

Of course, Miss Fletcher trips and falls, resulting in her getting caked in some good old-fashioned countryside mud. You read that right, a fully grown woman likely in her 40s had no idea what pigs looked like. And we need to emphasize how truly evil this woman is: up until her trip to the West Midlands farm, Miss Fletcher didn’t even know what sheep or pigs looked like. To make matters worse, after the developers back out of the deal, Matt’s evil childless soulless boss arrives at Gobbleton. However, when the big mean developers from London arrive to sell the farm, Beano gets the whole village to protest, throw rotten eggs at the two businessmen and even… gasp!… throw some mud at them. No amount of baby goats, forced Christmas spirit, or even the sad faces on his five little children would convince him otherwise. Some villagers don’t even have names and they’re simply referred to by Disney nicknames like Grumpy, Sneezy, and Happy, further hammering in how quirky this oasis of West Midlands happiness truly is.Ĭhristmas on Mistletoe Farm ending explained – who is the town crier?ĭespite spending most of the film slowly falling in love with the charms of village life, Matt still decides to sell Mistletoe Farm to a group of evil developers offering him an undisclosed large sum of money.

Among the quirky villagers is veterinarian turned love interest, Miss Ashley (Drysdale), useless school teacher, Miss Nerris (Sydney Isitt-Ager), B arry the Baker (who moonlights as the plumber and is played by David O’Leary), and the Father Christmas look-a-like town crier (played by Steven Wickham). Of course, all five children fall in love with the small village of Cobbleton after meeting farmhand Beano (Paige), who for some reason lives in the barn and the rest of the tight-knit annoying jolly community. His wife had previously passed away and left the poor man forced to balance raising five small children while appeasing his ruthless cartoon villain of a boss, Miss Fletcher (Jensen), whose motto is “In business, children don’t count.”Īs Matt needs to get a very important business pitch done by Christmas Eve, he reckons some fresh countryside air and being surrounded by the rolling hills is all he needs to get those creative juices going.

“Matt Cunningham (Garnham) is an overwhelmed single dad of five who one day learns he’s now the proud owner of the middle-of-nowhere West Midlands village Mistletoe Farm.
