Christmas is over, but Winter is not!

Snow Queen is an old story. If you have read any of the versions, then you would know the general story line. But, like most versions of fairy tales, each one has something new to offer in their story.

This story takes place somewhere in the mountains of Europe, many years ago.

Gerda’s father (Robert Wisden) owns the White Bear Hotel, and she helps out around the place. When you start the movie, Gerda (Chelsea Hobbs) is about nine or ten years old. She and her parents are having fun enjoying the winter season and then her mother dies. The problem is that her mother was the heart and soul of her father. After her mother dies, her father retreats into himself. He still keeps up the hotel, but there is no more fun. Everything is about work and he doesn’t spend time with Gerda like he used to. There is one bright spot left to her, and that is the hotel’s cook, who is like a second mother to her.

About ten years later, a young man named Kai (Jeremy Guilbaut) is hired as the bell boy and errand boy; doing what tasks are needed. He moved to town from the other side of the mountain in order to send money home to his family. Kai likes Gerda and makes it his mission to make her smile and laugh. He wants to see her enjoy life again and maybe like him back.

One night while Kai is outside, something falls into his eye (which we learn later is a piece of a magic mirror) and then his personality starts to change. Then a beautiful woman comes to stay at the hotel. We later learn she is Winter, or the Snow Queen (Bridget Fonda). She lures Kai away and takes him to her kingdom, but everyone thinks that Kai has died in an accident.

Gerda, who is convinced that Kai is still alive, follows after him. She finds that she has to pass through the lands of the seasons to reach to Queen’s own land of winter. For each season is one of four sisters. Every season/sister knows of Gerda’s quest to bring back Kai and each one tries to protect Gerda in their own way. But Gerda is determined to get to the land of Winter and save Kai. Unbeknownst to her, the Queen has given a task to Kai, and if Gerda doesn’t get there before he finishes it, she will lose him forever.

The Snow Queen’s desire is to take over all of the seasons. Which would mean that Earth would forever remain in Winter’s cold shadow. Only one thing can stop the Snow Queen and it’s up to Gerda to figure out what that is.

The movie is not a typical two hours, but closer to three. It is also family friendly, but would probably be better for kids seven and older. In typical Hallmark style, this movie doesn’t have anything ‘adult’ or vulgar in it. And the story has a lesson to learn. If you want to know what that lesson is, then you’ll just have to watch it and find out!