My Secret Santa
Published December 7, 2025
Film info
- Title My Secret Santa
- Director Mike Rohl
- Year 2025
- Run time 1hr 33m
- Genres Romance, Comedy
- Tagline Single mom. Double life.
A single mom needs a job. A ski resort needs a Santa. Disguised as a St. Nick lookalike, can Taylor fool a charming hotel heir into ho-ho-hiring her?
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:20 | “Look at Santa. He is clearly depressed.” Hardly surprising, busy time of year. |
| 3:37 | There’s such a thing as snowboarding school?? |
| 6:32 | Ryan Eggold is adorable. |
| 15:11 | Oh god, it’s gone full Mrs Doubtfire. |
| 20:53 | There are surely HR issues that are going to rumble this deceit. |
| 33:30 | You’d think she’d do a better job at being Santa given that it’s the only thing keeping her kid in snowboards. |
| 38:26 | Surely she would recognise her mum. |
| 50:50 | “Why do I feel guilty then, like I ought to be doing something productive?” “We are, we’re having fun.” |
| 1:02:44 | Yay, how’s she going to be in two places at once? |
| 1:12:36 | “Santa Claus, why do you sound like my mother?” |
| 1:18:55 | Suddenly he can make a speech? |
| 1:22:30 | “Maybe we can just start with spending Christmas together.” That’s where they’re STARTING? |
Thoughts
This is such an implausable and strange movie - and that’s even by Christmas nonsense rom-com standards. I feel like in this day and age there’s no reason a woman couldn’t be considered for a santa job. If she went in and did the impression she can clearly do, and they were so desperate to hire, why wouldn’t she get the job? And the HR for this hotel is clearly lacking if they didn’t do any background checks on this very strange individual. How did she get the discount if she was signed up under a different name? It makes no sense!
Ryan Eggold is adorable in it though, particularly when he’s wrestling with why he has feelings for Santa… before he finds out what’s really going on. It’s all very weird.
Rating: 2 / 5
