It’s the time of year for Hallmark holiday movies, and we’ve just had Single on the 25th. At its heart, there is a good message about being happy on your own, but that wouldn’t a good Hallmark Christmas romance movie make. So, we get a story about how it’s also perfectly okay to want to be with the right person.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS from Single on the 25th
At first, Nell isn’t happy with being alone. She doesn’t even know how to do it, but when she locks herself out of her apartment, she ends up turning to her neighbor Cooper for a way to call her friend to get her back in. That leads to him suggesting that she spend the Christmas season home alone, doing all the things that she would love to do.
Nell and Cooper enjoy their time together in Single on the 25th
As the premise told us, Cooper spends the season helping Nell be happy as a single woman. You see, he’s been a single man for as long as he can remember, and he likes it that way. He doesn’t like his family constantly asking why he’s single, but he does like being alone.
That is until Nell comes into his life. As the two spend time doing all the fun Christmasy things and plan Cooper’s work Christmas party, they realize that they like each other. And as more than friends. It’s telling that Cooper finds a way to have Nell in his life despite encouraging her to do all the Christmasy things on her own.
It’s at the Christmas party that things take a turn. Cooper’s colleague blurts out to his date that Cooper is just being a do-gooder by helping Nell, as he feels sorry for her.
Cooper and Nell realize it’s okay to want to be with someone
As Nell hears this, she storms out of the party, and it looks like it is the end of their friendship. However, Cooper is angry, wondering why his colleague would say such things to Nell. It turns out that the colleague has been trying too hard to fit in, and with a short heart-to-heart, the two make up.
On Christmas Eve, Cooper heads hope for his family dinner, where he opens up to his mom that he made a mistake. After all this time of being happy alone, he no longer is, because he wants Nell. However, he thinks he screwed up. It’s not until he finds the letter Nell wrote to him just before the party that he realizes that maybe he hasn’t screwed up.
Meanwhile, Nell is at a singles’ support group, where she opens up about how it’s okay to want to be loved by someone else while loving yourself. It’s okay to want to be in a relationship if it’s for the right reasons, but it’s also okay to be happy with yourself. That’s the best way at looking at life.
So, she heads to the dinner that she planned for Christmas Eve, which is where Cooper is waiting for her — knowing that she had planned this. He brings her a gift, which isn’t the ring that he saw her looking at. He panicked because the ring had been sold, but Nell shares that she bought herself the $2,000 ring. That ring was not worth $2,000, by the way!
In the end, he decided to put together a box with a fortune cookie fortune. It’s the one that he got the night that all this started, hinting at an adventure awaiting. That’s sure enough what they’ve had throughout Single on the 25th, and now they get to continue that adventure together.
Single on the 25th is available to stream on Hallmark+.
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