Christmas in Connecticut (1992)

Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who lost his cabin in a fire, comment on TV about wishing he could get a home-cooked Christmas dinner, he arranges for a special live show on Christmas, for Elizabeth to cook him Christmas Dinner. Only Elizabeth can't cook, and trying to keep Jefferson and the viewing public from finding out on a live show may be a little difficult. Now listen i have never seen the original Christmas in Connecticut from 1945 i only seen this version cause it's directed by Arnold "Freaking" Schwarzenegger and for the most part i enjoyed it a lot first of all Dyan Cannon and Kris Kristofferson have a great chemistry together and their both energetic and funny and the same goes for Tony Curtis in fact 2 years later Arnold was meant to work with his daughter in James Cameron's underrated action comedy True Lies (1994) also Arnold Schwarzenegger himself has a cameo about one hour and sixteen minutes into the movie, Schwarzenegger is shown outside sitting at a table and speaking into a cell phone in front of the network's satellite uplink truck and there's even a Terminator reference where one of the characters says "I'll Be Back" plus Peter Kent Arnie's long time friend and stunt double has a cameo as a Cop and Wendle Josepher plays A.D. one of the crew members and she also appears in Last Action Hero (1993) as Candy Girl. I wish it was a bit more funny at times and there's a very dumb scene where a gun shot can be heard and for some stupid reason Cannon covers her eyes instead of her ears? That was a bit stupid but if you want to see a fun and romantic comedy with a pretty good and talented cast and a very talented actor behind the camera you might actually have fun with it but if you want to see a better Directed Schwarzenegger work go and check out his Tales from the Crypt Episode. (8/10)

Stultifying TV-made remake of the 1945 chestnut starring Barbara Stanwyck. As directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger (!), this romantic comedy begins with a terrific bit of television-oriented satire involving Dyan Cannon as the hostess of a popular cooking program. Cannon (vivacious as ever) doesn't know her way around a kitchen, and so has cue cards in front of her and lackeys handing her props out of camera range. It's a wonderfully sly bit of prodding at manufactured show-biz 'magic'...however, once the contrived plot kicks in, the film loses that fresh, funny edge. Dyan has to pretend to be a family-oriented country gal in a publicity stunt which pairs her with recent wilderness hero Kris Kristofferson, and the rest you can write yourself. There isn't a spontaneous or uplifting moment in the mix as our glowing couple grows closer and closer, while she is forced to dislocate herself from the awful truth. A better movie might have been had just by keeping Cannon in the city working on her show, maybe with Kristofferson as her cooking guest. Sadly, the writing here was aiming for Bigger! Better! Funnier! while out-of-his-element Schwarzenegger darts around hoping to exploit every crash for knee-slapping laughs. They fail to arrive.

I've got this movie for my birthday, but I certainly wouldn't have bought it. It's unbelievable how a remake can be this awful. I'm not saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a bad director, but I think somebody else would have made a better movie out of it. The jokes are stupid, the acting is extremely bad, the story seems to go nowhere. It's a shame to waste the talent of these actors. I've only seen it once, and after that one time, I had enough of it. So, I'll give it a 1/5.

I know, I know. It probably sucked. And i really don't like Dyan Cannon; talk about a chick who's afraid to age.But i LOVED this movie. It was a total 'feel good' production... no big downers, only delight.try it, with an eye towards entertainment. i'm sure you'll like it!(admittedly, this is no "Auntie Mame" :)