At last, I have found the cinematic equivalent of a chartreuse flying unicorn! I have found a Christmas romance movie involving marriage that is funny, clean, and on top of all that, it is religious! It’s a pre-Christmas miracle! If you’ve read my blog for long, you know I have expressed the wish to find a movie about married love that is positive and clean. They are hard to find, because they usually either show an extra-marital affair, and/or denigrate marriage by showing it as a tragedy that the partners are trapped in.

Since I expressed that desire to find a romantic movie about marriage years ago on my blog, I have found a few, but this one is the BEST, because it soooo funny, and it promotes the Christ aspect of Christmas, not just Santa Claus. This is better than any Christmas Hallmark movie! Those movies are fun, but the cheese is so abundant I feel like I’ve been digging through a block of Brie by the time the movie is over. Sans the cheese, this movie has so many laugh-out loud moments, such that I was so grateful to have stumbled upon it for my date night with my husband this past week. I love the big jovial family energy that exudes around the Christmas Eve Dinner table. It just makes me want to be Greek! The trailer is below and the full movie is at the bottom of this post.

The name of it is Christmas with the Karountzoses. It’s about a guy with Greek ancestry who learns to appreciate his marriage, family, crazy relatives, and Christ, a lot more than he did at the beginning of the story. I give it 5 out of 5 stars. The acting was great, the theme was wonderful, it’s well written, and it’s totally clean. I felt the Holy Spirit as it mentioned Christ’s sacrifice for us. Unlike Hallmark Christmas movies, which I do enjoy, the cheese factor is limited, and I couldn’t predict the plotline, like I can with Hallmark movies because they are soooo forumulaic.

It’s free on YouTube. The star of the show, Robert Kranz, wrote it and directed it as well. It looks like he has started a company to produce lots of wholesome clean movies. See his message above. Thank you Mr. Kranz for such a wonderful movie! What a gift you have given!