The holiday rom-com "Falling for Christmas" checks all the familiar, expected holiday movie boxes — Christmas is good, greed is bad, a character who looks a lot like Santa Claus turns out to be Santa Claus — with one notable difference from dozens of interchangeable Hallmark Channel clones it mimics: it stars Lindsay Lohan in the lead role.
Yes, Lindsay Lohan, teenage movie star turned 20-something tabloid fixture turned Hollywood disappearing act. "Falling for Christmas" is her first feature film lead role in nearly a decade, and she shows a slight glimmer of the pluck she once brought to the screen in films such as "Freaky Friday" and "Mean Girls." Don't call it a comeback, call it baby steps toward the possibility of one.
Lohan stars as Sierra Belmont, privileged daughter of a hotel magnate, who is dating and soon to be engaged to an empty-headed social media influencer, Tad (George Young). A mountaintop proposal goes wrong and sends Sierra speeding straight into a tree, bumping her head and contracting amnesia, and later waking up in a cozy mom-and-pop resort run by Jake Russell ("Glee's" Chord Overstreet).
