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  • 2709 points Due_Low5498

    Hallmark furiously taking notes**

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    2005 points MyGirlfriendforcedMe

    Dumplings of love coming Christmas of 2026

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    320 points TheStupendusMan

    The dumplings would be coming Sept. / Oct. 2027, realistically.

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    157 points LostWoodsInTheField

    hallmark can pump out a movie in 4 months. year is the longest often. Filming is usually around 15 days.

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    20 points Earlier-Today

    There's this one actress who's in a ton of their movies - Lacey Chabert - who's been in over 40 of their movies and she does around four a year.

    And that's just her movies - they pump out tons more. Across all of their platforms it can be north of 100 movies this year from them.

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    9 points chux4w

    She is so fetch.

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    41 points TheStupendusMan

    Boy, I wish I could post GIFs on this sub...

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    38 points Toymaker218

    Just to be clear, it's a pregnancy joke, right?

    Took me a second to piece it together.

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    29 points TheStupendusMan

    Yarp. Dumplings. Buns in the oven. All the fun little food names for babies.

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    3 points Stucklikegluetomyfry

    Oh like that movie Dumplings from Hong Kong

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    20 points inplayruin

    Shanghai Shalom

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    8 points TheStupendusMan

    Get Jackie Chan on the phone!

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    60 points FloppieTheBanjoClown

    General Tso's Christmas

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    41 points WhyAmIStillHere86

    General Tso’s Hanukkah

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    16 points YakResident_3069

    Starring John Cho.

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    21 points darkstarr99

    With Bowen Yang as his sassy friend/relative that keeps telling him he needs to find someone

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    11 points YakResident_3069

    Jimmy o yang as his married best friend his mom always compares him to

    Why cant you be married like your best friend Alan and give me grandkids? He went to ivy league.

    Mom - constance Wu or someone older like Ming na wen.

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    3 points Worthyness

    both playing Japanese americans because you can just get any random asian dude and they can play any other asian dude.

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    5 points teacuptypos

    Ngl I would love to see John Cho as a romantic lead. I would watch the hell out of this.

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    3 points WhyAmIStillHere86

    Or William Goldberg

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    4 points the_pretender_nz

    Hoi Sin Hanukkah.

    No wait - Char Jew Bao (chicka bow wow)

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    16 points throwawaytoday9q

    Nah, they can totally ram this through before Christmas 2025

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    8 points radiohead-nerd

    Kosher Moo Shu

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    7 points EddtheBoss

    Dude I laughed so hard, I farted 

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    3 points KhaleesiXev

    I’m watching it and ordering Chinese takeout.

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    3 points HotDonnaC

    💀

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    2 points Maniak4126

    I don't like you very much.

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    196 points RaveGuncle

    Hallmark: Okay but like, the Chinese restaurant owner is actually the white son-in-law who was widowed on Christmas several years ago and gave up on love but carried the family business bc he loved the family so much.

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    110 points RealityOk9823

    *furious scribbling of notes intensifies*

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    53 points Famous_Bit_5119

    Sarah Silverman as the widow.

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    57 points Anxious-Chemistry-6

    Absolutely not. She can't look tooooooo Jewish. So they'll say she's like 1/64th Jewish and she'll be played by Sydney Sweeney. Duh.

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    46 points SnooPets8873

    Then they’ll rewrite to say she isn’t Jewish but stopped having Christmas because it reminds her too much of her white, Protestant family who were tragically lost.

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    33 points DontAskAboutMyButt

    Also a Chinese restaurant is too ethnic, let’s change it to a white Christian Christmas bakery and also everyone has to be blond and Christian

    — one of the producers 5 minutes before filming starts

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    11 points HotDonnaC

    Were they stuck in the chimney on Christmas Eve?

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    10 points Alternative_Jury2480

    Well the first to go was grandma, horrifically run over by a reindeer walking home from their house

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    5 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    7 points Anxious-Chemistry-6

    Nah. She looks too Jewish, even though she isn't.

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    5 points Kalamac

    Stacey Farber, actually Jewish, and has already been in a Hallmark Hannukah movie. (Hannukah on the Rocks, not bad for a Hallmark holiday movie).

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    30 points grundee

    The woman and the restaurant owner have a fight because of a simple miscommunication, and a kind older man tells her a piece of history that helps her reconcile. The man is revealed to be Santa Claus right before the end credits.

