TINA LIFFORD MOVIE
So does Jazmin live with Mama Belle when she’s not traveling? Because there’s no way all those winter coats (much less anything else) she wore in the movie fit in that itty bitty red carry-on suitcase she arrived with. Why did this movie not spring for more background actors? A basketball competition with 30 people cheering on the players? A poetry slam with 12 people in the audience? How are we to believe this Christmas Jamboree is for ALL of Harlem (which a character said at some point in the movie) when attendance is so low to every event? Surely they could have cast another 20-25 people to try to make it look like it was more than a few family members watching the game? Especially since the crowd noise they piped in made it seem like a couple hundred were there.īut that wasn’t the only scene that had sparse background actors. That basketball competition was sparsely attended. Did I Hear/See That Right?Ī good portion of the start of the movie had ADR sound and it was VERY distracting. And then they decorated the tree at the hardware store. Jazmin takes over control of the Christmas festivities once Mama Bella gets injured. Does it count as “going to hometown from big city” when the “hometown” is only a few stops up the subway line?
Lead character has a Christmas themed name (Mama Belle). TropesĬGI snow started the movie off the bat. Olivia Washington and Tina Lifford were great together in every scene. The main character connection I loved was between Mama Belle and Jazmin, grandmother and granddaughter. The fact that Caleb had an unrequited crush on Jazmin truly felt like a schoolboy experience while watching the movie, versus two peers.
I do know that Washington is 30 years old). Throughout the whole movie I felt like he was very young compared to her (I tried to find out the actor’s age, to no avail. The leading actors, Olivia Washington and Will Adams, had a weird energy. A successful corporate fixer, Jazmin expects the job to be easy but quickly finds that she has a lot to learn about the community and her heart. However, when Mama Belle is injured, Jazmin agrees to stay in the neighborhood and take over co-chairing their block’s annual Christmas Jamboree with her old best friend Caleb. The Plot of “A Holiday in Harlem”Īfter her grandmother, Mama Belle, turns away her usual gift delivery, expecting “presence over presents,” jetsetting executive Jazmin heads uptown to Harlem for a quick visit. But Olivia Washington and Tina Lifford were fabulous, and in the end I still liked enough of the movie to give it a positive score. Everyone spoke on a monotone and the story itself was lackluster. There were several things I liked, but the movie was very slow and so low energy that it took me three attempts to watch it because I kept falling asleep. Watching this movie was a weird experience. They also provided the song Piece of My Soul as people arrived for Christmas dinner.
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The mac & cheese making was provided by Juan & Lisa Winans, singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. The song that DJ Kwame played at the block party was Merry Christmas by AXS Music. Music: Louis Armstrong provided our opening credits song, Christmas Night in Harlem. With this movie poster, you know it’s set in NYC, and there aren’t too many cities more Christmas-y than NYC in December. One of my favorite things about NYC was the brownstones and their front stoops. The first apartment my husband and I shared had a front stoop.
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It’s the first full movie script for Matthews, while Powell has been not only an actor but a director as well, with this movie being his first for Hallmark. Matthews provided the screenplay while Keith Powell directed. The movie may be set in Harlem, but it was filmed in Hartford, Connecticut. “A Holiday in Harlem,” starring Olivia Washington, Will Adams and Tina Lifford, aired on November 14 during 2021’s Countdown to Christmas on Hallmark Channel.
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