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Love, Lights, and Hanukkah! It s December, and that can only mean one thing: an incessant stream of made-for-TV holiday movies. Last year, Lifetime and Hallmark, the two biggest producers of cheap holiday movies, introduced viewers to the novel concept of Hanukkah movies. You might be wondering what s a Hanukkah movie? And the answer is that it s a movie about Christmas that also has a little Hanukkah involved. This year s offering,
Love, Lights, and Hanukkah!, is an extremely bland, surprisingly sweet film about a woman who takes a DNA test and finds out she s 50% Jewish. Now, she has to learn the overwhelming complexities of Hanukkah (a very simple holiday), in addition to feeding her staggering love of Christmas.
‘Love, Lights, Hanukkah’ Hallmark Movie Star from Family of Holocaust Survivors
In the new Hallmark Channel holiday movie
Love, Lights, Hanukkah! a gorgeous young woman in the restaurant business, Christina (
Mia Kirshner), discovers from a DNA test that she’s half Jewish. The discovery leads her to her biological mother Ruth (
Marilu Henner,
Ben Savage).
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Twinkling Christmas trees and flickering Hanukkah candles are the illuminating bookends of the Hallmark Channel’s newest seasonal movie, Love, Lights, Hanukkah!
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