Trading Christmas with Faith Ford

Hallmark Channel has been running Christmas movies for weeks. They are light, happy, predictable heart string tuggers. I watched Faith Ford in Trading Christmas, a romantic comedy about a man and woman who trade homes for the holidays, and she meets his brother and he meets her best friend, and well, the rest is all about falling in love. I think they get repeated, so if you missed it, check the listings.

It’s also fun, once in a while, to watch a movie where we meet no bad people. The only two unpleasant characters here never show up on screen. We only hear about them, and from what we hear, we don’t dislike them as much as feel sorry for them, because we know what their selfishness will make them miss.

If you’re watching “Trading Christmas” and you get a vague feeling you’ve seen it before, it’s possible you have. Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet made a movie called “The Holiday” in 2006 that followed pretty much the same blueprint.