dir. Don McBrearty
When a movie has “windmill” in the title, it shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a focus on windmills. And yet, there is just so much about windmills in Christmas on Windmill Way that it’s hard to be prepared. Mia (Christa Taylor Brown) works in a windmill that her great-grandfather built. Inside the windmill, they make small windmill models. There are in-depth windmill-related conversations, including the lumber used to make furniture in the windmill, the heritage of the windmill, safety checks of the windmill, and a clog-on-a-string messaging system within the windmill. Mia’s high school sweetheart Brady (Chad Michael Murray for some reason) returns to town, part of a realty group intent on knocking down the windmill. It all keeps coming back to the windmill. Oh, and it’s Christmas. With the classic “enemies to lovers” and “big bad corporation targets humble family business” themes, not to mention wooden acting, one-dimensional characters and awkward camerawork, this is a fairly typical Christmas film. Essentially, Christmas on Windmill Way is exactly what it sounds like – a clichéd Christmas rom-com, with an extra dose of windmills that no one asked for.
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