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    27 points ImaginaryCoffeeTable

    We used to have a McGuire’s Chinese restaurant. It was run by a Chinese woman who married a McGuire. 

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    18 points _Rand_

    Reminds me of the heavily Scottish themed fish and chips place around here.

    Entirely staffed by asian and latino people.

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    23 points FloppieTheBanjoClown

    He has brown hair, blue eyes, and is strangely buff for a restaurant owner.

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    13 points Rebelgecko

    Also he has to own a Vineyard

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    11 points LessInThought

    It's a hippy farm-to-table style Chinese restaurant, he gets his muscles from working the farm.

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    8 points nokei

    gotta have that scene of the the father/mother in law telling him it's okay to move on.

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    7 points dreamerOfGains

    Dude did you just say your movie is about “Family”(TM)? Fast and furious lawyers want to know your location. 

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    2 points Galleta-de-Animalito

    Can we have the shy Asian female protagonist fall in love with the Jewish takeout delivery boy but her brother won’t him because doesn’t like his own Jewish culture

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    66 points jmccleveland1986

    Hallmark isn’t aware of Asians yet

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    36 points [deleted]

    *Hallmark is aware but is racist 

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    21 points RabbaJabba

    Hallmark is better than you’d expect, the hardcore conservatives like Candice Cameron jumped ship to Great American Family because of it.

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    5 points mostsocial

    Oh, someone said it.

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    11 points Worthyness

    They know of asians. They stick them into the background or the "quirky minority friend in an almost entirely white town in the middle of nowhere"

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    28 points Coffeepillow

    Brave of you to assume Hallmark would make a movie about a non-white interracial couple. (Jews don’t count as white, this is Hallmark after all)

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    22 points wolfgangspiper

    Amazingly they had a Hispanic woman with a Hispanic family as the lead in a 2025 movie. It was a big surprise.

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    18 points sliquonicko

    They also have a 'sister channel' kind of thing called Mahogany that casts black actors as leads.

    I used to work in a DVD store and have the weirdest collection of useless knowledge now...

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    9 points January_Blues7

    Super weird that they have a separate channel for black actors and that it’s called Mahogany like wtf 😬

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    7 points wolfgangspiper

    That sounds like a fetish category lol wtf

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    14 points Coffeepillow

    My mom has the Hallmark channel on 24/7, I have not seen this one yet. The closest I’ve seen is a vaguely whiteish Hawaiian from a few years ago and a black guy as a side character recently.

    Also not surprising that my mom said she “doesn’t care for the most recent Hallmark movies”

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    13 points wolfgangspiper

    I had to search but I found it. "Dashing Home for Christmas."

    Its pretty... 5/10.

    Her saying she doesn't care for the new ones right when they start adding shades darker than saltine is concerning. My condolences on the relation lol

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    2 points Fuck_Mark_Robinson

    A Christmas miracle!

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    13 points Fed_Deez_Nutz

    A Kosher Wanton Christmas

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    8 points ShadowExistShadily

    I think you mean wonton. Wanton is an entirely different genre of film.

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    12 points jedinatt

    He knows what he said.

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    2 points Fed_Deez_Nutz

    Yep

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    2 points Content-Sun2928

    Ching Chong Cha-Ching Christmas

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    2 points Fed_Deez_Nutz

    No.

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    9 points lewisherber

    Dreidel and Dumplings: A Love Story

    ETA: I just handed that banger movie title to an AI bot, didn’t I?

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    10 points MaxxDash

    A Very Kosher Christmas

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    6 points [deleted]

    Furiously taking notes about how to not be racist

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    6 points Hyperion1144

    Hallmark Channel's target demographic doesn't like Asians or Jews.

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    5 points [deleted]

    Hallmark casting an asian leading man in an asian male white female romance?

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    4 points Appropriate_M

    Hallmark just following along the trend, I don't think anyone in Hollywood or other Western studio has done this. I can only think of John Cho in "Selfie" (pulled mid-season...before the romance?).

    That said, completely plausible that the second gen restaurant owner's kid coming home from highpowered job/education having a meet-cute with lonely restaurant goer while helping the family business is very very Hallmark....

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    4 points avfc41

    There might have actually been a subplot like this in Christmas at the Golden Dragon.

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    5 points TricellCEO

    Nope, not white enough for them.

    Then again, I did hear they're doing a movie about a lesbian couple...baby steps, I guess.

