The Brendan Perry character was obnoxiious in his refusal to allow his son to know his brother. Everyone else disagreed with him but he stubbornly refused cooperate. He said it was because his wife wanted to wait but everything changed and he was just not willing to relent. The Brendan Perry character was obnoxiious in his refusal to allow his son to know his brother. Everyone else disagreed with him but he stubbornly refused cooperate. He said it was because his wife wanted to wait but everything changed and he was just not willing to relent. Woul have been a better movie if he hadnt been so unreasonable.

Being adopted is one of the kindest shows of selfishness a person can show, but denying that adopted child the truth and even worse family is selfish, insensitive and abominable. Trying to tie deception to a flimsy excuse of a promise to wait for some magic number 10 indicates incompetence and immaturity as a parent. Zero empathy or loyalty to his child but blind loyalty to a person who is deceased? What?!! I'm just so disappointed that Hallmark thought that this behavior would make for a charming character that we are supposed to relate to. Not at all. What if his wife was actually alive and, say, his sister knew and hid that from him because she promised to protect the secret until he turned 50. How stupid is that? Come on. Do better...

Maddy's adopted son Wesley did a school family tree project and when they reached out to his social worker they found out he had a brother who was adopted into a family in the Utah ski resort town where Maddy's father owns and runs a hotel. When Maddy and Wesley head there for Christmas with the grandparents they meet widower Paul and his son Cody.

In the biggest coincidence on the planet Cody is Wesley's brother only Cody doesn't know he's adopted and Paul doesn't want to tell him because he and his wife agreed to wait until he was older and could handle it emotionally.

This was a great story about adoption and finding adopted families. As a romantic, I can't rave about the romance. But I can rave about a feel good family drama about adoption. If that is your jam for a holiday film...you will love this one.