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Scouting for Christmas

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Scouting for Christmas (2024) - Hallmark My apologies my friends for last year, as an unpaid Hallmarky Christmas Movie Consultant, I was derelict in my duties.  Usually me and my Consulting Partner Lisa spit out between 20 to 40 of these hard hitting essays each year but last year I only did a couple.  There were extenuating circumstances of course, but as an old ball coach used to tell us, excuses are like nostrils (he didn't say nostrils), everybody has one.  This year however we are back on it, no longer shirking my duties as an unpaid Holiday movie consultant. Angela (Tamera Mowry-Housley) is a hard working real-estate agent and somewhat neglectful mom to the spunky 10-year old Brooklyn (Audrey Wise Alvarez).  Meaning she's always late picking up Brooklyn up from school to take her to her girl scout meetings, leaving Brooklyn to trek on down to the local bakery to avoid freezing to death, and beg for food.  In the real world, perhaps protective services shou...