At one point, Sophie mentions that she has bats in her bedroom and nobody does what they normally do in Scotland: freeze and swear among themselves never to mention it again, in case your house is immediately confiscated as a bat sanctuary. They even have wifi and enjoy a Chinese takeaway, so they are way ahead of us. Myles is theoretically impoverished, but he has never had to sell any of the paintings or antique furniture and manages to dig out about 100 grand’s worth of Christmas decorations, so nothing is ever too bad. Obviously, they have never had a conversation with Historic Environment Scotland about changing one tiny windowsill in a protected building. Sophie mentions she has bats in her bedroom and nobody does what they normally do in Scotland: never mention it again, in case their house is confiscated as a bat sanctuaryĪt one point, Tom, Myles’s manservant/lover/brother (it is never made clear in the script), suggests that if he doesn’t sell Sophie the castle (which clearly isn’t a castle, castle fans, but a manor house, although this is not a film you want to get into authenticity arguments with), it will be pulled down and replaced by “condos”. I believe it is not a spoiler to tell you that she does not leave, in fact, and neither does he.Īpart from that, there is no jeopardy in this film at all: it is absolutely perfect for low-maintenance Christmas viewing. Myles cooks up a plan to take Sophie’s deposit and make her live with him for three months, making her life so miserable that she will leave – without her large deposit, which I think is a criminal offence. Sophie visits the estate where her grandfather worked as a groundskeeper and decides, on an insanely expensive whim, to buy it. Photograph: Gordon Terris/Herald and Times Group Jenny Colgan at home on the south coast of Fife. As Myles, the slightly-fuzzy-round-the-edges duke, Cary Elwes has a not entirely disastrous stab at west Highlander, so it is an enjoyable mix.
Osho restaurant driver#
Accent-wise, the taxi driver is from Fife, while Andi Osho appears to be channelling a likably posh Glaswegian as Maisie, the kindly innkeeper, who desperately wants a New York novelist to do her hair for … reasons. Regardless, Sophie heads to Scotland, to the village of Dunbar, purportedly in Aberdeenshire, which may come as some surprise to the residents of the extremely lovely large town of Dunbar in East Lothian – seriously guys, just change, like, one letter.
I only became a novelist because of Kathleen Turner’s amazing Manhattan life in Romancing the Stone, before she goes into that stupid jungle. Stop right there, I always think about these films. People care so much about her books that they have protests when she kills off a beloved character. In A Castle for Christmas, Shields plays Sophie Brown, a highly successful writer in New York with the most fabulous career and apartment.
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