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    2 points writesCommentsHigh

    Call Adam Sandler

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    2 points Quirky_Spend_9648

    was going to say - are we sure it's not on Hallmark already?

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    2 points Specialist-Pen-6441

    And they will film it in 52 days tops.

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  • 807 points Prezofcalendars

    If we want to go the comedy route, maybe Lisa Kudrow and Ke Huy Quan.

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    171 points No_Banana_581

    Ramen Girl w Brittany Murphy is such a cute, feel good romance. It’s very close to this concept

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    88 points node-toad

    Sounds ramentic

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    2 points Xx_Pr0phet_xX

    Boom. We got our title.

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    52 points bishopyorgensen

    This better than Sarah Silverman and Randall Park.

    I'm genuinely upset I'm not going to see this

    Easter egg opportunity: guest star a series of other actors who had their own Christmas rom coms coming and talking to Ke Guy Quan about their other movies

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    16 points analogkid01

    Oh I love John Krasinski.

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    11 points kuzinrob

    It's great that you don't see race

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    3 points Proper_Can8429

    Easter Egg (noodles)

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    3 points Commercial-Co

    In a few years you’ll be using AI to make this movie on netflix, bypassing the actors altogether. Dystopian! But tailored entertainment for you

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    3 points classicalkeys88

    Oh my God someone contact their agents

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  • 322 points BluebirdDense1485

    Be the change you want to see in the world.

    Also DM me when it's ready.

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    36 points mrKrabslaugh

    Only slightly related but Love Hard, I think it's on Netflix still, is a cheesy Christmas movie about a LA dating columnist who gets catfished by an east coast guy (she thinks she's dating an outdoorsy white guy but it's actually a crafty --as in artist/maker, no pun or prejudice intended lol-- Asian guy). But they hit it off anyway by the end of the movie

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    12 points Any--Name

    Didn't know Die Hard had a spin off

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    2 points uhhhhh_iforgotit

    I love this movie

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    2 points justcruisingboo

    The outdoorsy guy used for the catfish profile is actually part-Asian too, which was a welcome surprise plot-wise, removed that element from the ‘gotcha’ of the reveal

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  • 60 points No_Banana_581

    Watch Ramen Girl w Brittany Murphy. It’s very close to this concept and a really sweet romcom

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  • 275 points ChemistVegetable7504

    You just gave Lifetime or the Hallmark channel another dumb holiday movie idea.

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    92 points askmeifimacop

    Starring Lacey Chabert as the Chinese restaurant owner

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    38 points Mm2k

    She’s the restaurant.

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    22 points kushyo69

    No, Rob Schneider is.

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    4 points chux4w

    ...until one day he finds out being a Chinese restaurant isn't all it's prawn crackered up to be.

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    4 points orangecatmom

    Savage 😂

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    10 points OriginalChildBomb

    How could we forget Scarlett Johanssen?

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    17 points bisho

    Nope. Emma Stone. Remember that other movie Aloha she played an asian. Or Tilda Swinton as the Tibetan Ancient One in Doctor Strange

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    22 points Reckless_Secretions

    Can't be Emma Stone. The actors all need to be unknown. The only recognisable character always plays the role of an intermittent sage who pops up at the right time to give the exact right advice: that'll be someone like Ludacris, or Adele; they have to be musically gifted to perform the closing number lol

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    3 points Firewolf06

    the ancient one is canonically celtic, she just lives in nepal (and has for several hundred years)

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    8 points allllusernamestaken

    another dumb holiday movie idea

    at least it's somewhat original

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    5 points I_worship_odin

    If it was lifetime the woman would go to the restaurant to escape her husband's frequent beatings.

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  • 29 points bitterjay

    Soy Vey

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    8 points DanielaSte

    This comment is underappreciated!

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  • 183 points katielynne53725

    Imagine if they overlapped two stories, with the focus being on the Jewish/Chinese love interest, but a separate story line of typical Caucasian shenanigans going on in the background. Maybe a brief crossover where the Caucasians gotta go to the Chinese restaurant because they burned their dinner or whatever, and the Jewish/Chinese couple bond over talking shit about how dumb and predictable the Caucasian trope is.

