Miss Christmas

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Mike Rohl directs. Ryan McMaster behind the camera. Mark Adams cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 184 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
• 2Released 9 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Directed by Mike Rohl, shot by Ryan McMaster. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 5Editor Mark Adams shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 6Brooke D'Orsay and Marc Blucas and Luke Roessler carry the top of the cast.
• 7IMDB entry: tt7588798 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 8Only 82 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography

Ryan McMaster

Editing

Mark Adams

Costume design

Barbara Gregusova

Stunt coordinator

Brett Armstrong

Runtime

84 min · 1h 24m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

IMDB

Miss Christmas (2017) ↗

Also by

Mike Rohl

• 
  Hope Island

  1999 · ★ 10.0
• 
  When Hope Calls

  2019 · ★ 8.5
• 
  Supernatural

  2005 · ★ 8.3
• 
  Angela's Eyes

  2006 · ★ 8.3
• 
  When Calls the Heart

  2014 · ★ 8.3
• 
  Higher Ground

  2000 · ★ 8.2

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

• 

  ▶
  Miss Christmas - Starring Brooke D'Orsay and Marc Blucas

  Trailer · Official

Community reviews

What people are saying

• Reno2018-02-04
  ★ 5/10

  Don't kill, just celebrate Christmas with a live tree! It's December, so TV channels are flooded with Christmas films. But this is not my first Christmas film of the season. And Hallmark films are easily a go for it. TV movies have simple stories, so don't they to surprise me all the time. To create a story around Christmas is not that easy, because there are hundred of films comes every year based on the same festival. How it all starts and ends are almost predictable, but topic on which it rides on is very important. This one was about the tree. The decorated tree in the city centre that delights all the Chicagoans. But its responsibility to make sure are things are taken care comes under a young woman named Holly aka Miss Christmas. Just a week to go, Holly has reached the source destination for her new tree, but trouble awaits. That the family who own the tree is divided over donating it for some sentimental reason. Now she has to convince them, and how she does that with other personal events unfolds in the rest of the film. Being an animal and tree lover, I hated her approach. I never support such cruel act, just to please someone to enjoy the festival by killing a tree. Not just one, billions of people do it around the world which brings catastrophe in nature every year. Apart from that, the film was average. A family film, particularly for the female audience. 5/10

  Read full review ↓

Key crew

• Stunt CoordinatorBrett Armstrong
• Art DirectionKat Dombsky
• MusicPatric Caird
• Costume DesignBarbara Gregusova
• EditorMark Adams
• Set DecorationRacquel Roper
• NovelGigi Garrett
• ProducerGreg Malcolm
• ProducerVicki Sotheran

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• holiday
• christmas

Release history · US

When it landed

• TV2017-11-05· Hallmark Channel

Also known as

International titles

• Мис КоледаBG