expect from an Xmas TV movie.

As much as I love both leads in this film, they are not two that I would put together and I think the film ends up being a bit middling, because the chemistry is not there, but it is a nice enough story.

How do you save a whole street that is due to be demolished? You put on a Christmas show of course, but what happens when the new hot guy in town turns out to be working for the developers?

Andrew W Walker is lovely here, but Alicia Witt is just a bit wrong in her part.