Hallmark closes out its second weekend of holiday programming with Joyeux Noel. This international romance stars Jaicy Elliot and Brant Daugherty — who also cowrote the movie with his wife, Kim Daugherty. The movie takes us far away from Connecticut, where every Hallmark movie seems to be set this year, as our leads try to uncover the truth behind a lost French love story. But is this a story worth publishing? Or should this one have stayed locked in a music box?
JOYEUX NOEL: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: Jaicy Elliot (Grey’s Anatomy) plays Lea, a copy editor for a big city newspaper who dreams of two things: becoming a published journalist and finding a doctor of medium height to marry. Her mom, however, thinks she’s being too picky and waiting for the perfect love story — and then Lea finds one, although this love story is not her own. Lea finds the story written …