Beth Spotswood December 16, 2020Updated: December 17, 2020, 7:06 am
Lauren and Josh Swickard star in the new Netflix film “A California Christmas.” The holiday romance film was filmed in Petaluma. Photo: Netflix
Petaluma is a teeny, tiny Podunk town in the rural hills of California, far from the skyscrapers and silver Ferraris of highfalutin San Francisco. At least, this is how the city is portrayed in Netflix’s new holiday movie, “A California Christmas,” a romantic tale of a real estate tycoon’s spoiled son and his abs who changes his philandering ways after meeting a breathtakingly beautiful farmer in short-shorts.
There are a myriad of minor issues with “A California Christmas,” which I suspect Netflix already knew about, given how the film was barely promoted before its Monday, Dec. 14, premiere. But I’m not here to review what amounts to a perfectly passable romantic comedy in the vein of your classic Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas trope. Huma