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6.9/10
Christmas at the Catnip Café
2025
90 minutes
Director
Lucie Guest
Cast
Erin Cahill
Paul Campbell
Meganne Young
Description
The story follows Olivia Pierce, a marketing executive from Oakland, California who unexpectedly inherits half of a cat café in upstate New York from her late great-aunt. Planning to sell the café to fund a condo down payment, she meets Dr. Ben Kane — the veterinarian who owns the other half — and learns the café is much more than a business: it’s a community rescue hub for homeless cats. As the holidays approach, the two agree to work together to plan fundraising events for the café. Over three weeks of holiday preparations, feline-filled chaos, and community gatherings, Olivia comes to appreciate the café’s mission — and discovers a surprising spark with Ben, forcing her to reconsider her city life plans in favor of something more meaningful.
Professions
Marketing Executive
Veterinarian
Café Owner
Settings & Cities
A small upstate‑New York town — specifically the cat café in “upstate New York.”
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
New York
Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
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Review
Christmas at the Catnip Café
Subtitle: Love, Lattes, and an Excess of Fluffy Felines
If you’ve ever watched Hallmark holiday movies and thought, “This is nice, but where are the cats?”, then Christmas at the Catnip Café answers your prayers — and then some. The film follows Olivia, a marketing executive who inherits half a cat café in upstate New York, and Ben, the resident veterinarian who owns the other half. Between decorating the café, planning holiday fundraisers, and rescuing every stray cat in a ten-mile radius, these two discover that love can flourish even among furballs and espresso machines.
Hallmark movies are known for improbably perfect chemistry, and Hallmark holiday movies are experts at pairing strangers in small towns during Christmas chaos. Here, that formula meets a literal cat-tastrophe of holiday hijinks: kitties climbing the tree, knocking over cocoa mugs, and somehow making every scene 100% cuter than it has any right to be.
By the end, you’re rooting for the café, the lovebirds, and every cat who’s somehow gotten its own personality arc. It’s heartwarming, slightly chaotic, and makes you want to adopt a cat — or five — immediately. Truly, Hallmark movies have never been so fluffy.