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    139 points OriginalChildBomb

    It'd be funny if the white characters are clearly taking part in their own Hallmark Christmas film, but completely out of focus. Like, in their film, the Chinese and Jewish people are just there to check a box, but in our film, they're full-on the protagonists. And the white people should all be ridiculously beautiful and only vaguely look related hahaha

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    70 points Cheezeball25

    The white character shenanigans have to start normal, and get weirder and weirder as the movie goes on, without explanation. Just random 30 second clips of the white couple in their own Hallmark movie/hell that immediately cuts away before any exposition can happen

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    14 points Legos_under_foot

    Random clips of National Lampoon Christmas would be great chaos.

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    6 points highorderdetonation

    Frankie and Bethany (deep cut: Donald Faison and Alicia Witt) are stuck in a Christmas movie, don't realize it until about halfway through, and are frantically trying to escape because they're not the focal points and keep getting stuck in various things? I'm down.

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    43 points katielynne53725

    My vision, exactly.

    The Jewish/ Chinese couple notice and acknowledge how weird the whole thing is, because it's a small town and everyone knows that Jessica is engaged to a high power CEO back in New York, and Ryan has massive credit card debt from his failed reindeer farm venture, so he lives in his grandparents' lake house that LOOKS cozy, but is actually just not meant to be lived in year around..

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    10 points Nodan_Turtle

    Sounds a lot like Interior Chinatown. A regular cop show is basically going on in the background, but our protagonist is a side character, or even an extra.

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    5 points MidwestNormal

    THIS sounds great!

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    4 points Another-Mans-Rubarb

    There is an episode of house where it's about Wilson's perspective and patients. The house team are basically background characters who only show up and interrupt the flow of Wilson's work with comedically over the top shit that normally looks intense and smooth in a normal episode. I imagine it working out something like this.

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    3 points elmostrok

    The Hallmark Cinematic Universe.

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    2 points RideTheTrai1

    I love this so much.

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    10 points Lulu_42

    Sort of like the background of that one Community episode where Abed delivers a baby.

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    10 points GoneFishing4Chicks

    Jesus I haven't seen the word Caucasian since like 2004 and 24 where Jack Bauer would use it as a descriptor while speaking through a dumb phone between tense gunfights and torture scenes.

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    9 points katielynne53725

    Caucasian shenanigans are a very specific genre of white people shit, that almost exclusively exists in Hallmark movies.

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    5 points TheStupendusMan

    Tosh interviews one of their repeat actors on his podcast. It was an interesting listen.

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    2 points BurmeciaWillSurvive

    I take it you haven't had to fill out a job application in the last 21 years

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    4 points theCommTech

    You didn't use the word "Caucasian" enough.

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    2 points analogkid01

    Cast lookalikes from A Christmas Story.

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    2 points LostWoodsInTheField

    honestly would love to see a two movie setup where the movies have cross over moments between them.

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    2 points kremlingrasso

    You can say white, it's okay we won't be offended.

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    2 points chux4w

    "She's getting carried away. There's going to be a misunderstanding in about three days that makes her reconsider staying here for Christmas."
    "Oh, oh, and she'll fly back to New York for that big presentation, but then suddenly realise that this job isn't all she has in her life anymore and she'll drop it at the worst possible moment to fly right back."
    "Yeah, and her hardass boss will yell something like 'You'll never work in this town again! ...good for you.'"
    "White people, eh?"
    "Such stereotypes."

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  • 61 points PatchyWhiskers

    I think romcoms always have to be about generic attractive white people for some reason. It’s the rules.

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    31 points peteofaustralia

    May I present "Always Be My Maybe" for your consideration?

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    6 points Rex_Mundi

    Gods. I lost my mind when she introduced her new boyfriend.

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    2 points fenwayismyway

    keanuuuuuyy 🩶❤️❤️‍🔥

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    2 points fenwayismyway

    great movie

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    8 points Ok-Dig-8900

    “The Lovebirds” begs to differ

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    7 points Exes_And_Excess

    Tell that to my Netflix algorithm, all my wife watches is Korean Romcoms. And there is a seemingly endless supply of them.

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    6 points Earlier-Today

    That's true of pretty much every country with a movie industry - audiences like love stories in every part of the world.

    Korean ones were a cheap thing for Netflix to add to increase their catalog. It helps a lot that the Korean industry has some real quality to it - so your wife's likely getting stuff just as good as she'd get here (meaning about 1 in 20 is actually a really well done film and not just something pumped out to serve the demand.)

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    4 points Exes_And_Excess

    Yeah, they look super cheap with a fluorescent filter, and all have the same premise. I swear to god 99 percent of the main male characters are a CEO of some company. 

