A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL

Name: A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL
Item: A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL
Author: Review

"God Can Place You Where You Belong"

Content: +2 Moderately questionable elements.

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What You Need To Know:

A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL is a joyful Christmas romance on Great American Family. A young dance teacher, Chelsea Jones, travels to a small European country in search of her lost father. She hopes filling in the missing pieces of her deceased mother’s past will help her find the father she’s never known. However, when she meets dashing Prince Philip, she may have discovered something important to her future than her past.

A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL is an enchanting romance, complete with a castle and a kingdom to rule. Fine acting and good dialogue help bring the story home to viewers who appreciate Christmas. CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL also extols family, duty and helping needy people. In addition, a character tells Chelsea that she belongs “wherever God puts you.” However, the movie never mentions Jesus, even though the real magic of Christmas is in the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. That said, the story of love and service in A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL echoes the love and service that Jesus, the Son of God who died for our sins, brings to Earth.

Content:

(BB, C, Ro, A):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral worldview celebrates the Christmas season and extols family, service and duty to serve the less fortunate are extolled, and a main character says the lead female belongs “wherever God puts you,” but there’s no mention of Jesus or the real reason for the season and there are some Romantic elements placing unrealistic expectations on the very short-term relationship between the two romantic leads;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

No violence;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Light use of alcohol for celebration;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Nothing else objectionable.

More Detail:

A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL is a joyful Christmas romance on Great American Family.

Danica McKellar stars as Chelsea, an earnest and caring dance teacher. Chelsea is gifted at Christmastime with a trip to the small country of Havenshire to find the missing pieces of her family heritage. She doesn’t have much remaining of her late mother, but she does have a beautiful pendant necklace and a picture taken at the palace in Havenshire.

Chelsea travels a great distance just to find out from an overzealous guard that Havenshire is closed until after Christmas. She meets a kindly innkeeper and a mysterious bar guest who encourage her. They even give her tips on how to sneak into the palace.

Happily, the palace needs a dance teacher for the Prince. In the right place at the right time, Chelsea is hired. Chelsea soon discovers the mysterious bar room guest was none other than the Prince himself. Prince Philip has an aversion to learning the waltz. However, they have such an uncanny chemistry, he can’t help but to dance with Chelsea, who he coins his “breath of fresh air.”

As they grow closer, Chelsea learns that the waltz she teaches him will be instrumental helping him pick out his future bride from a few royally approved candidates on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, all the leads Chelsea has in finding the details of her mother’s existence at the castle many years before, have gone cold.

Christmas Eve arrives. The Prince must choose his bride. Chelsea can’t bear to see her the Prince become engaged to another person. So, she plans to skip the affair altogether. She laments that she doesn’t belong there. However, a special friend assures her she belongs wherever God puts her.

A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL is an enchanting Christmas romance, complete with a castle and a kingdom to rule. Fine acting and good dialogue help bring the story home to viewers who appreciate the Christmas season. CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL also extols family, duty and helping needy people. In addition, a character tells Chelsea that she belongs “wherever God puts you.”

However, the movie never mentions Jesus, even though the real magic of Christmas is in the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. That said, the story of love and service in A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL echoes the love and service that Jesus, the Son of God who died for our sins, brings to Earth in His Incarnation.