Christmas in Connecticut is a 1992 American Christmas romantic comedy television film directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger (his first and only film directing credit) and starring Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson, and Tony Curtis. It is a remake of the 1945 film of the same name. The film premiered on TNT on April 13, 1992.
Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and the author of several cookbooks. Alexander, her manager, sees a heroic forest ranger named Jefferson on the television news, saying he has lost his cabin in a fire and wishes he could get a home-cooked Christmas dinner.
Alexander arranges for Elizabeth to do a special live show on Christmas, where she will cook a Christmas dinner for Jefferson. In reality, Elizabeth cannot cook and trying to keep Jefferson and the viewing public from finding out may be a little difficult, especially on a live show.
John Ferguson of Radio Times awarded the film two stars out of five, describing it as a lacklustre remake that failed to capture the charm of the original 1945 film.
Empire reviewed the film on release, calling it âÂÂcompetently madeâ but only âÂÂvaguely amusingâÂÂ, adding that it âÂÂfeatures enough fake snow to cover Alaska.âÂÂ
Writing for Film Freak Central, Bill Chambers was strongly critical, calling the film âÂÂthe sort of unqualified failure that finds something like thirty dozen ways to redefine âÂÂfatuousâÂÂ,â and describing it as an unsuccessful remake of the 1945 Barbara Stanwyck film.