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    4 points BudgetMegaHeracross

    I thought Love Hard with Jimmy O. Yang was pretty deece.

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    6 points Geiseric222

    There is some black led rom coms spreading up but yes this the vast majority

    Another thing woke is taking from us

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    7 points Lawboithegreat

    Damn girl, you must be the average American voter

    Because these two vaguely political statements are deeply confusing when said by the same person

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    7 points Geiseric222

    That’s the joke

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  • 11 points PartsUnknown242

    Is it weird that I’ve thought of this scenario before? Only in the scenario in my head, the Jewish man works at his family’s deli and the Chinese girl works at her family’s restaurant

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    14 points kintsugistar

    And they exchange containers of their restaurant’s chicken soup in a test to see who makes the best in the city?

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    7 points GraveRoller

    Tbh that’s less weird and more believably sold to execs and producers. It’s the race reverse that makes the idea particularly out there imo

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  • 12 points PrydainFan

    i would unironically watch this as a casual catholic

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  • 12 points MuMbLe145

    Wonton Desire

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  • 9 points Solid-Hedgehog9623

    Who wants to help me write it?

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  • 9 points Big_Metal2470

    I have never wanted a movie made more in my life. I'm going to find a Chinese writer to write this with me, in the dearest hope that it'll become a bestseller and turned into a movie 

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  • 5 points Krimreaper1

    “Christmas time for the Jews”

    They can finally see King Kong without waiting in line They can eat in Chinatown and drink their sweet-ass wine They can crank Barbra Streisand on the streets they cruise Christmastime for the Jews

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  • 6 points Melicor

    I'd watch that movie. Sadly, there would be a large group of Americans throwing a fit because it reminds them that other cultures and religions exist.

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    2 points Jelousubmarine

    Tbh I don't think Hallmark would bother going for authenticity. It would be the most generic jewish lite + generic asian setup possible. The Chinese family would probably make Ramen or pho or something.

    Example: They recently made a movie that took place in Finland, because we have a......famous dog racing industry apparently? Of course the leads were still American, just both in Finland. The female lead was supposedly half Finnish, but with a Russian first name, because why the hell not. There is literally zero Finnish first names in the entire movie, and only one finnish family name. While it takes place in (a rural, quite homogenous area) in Lapland :D ...and half of it was filmed in Iceland, for vibes.

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  • 5 points ApplicationLost126

    That’s gold…write it up!

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    13 points kdjfsk

    "This Winter..."

    -jingle bells ringing-

    "'Tis the season..."

    -doorbell rings, and door opens-

    ...

    -record scratch-

    Rob: "Hi. Uhhh... Did you order Chinese?"

    -He looks up-

    "Boss?"

    Asa Akira: "Your shift is over now."

    -she grabs him by the shirt and pulls him inside.-

    Rob Schneider is....The Driver!.

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  • 4 points Queen_Cheetah

    I would watch the hell out of this!!!

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  • 4 points stupid_cat_face

    There was a movie made about a Jewish guy that steps up to defend Hanukkah from Santa's evil son.
    It's a good one. ... It's called the Hebrew Hammer

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    3 points kintsugistar

    I love that movie. Could be a double feature with this one?

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  • 3 points BrainIsSickToday

    I don't go for romance, but this intrigues me. Honestly I've always loved the factoid that a lot of Jewish families would go to Chinese restaurants on Christmas. There's something about that random confluence of cultural factors that just feels so goddamn American to me. Makes me happy.

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    3 points MagnetoWasRight24

    I grew up Muslim and that was our Christmas tradition too, Chinese food and movies.

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  • 5 points gunglejim

    Ken Jeong as the overbearing FIL and Barbara Streisand as the overbearing momzilla so planning the wedding is hard. Oh, I can’t wait for this movie

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  • 10 points Mission_Context_8079

    In NYC Jews go to a movie theater and Chinese restaurant because it’s the only time there aren’t crowds.

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    26 points throwaway285093

    it’s less about them not being crowded like normal, but more so they are/were the only places open on christmas

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    13 points LainieCat

    It's not just NYC, either.

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  • 16 points RebootJobs

    Bc then it’s Chanukah 🤣

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  • 3 points Ashamed_Feedback3843

    Broken Blossoms https://share.google/Arfj5ggsCx5rQ3jyj

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    9 points Scienscatologist

    It is based on Thomas Burke's short story "The Chink and the Child" from the 1916 collection Limehouse Nights.

