With new hits like Hot Frosty and The Merry Gentlemen, Netflix is really leaning into feel-good Christmas movies this season, and audiences can’t get enough. Its latest rom-com, Our Little Secret, highlights Lindsay Lohan’s career resurgence as the sweet holiday flick dominates the streaming service’s top ten chart quickly after its release.
The film follows the ironic reunion between ex-lovers Avery (Lindsay Lohan) and Logan (Ian Harding) after discovering their respective partners are siblings while staying at their parents’ house for Christmas. Pretending they don’t know each other in an effort to not make things awkward for everyone, the old flames take viewers on a journey into their intimate history through increasingly precarious lies and antics to keep their secret. As relationship problems emerge and old feelings resurface, the classic question of romance-movies-past is asked: who does Avery end up with?
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Our Little Secret
Release Date November 27, 2024
Cast Lindsay Lohan , Kristin Chenoweth , Ian Harding , Jon Rudnitsky , Chris Parnell , Tim Meadows , Dan Bucatinsky , Henry Czerny , Katie Baker , Ash Santos , Jake Brennan , Brian Unger
Runtime 99 Minutes
What Is ‘Our Little Secret’ About?
Avery and Logan were inseparable as kids. As they grew up, their feelings for each other grew too, and they dated all throughout their younger years. However, after Avery tragically loses her mother and takes a life-changing job offer in London, their seemingly perfect relationship falls apart. Unable to cope with Avery’s career move, Logan drunkenly proposes to her at a surprise going away party so she has a reason to stay. Avery declines, Logan lashes out, and the two break-up.
After 10 years of leading disconnected lives, the ghost of their past brings them back together (sort of). The two are both in different relationships: Avery is dating Cameron, played by Set It Up actor Jon Rudnitsky, and Logan is with Cassie, played by Katie Baker from The Sex Lives of College Girls. So, what’s the catch? Cameron and Cassie just happen to be brother and sister — a revelation only discovered when the couples meet for the first time at the siblings’ family Christmas.
In a panic, Avery tells Logan it’s a pleasure to meet him, and the two begin a days-long escapade to keep their partners (and their whole family) in the dark about their dating history — but not without a price. They work out a deal: Avery helps Logan with his first important business proposal, and Logan helps Avery win the favor of Cameron’s judgmental mother, Erica, portrayed by the Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth. Can the star-crossed lovers keep their secret and keep the peace? Or will their sudden reconnection lead them back to one another for good?
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Unraveling Relationships
Like most rom-coms about a past love’s return, the separate relationships Avery and Logan are in begin to crack. First, Cassie is significantly younger than Logan. Still in school, inexperienced in adult relationships, and more interested in having fun, their age-gap against Logan’s history and compatibility with Avery reveals a longing for something more mature in his love life. Simultaneously, he’s stuck in an unfulfilling role in his career. If he isn’t spending time scheming with Avery, he’s working on his business proposal — one in competition with his boss. Besides kisses and conversations here and there, Logan clearly seems disinterested in his superficial relationship with Cassie and more focused on growing up in all areas of his life.
Similarly, Avery and Cameron, though much more serious about each other, begin to drift apart. With a concerning momma’s-boy dynamic with Erica, staying out too late drinking with his buddies, and a reconnection of his own with his childhood sweetheart Sophie (Ash Santos), the two pull away from each other. However, when Logan tries to talk to Avery about Cameron’s behavior, she dismisses him and brushes it all under the rug. Although Logan seems eager to have Avery in his life again, she is conflicted about going backwards. After her mother’s death, she moved across the world to run away from the place that reminded her of her grief. Now that she’s back, and her dad is selling her childhood home, Avery questions what she really wants going forward — in life and in love.
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Who Does Avery Choose in the End?
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When Logan’s mother and grandmother make a surprise visit at Christmas, Avery and Logan are forced to come clean about everything. As a result, the two couples break things off (everyone had secrets of their own), and Avery heads home alone.
However, the old flames’ embers didn’t go out (even in the December cold). Avery made sure that Logan’s full business proposal was turned in, even going as far as knocking on Erica’s door each day until she handed it over to the family friend Stan (Tim Meadows) who was making the decision. Hearing about her persistence after closing the deal, Logan knew she still loved him. So, in the end, Avery chooses the place and people that feel right at home (literally, she buys her childhood home from her dad), and begins a new-old life with Logan by her side. No longer running away from the past, Avery can now have the future she always wanted. Stream on Netflix.
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