The George’s are a modern successful family who seems to have it all, until they don’t, when David George (Kevin Sizemore) loses his job just before Christmas.
When Julie (Claudia
Esposito) finds out they decide not to tell children Nick, Natalie and Nina
(Barrett Carnahan, Emily Capehart and Siomha Kenney) and enjoy Christmas
regardless as everything had already been purchased and David is certain he
will find another job in the New Year.
Life doesn’t always
work out how you hope it will and the new job never materialises and as the
year passes the bills just keep rolling in, eating away at their savings and
the kids college funds, until finally the bank repossess the house and they end
up living in a motel.
But things go from bad
to worse when Julie is forced to get provisions from the food bank and then are
evicted from the motel as they can’t pay the bill.
After taking refuge in
the church Henry Banks (Terry Kiser) who was on the receiving end of a random
act of kindness by David the previous Christmas, offers them a place to live
and work on his Christmas tree farm.
But even then they
still have a fight on their hands to save the farm from
Senator John Cutter
(Michael Guy Allen) who was to develop the land into warehousing in order to
get himself re-elected.
This is a warm-hearted
Christmas tale to remind us that in the holiday season, the best gifts in life
are the simple ones, and that miracles do happen, if you believe.
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