Danica McKellar and Dustin Mulligan star in this Christmas Hallmark TV movie entitled, "Christmas At The Love Table". Lea Thompson, Scott Patterson and Alexandra Paul co-stars. It tells the story of two childhood friends, Kat and Sam, who spend Christmas at Elissa Beth Dixon's home yearly. It chronicles their ups and downs through the years from their childhood until the next two decades. As expected, we get to realize that what that there is more to it than friendship as it was actually love that they have had all through the years.

Too bad that despite have familiar supporting cast members, the story practically focused on Sam and Kat conversations that it could be overbearing to the viewer. Although they did have comic dialogues, I just felt that both dominated the the whole movie. Great thing that both Danica and Dustin have great chemistry. But with a movie having them talking with each other almost all scenes, it would have been too much. As a matter of fact, the Christmas decorations were practically the supporting cast. Nevertheless, fans of the charming Danica,Hallmark movies, and Christmas movies will find joy in it .

This is one of the most unique Christmas romance stories I have seen. Things happen near and at the end that I sure didn't see coming. The entire movie is refreshing. The entire movie is a continuing flashback that takes place on several Christmas eves spanning most of the main characters' lives.

Sometimes the story doesn't advance a lot, but it is still entertaining with witty dialogue and other things. One of those is a beautiful dance sequence that is not so much about talented dancers as it is about the beauty and the romance of the dance which includes many of the cast.

Danica McKellar is known for Wonder Years but also for Christmas movies. This is possibly her best. The romance between her character, Kat, and Dustin Milligan's Sam is tangible. Supporting performances are also good.

I had a hard time with the timeline because I couldn't understand why two people so in love would have gone so long. I especially can't see how 5 years could have elapsed (as mentioned when Kat first sees Sam) and still led to what follows. An attempt is made to explain at least the former about 3/4ths of the way through the movie but I think the movie would have made a lot more sense if that had been plainer earlier on. Nevertheless, I don't deduct for that because the story is otherwise so charming and unique.

While I don't see Hallmark's signature on this, it fits their nature perfectly. For some people this will be too sappy and idealistic, but that's what these movies are and this one is done so well.

A rare thing for The Asylum... Well-paced. Well-written. Well-scored. Well-acted. The story is charming, and presented in a much better way than their other pictures. It feels more skilfully done, more professional, that I can scarcely believe it is an Asylum movie at all. It's only one setting, which obviously keeps costs down, but the writing is terrific. Asylum movies are generally reasonably well-shot but suffer cheesy, unnatural dialogue. Here the script is clearly superior to anything else I've seen produced by them.