Coyote Creek Christmas

Synopsis:

Paige is a successful event planner but now she’s going home to her parents inn over Christmas. When she arrives, to her dismay, she finds out that her parents have scaled back the Inn’s traditional Christmas celebrations that they usually have for the guests. Paige immediately starts to organize a celebration as it should be. At the same time the Inn is visited by Dylan and his son Noah. They are on their way to celebrate Christmas at the Grand Canyon. What Paige don’t know is that her parents plan to sell the Inn and that Dylan, who runs a hotel chain together with his brother, is there to check it out as a potential buyer.

Quick Thoughts:

This is a decent holiday film, but “Coyote Creek Christmas” is only kinda a queer holiday film. Yes, Hallmark included a lesbian character here – but she’s the desk clerk at the inn who’s crushing after the girl who occasionally performs music at the inn. They barely gets any screen time and other than being used when relevant to the main heterosexual storyline, could be taken out and not affect the film. Hallmark has been doing this often in more recent years, even when we get Hallmark holiday films focusing on queer storylines. While it’s always nice to see a world that has LGBTQ characters included, it feels like a DEI inclusion than a subplot important to the story.

If you want a queer holiday film, I’d skip this one. But if you don’t mind a typical Hallmark heterosexual holiday romance, it’s not a bad film.