    What the fuck.

    ETA: I just read the synopsis. Wild fucking ride, wish I hadn't read it and watched the actual movie instead. Wasn't the simplistic morality play you usually get from films of that era.

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  • 3 points runbeautifulrun

    Agree with the comment that said it’s specific and not odd, especially in NYC. But I think the Chinese woman and Jewish guy pairing is actually more common than Jewish woman and Chinese guy pairing.

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  • 3 points Adept_Perception5833

    Cause we'd actually love it as opposed to them redoing the white girl moves back to her old town and rekindle her old flame with famous actor ceo business tycoon

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  • 5 points Prezofcalendars

    I would create a drinking game for that movie in a second!!

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  • 2 points MrSteven20618

    This last season of Love is Blind kills that trope, RIP Patrick ☠️☠️

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  • 2 points TryingToStayOutOfIt

    Yes!!!!!!

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  • 2 points Negative-Narwhal-725

    ha, you should write it.

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  • 2 points ShutUpImAPrincess

    My best friend is both Chinese and Jewish, I really want this movie to get made please.

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  • 2 points jvillager916

    Starring Kat Dennings and Simu Liu

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  • 2 points Vasto_LordA

    I dont really understand the premise

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    12 points martyqscriblerus

    People who don't religiously celebrate Christmas often get Chinese food on Christmas because Chinese restaurants are some of the only restaurants that are open on Christmas Day. So the Jewish lady gets Chinese food from the same place every year and the restaurant owner starts falling in love with her.

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    3 points Vasto_LordA

    Ah

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  • 2 points SAINTnumberFIVE

    Adam Sandler has entered the building.

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    3 points HorizontalBob

    Who's the Chinese lady in this movie?

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    2 points KimberlyWexlersFoot

    Awkwafina

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  • 2 points bigger_breakfast

    Restaurant owner played by Simu Liu .... JK it'll be played by some average white dude

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  • 2 points LT-bythepalmtree

    “The Bagel and the Bao’s fortune.”

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  • 2 points Poon-Conqueror

    This isn't oddly specific, but relatable to every Jewish family in the entire US (the Chinese food part, not the love story).

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  • 2 points Nalot_1

    I think you just did... run with it and make it your own!

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  • 2 points BeKindBabies

    Those groups might be existing outside the target demo for a Christmas movie.

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  • 2 points discowithmyself

    Son of a bitch I’m in

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  • 2 points CDR57

    That or the movie theater ticket person that always waits for them for Christmas

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  • 2 points dadneverleft

    They could go see a romantic movie together afterwards!!

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  • 2 points MySaltySatisfaction

    Would be a Hallmark movie I might actually watch.

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  • 2 points bz_leapair

    Mrs Leapair: "Because that's not a Christmas movie, it's a Hanukkah movie."

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  • 2 points ComicsEtAl

    Sounds like a lovely premise.

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  • 2 points HarlanMiller

    I may stand alone here, but I would watch this.

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  • 2 points rassler35

    Because they're not white and Christian like the good lord intended.

    /s

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    2 points GraveRoller

    While Hallmark has does a Jewish themed romance movie, it’s still true enough that you don’t need to be sarcastic. Solid, non-jokey interracial pairings in media that involve a white woman are already pretty rare, but an Asian guy? None come to mind except Henry Golding with the dragon lady from GoT, and that’s ignoring the in-house politics of him being half-white

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    3 points Shergak

    Love Hard has an Asian male lead with a White female lead.

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    2 points GraveRoller

    I knew there was another one. But I couldn’t remember any of their dang names

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    2 points wildcat-

    This one is ironically a good watch too. There are a whole family of non-hallmark Xmas romcoms that tend to be significantly better than their Hallmark counterparts. See also, for example, Christmas with the Cambells staring Justin Long, Holidate with Emma Roberts, and (though lesser, but still good) Christmas with a View.

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    2 points rassler35

    As I read through your comment I thought, there was that one with the chick from GoT... I think that dude was Asian. But then you got me.

    As a straight white male, I think there are so many hot Asian dudes that would kill as rom com leads.

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  • 2 points Kaffe-Mumriken

    Oh you mean like Dinner For One?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One

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  • 2 points Ill_Cut_8529

    Jewish and Chinese don't do Christmas.

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    3 points thegabster2000

    But it is Christmas time, and they are lonely...

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