COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS (2023)

Name: COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS (2023)
Item: COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS (2023)
Author: Review

"Can a Fake Relationship Turn Into Real Love?"

Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

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What You Need To Know:

In COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS, Tiffany and Peter meet by chance. They quickly cook up a scheme to fake a relationship to make their exes jealous and win them back from their new partners. Tiffany and Peter start spending time together, telling their friends and family they’ve been dating for awhile. However, as they grow closer together, they start to wonder if their fake relationship is really so fake. Things get messy when Tiffany’s mother mistakenly thinks Peter proposed.

COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS is now playing on Great American Family and Peacock. It’s a funny romantic comedy, with good performances from the leads, Sara Canning and Marcus Rosner. The movie does a good job of building Tiffany and Peter’s relationship. COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS has a strong moral worldview, with some Christian, redemptive elements. It stresses helping and encouraging others, charity and forgiveness. Also, characters celebrate Christmas and talk about the holiday’s traditions. However, the main plotline in COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS centers on lying and deceiving others. There are also a few scenes featuring alcohol. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger viewers.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral worldview, with light Christian, redemptive elements where characters are shown helping others (most notably with two supporting characters who share a commitment to charity work), forgiving other people, encouraging people to go for what they want, celebrating Christmas, and talking about the traditions of the holiday, such as decorating trees and singing carols, but no other mention besides the carols of the Christian elements of Christmas;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

No violence;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Two scenes show characters drinking at a bar, and another scene shows people drinking alcohol at a party;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Romantic couple lie to woman’s family and friends throughout the movie to keep up their ruse of fake dating, they also want to break up two happy relationships for their own personal gain, lead female character is a little rude to another woman at the beginning of the movie but apologizes at the end, and romantic couple argue when the man confronts her about how what they’re doing is wrong, but she eventually apologizes.

More Detail:

COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS follows Tiffany and Peter, two strangers who meet by chance and cook up a scheme to make their exes jealous and win them back. However, as the two grow closer, they start wondering if their fake relationship isn’t so fake.

In COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS, Tiffany and Peter meet when they accidentally grab each other’s suitcases while getting off a bus. They go their separate ways. Meanwhile, Tiffany gets ready to celebrate Christmas with her family and win back old boyfriend, Brett. Once she gets to the house, her plans come to a screeching halt when she’s introduced to Matilda, Brett’s girlfriend.

Tiffany runs into Peter again at a local bar, both drowning their sorrows. Peter had come to town to get back together with ex-girlfriend, Lorraine, but found out she had already found another man. The pair come up with a plan. Pretend to date each other, making their respective exes jealous and breaking up their relationships, leaving them free to get back together with their exes, Brett and Lorraine.

Tiffany and Peter start spending time together, telling their friends and family they’ve been dating for a while. The pair grow close, sharing their dreams (Tiffany always thought about pursuing an art career) and stories (Peter lost his father at a young age). Things get even messier when Tiffany’s mother mistakenly thinks Peter proposed, and the two go along with the “engagement.”

Peter begins to think about pursuing a real relationship with Tiffany. However, after Tiffany has a conversation with Brett, she’s certain that, if she and Peter end their fake engagement, Brett will break up with Matilda and get back together with her. The pair argue at a surprise engagement party Tiffany’s family threw for them and tell people the engagement is over.

After conversations with her sister, Brett, and Matilda, Tiffany realizes she has feelings for Peter. However, she thinks it’s too late, because Peter left the party with Lorraine. Lorraine did try to rekindle things with Peter, but he tells her it wouldn’t work.

Will Peter and Tiffany find out who they really love?

Now playing on Great American Family and Peacock, COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS is a funny romantic comedy. It features lively performances from leads Sara Canning and Marcus Rosner. The movie does a good job of building Tiffany and Peter’s relationship. Fans of romantic comedies will enjoy this Christmas-themed take on the “fake relationship” movie formula.

COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS has a strong moral worldview with some Christian, redemptive elements. Characters help and encourage each other, as well as showing forgiveness. Matilda and Brett work for the Peace Corps, Matilda does other charity work, and the pair are praised for their commitment to helping others. Also, characters celebrate Christmas and talk about the traditions of the holiday, such as decorating trees and singing carols. However, there’s no other mention besides the carols of the Christian elements of Christmas. Also, the main plotline centers around Tiffany and Peter continuously lying to Tiffany’s family and friends. They enter into this scheme in order to break up two happy relationships. Finaly, some brief scenes feature alcohol. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.