Since November 2009Chick Flick Tuesday: Holiday in Handcuffs
Posted on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 by Leah
Chick Flick Tuesday highlights the best chick flicks in the movie world as well as bringing you news on upcoming chick flick releases as well as letting you all know about which chick lit books are being made into chick flick movies!
This week I’ve chosen a lovely, Christmas-y movie for our Chick Flick Tuesday.I watched Holiday in Handcuffs last Christmas and I thought it was a lovely, sweet movie. It was only a TV movie, shown on ABC Family in America, but you can purchase a DVD copy if you wish! The fact Melissa Joan Hart stars made it all the more perfect for me as I loved her as Sabrina and she’s fantastic in this! Plus there’s a sequel in the works, hurray!
Unlucky in life and love, quirky waitress Trudie (Melissa Joan Hart) takes the holidays — and the law — into her own hands. Unable to brave Christmas with her family as a single woman, Trudie kidnaps restaurant customer David Martin (Mario Lopez) and introduces him to her family as her boyfriend. Unable to escape the family vacation house, David agrees to play along until the police arrive. In the meantime, however, David ponders his own romantic life, and questions if he is falling in love with Trudie despite the unlikely circumstances.
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Deborah Wright’s latest book 
and the unfortunate love affair she has with an Italian is an exaggerated fictionalisation of something I suffered. Other parts of the book are based on places I’d love to go to, so the research was hugely enjoyable. When she goes to Sicily and climbs Mt Etna, I watched videos on youtube of Etna erupting, spraying glorious red showers into the sky. The crazy Las Vegas chapter was great fun to write, but it’s another place I’ve not yet been to – so I had to call up my brother and ask him for anecdotes.
Maggie Storm is really fed up her life. Her husband Dave only ever speaks to her when he wants a cup of tea or the sitting room to be hoovered, and her son Dean isn’t the model child either. She works as a cleaner for families who make her feel worthless, and she doesn’t know why she puts up with it. When she meets Daryl by chance at a neighbour’s house, Maggie gets a glimpse of what it could be like to be loved properly, but something is holding her back. Maggie made a New Year’s Resolution to hold back on what she wants and what she thinks, and she doesn’t want to break it just yet.
This book was brought to my attention by Cathy Kelly when she posted it on Facebook last week, and I thought it was such a good idea, especially at this time of year I wanted to bring it to your attention. In aid of The Jack & Jill Foundation, a selection of Irish personalities have written some short stories based around the idea of Christmas. Authors include Cathy Kelly, Maeve Binchy, Niall Quinn and Eddie Hobbs. So if you fancy helping a charity and having a bit of festive read, look out for a copy of There’s No Place Like Home At Christmas.
