Rising pop star Layne Price (Dia Frampton) journeys back home to Nashville for the holidays, and where she hopes to cure a nasty case of writer’s block. While staying there, she crosses paths with longtime friend Cassie (Ashley Argota), who agrees to help her search for the girl that got away. Cassie, though, harbors secret feelings of her own. Can the advice of a psychic (Candis Cayne) help Layne cure her heartache?
Filmed on location in Nashville, I Hate New Years’ mixes a holiday fairytale with high-energy music. The movie also features a winning performance by Cayne, who might just be the fairy godmother every LGBTQ person has hoped for.
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Note: This article contains portions of previous posts containing Queerty’s holiday film recommendations.
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PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
While technically not a holiday movie, the last scene is at Thanksgiving dinner I suggest “Latter Days” an awesome love story about a Gay Mormon missionary finally accepting who he is.
If you are not crying like a baby during the restaurant scene where Christian drops the plates, you simply don’t possess a heart…
Jon in Canada
Absolutely! It’s arguably one of the best Gay films ever, though sadly underrated by many in my opinion. The acting is not cheesy and the pathos is real; especially in that scene you mentioned. A MUST SEE and OWN for any discerning gay man.
Cam
Great movie.
It’s score on Rotten Tomatoes would be even higher except the Mormon church pulled a scam. They own the paper the Desserat news and they had MULTIPLE critics from that same paper review it and turn in those reviews to RT to try to lower it’s score a bit.
If you haven’t seen Latter Days, stream it, it’s excellent.
BoomerMyles
I liked the movie until I watched an interview,with the two lead actors.
They came off obnoxiously “bro” and mentioned their girlfriends numerous times.
God forbid anyone would think they might be gay.
Ruined the film for me.
lather
Always Always Always TORCH SONG TRILOGY!
One of the best lgbtq movies of all time.
Kangol2
I agree about Torch Song Trilogy. BTW, what ever happened to that actor Eddie Castrodad, who played the foster-adopted son?
TwinPeaker
Wrong! Batman Returns is the BEST Batman film! Michelle Pfeiffer is magical as is the score by Danny Elfman.
Kieran
Why am I not surprised I’ve never seen “Make the Yuletide Gay” ever on TV, cable or otherwise. #StraightPrivilege.
sanfranca1
“The Christmas Setup” was very good, and I’ll watch it a second time.
“Dashing in December” not so much: it’s contrived, the acting seems amateurish, and Peter Porte, “Wyatt”, comes across as condescending, is very stilted, and appears to be uncomfortable in the role.
Cam
If you thought that about Dashing, then don’t watch the Hallmark one.
cubcmh
In college I had a gay friend who looked and sounded exactly like Hermie. I tried to convince him to go to dental school.
Charlie in Charge
The clear winner for me from this list is Batman Returns.
Having watched the three most-talked about gay Christmas “Hallmark style” movies I can say:
The Christmas Setup: Pretty great. Fran Drescher is the best and there is some fun, comedic innuendo in a few scenes, genuine chemistry and a touching historic twist in the story. If yo watch just one, pick this one.
Dashing in December: Decent. Some fun “country Christmas” scenes including a big line dancing set piece but diminished for me because the main characters say some HORRIBLE things to one another and I found myself thinking “OK you two should not be together.
The Christmas House: Very disappointing. There are three plots: The straight brother and his childhood sweetheart, the gay brother and his husband, and the two brothers’ parents. Of these three storylines the gay couple is a distant third with only one major scene devoted to them.
And oh I hate to say it but Christmas on the Square was just terrible in every imaginable way which is hard to do when you have Dolly Parton and Christine Baranski in the leading roles.
docmaker
“Shared Rooms” is not currently available on any platform. C’mon dudes. If you’re going to recycle content from previous years, the least you can do is make sure it is still accurate. Right?