Cut straight to the chase, it's
12 DAYS OF GIVING
In Which - A man wins $50k and gives a bunch of it away, re-igniting the world's sense of Christmas Cheer and helping him understand He Never Actually Loved His Fiancee and He Should Get With This Single Mom He Meets Instead.
I kept wanting to call the main guy Riley for some reason. No his actual name is Baxter. And he is a really mediocre photographer who likes taking pictures of branches, well, no wonder you can't sell any photos at your gallery showing, Baxter, your pictures kinda suck! But you have a good heart, and this is evident when you win a sweepstakes drawing and take the $50k cash payout instead of the new Corvette and then start secretly giving it away to people to make their Christmases awesome. What a nice dude!
However geez you have a toxic relationship with your fiance who just wants mo' money for like...fancy dresses and a big honeymoon and a nicer wedding and I mean I guess those are good things to do with money but she just gives me really weird vibes. Why are you with he-ohhh wait I bet you won't be for long! (I'm getting better at predicting these things!)
Riley/Baxter does start creepily taking pictures of people he gives away his money too and that seems a little strange, but he's a photographer so I guess that's okay?
Hey in just 5 movies we have our second movie where the Main Guy is going to Fall In Love with the Single Mom because Her Son is Really Into Hockey and the Main Guy Can Help With That. This is the trope I didn't see coming, but here we go.
Also a trope is characters talking about the "the big concert/event/play coming up!" and then it's at the end of the movie and it's just the tiniest little room with about 8 people in this room for this Big Christmas Event, look, I get it, movie extras are expensive when you're on that Hallmark Movie Budget, it just makes me chuckle.
Baxter definitely engages in some light emotional cheating with Single Mom for a couple days before admitting oh yeah wait I'm actually engaged to someone else (cue Act 2-3 romantic confusion) but all is saved in the end as the Single Mom's Son pulls childlike shenanigans to get them back together again. Nice and simple to have Baxter's fiancee break up with him because he's giving too much money away to strangers, that was convenient and he didn't even have to play the "Hey I have a Single Mom Side Chick I'm Trynna Get With" card.
Nothing fancy, nothing special, I give it 6 Polaroid Pictures out of 10.
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