Two children (a boy and a girl) planted a Christmas tree in the courtyard of the church. They wanted to plant a tree every year, but they weren't allowed to. Then the children decided to decorate this tree every year. And at the beginning we are shown that the girl looks at the boy. Jumping 10 years ahead, Sadie and Ben are graduates, and, independently of each other, in conversation with other people, assure that there is only friendship between them. The main action takes place 10 years later, in 2007.
How do you think this movie will end? Christmas romcom. Will Sadie and Ben realize they love each other? Damn, it's so predictable that you can't even use sarcasm! You’ll say, “They don’t watch movies because of the story, but because of the atmosphere.” Well, then I didn't feel the atmosphere. Besides, I've been friends with a girl half my life. Then she got married and moved to another city. I never saw her as a potential second half. Therefore, I laugh at the statement “there is no friendship between a man and a woman” and extremely skeptical of the plot “for years they were friends, and then suddenly realized that they love each other.”
You say, "You didn't like it because Ben and Sadie are black." Not at all. Last winter, I watched a romcom anthology called "Let It Snow," like "Love Actually" for teenagers. In one of the novels was the plot as in the "Christmas Pact". Guy and girl are white. Moreover, the girl is dearly loved by me Kiernan Shipka, for which I watched the movie. Even with the presence of my favorite, this line I called the weakest in the anthology. “Christmas Treaty” saddled this theme and sagged on it until the final.