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2015 · tv-movie · comedy · romance

A Christmas Detour

Directed by Ron Oliver1h 24m2015

ElsewhereIMDb6.24k

cosy
brisk
gentle
redemptive
tender

Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle tv-movie / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A bubbly bride-to-be’s Christmas plans take an unexpected turn when her holiday flight to New York is detoured and she encounters a cynical bar manager who has lost his faith in love. As she scrambles to make it back east for Christmas—and plan her upcoming wedding—she begins wondering if she’s marrying the right man, and learns a surprising lesson about love.

Our read · A Christmas Detour (2015) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded tv-movie · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast

Candace Cameron Bure Paul Greene Sarah Strange David James Lewis Marcus Rosner

Cast constellation

Candace Cameron Bure thread

Christmas Under Wraps

2014

Candace Cameron Bure thread

Candace Cameron Bure

near DNA

Candace Cameron Bure

actor path

Unsung Heronear DNA Christmas Under Wrapsnear DNA The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mysterynew register

Paul Greene

actor path

Autumn and the Black Jaguaradjacent A Wish for Christmasadjacent

Sarah Strange

actor path

Kindergarten Cop 2near DNA .45new register White Noisenew register

David James Lewis

actor path

A Fairly Odd Christmasadjacent Icarusnew register Stonehenge Apocalypsenew register

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The shape of A Christmas Detour

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy

Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic

Intensity · GentleExtreme

Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal

Hope · NihilisticRedemptive

Stakes · IntimateEpic

Humour · NoneBroad

Reality · GroundedFantastical

Density · SparseTwisty

Warmth · ColdTender

Auteur · TransparentSignature

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