Newspaper reporter Maddie Contino (Jen Lilley) embarks on a US Navy Tiger Cruise also known as the USS Christmas, during the festive season, where she meets handsome naval officer Lt. Billy Jenkins (Trevor Donovan).
Being a serious career officer, he is less than thrilled to be
assigned to assist her in researching a story, but his attitude softens after
stumbling on a romantic mystery in the ship's archive regarding an old love
story and while doing so begin a love story of their own.
Gwen (Lindy Booth) is an auctioneer employed to downsize a magnificent estate in the run up to Christmas for the dour reclusive owner Alan Hawthorne (Vlasta Vrana).
The success of the clearance is vitally important as her commission
would set her up to purchase the auction house.
The fly in the ointment however is the head of the cleaning crew Reed
(Justin Bruening) who she had worked with on a previous occasion so there is
some friction between them but working on the new project offers them a second
opportunity to slowly resolve their issues.
So as the two uncover the house's treasures, they help an aging father to resolve his relationship with his estranged daughter, an unlikely couple find love and lead themselves to find their true feelings and move on to a loving future together.
In the run up to Christmas, TV presenter Kate Harper (Lori Loughlin) accidentally admits, live on air that she doesn’t like Christmas.
Due to the backlash from viewers and
sponsors alike, she and producer and ex-college boyfriend Jack Brewster (Colin
Ferguson) are sent to a small town in North Dakota to film a Christmas special
in order to discover her Christmas spirit and repair Kates image,
As she embraces the Christmas festivities
the Christmas spirit begins to change her life and along the way, she
reconciles with her estranged father Michael (Michael St. John Smith), learns
to enjoy Christmas again and falls in love with her former beau.
Amy Michaels (Elisabeth Harnois) had
planned a perfect Christmas in Chicago with her boyfriend, but those plans are ruined
when he unexpectedly breaks up with her after telling her he has another
girlfriend.
Not wanting to spend Christmas alone she
decides to visit her half-brother Daniel (Samuel Hunt) who is in Vienna trying
to track down relatives on his dad's side of the family.
Looking for new experiences she decides to
take a ballroom dancing lesson and is paired with a very handsome European man
named Lukas (Christian Oliver).
To use terpsichorean parlance, they get off
on the wrong foot, but after initially clashing, their partnership becomes more
harmonious and they end up spending the day together and an attraction forms
between them but will this new found magnetism lead to love or another broken
heart.
On the day New York stockbroker Sam Wallace (Vanessa Lengies) starts a new job she discovers that the company have been taken over and her boyfriend Will (René Escobar Jr) is her new boss.
So, she does the only
thing she can do, she quits both of them and returns home to upstate New York
to spend Christmas with her mother Tammy (Maria Ricossa) and reconnects with
her high school sweetheart Noah Fitzpatrick (Corey Sevier) who she left behind
in order to pursue her business career.
After some initial
frostiness on his part he eventually thaws and they are able to rekindle their
former love.
Miranda (Alicia Dea Josipovic) and Paul (Travis Nelson) both meet at a Secret Santa party where they have both disguised their identities and they click instantly and are clearly on the same wavelength.
They agree to keep their disguises on and their anonymity until after
the party, but they are separated before they can exchange numbers and have no
way of finding each other.
Miranda is a talented tech guru who has developed an app to help
Christmas shoppers select the perfect gift for their recipients, but is upset
to find that her app has been sold to another company which in turn merges with
a rival and she has to work jointly with one of the enemy on the holiday
gift-giving app.
Her rival turns out to be her mystery man Paul from the Secret Santa
but neither of them know so sparks fly between them but as they work together,
they develop unexpected feelings for one another even before they discover
their previous interactions.
Two years have passed since Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) and her brother Teddy (Judah Lewis) helped Santa save Christmas.
However, she is now a cynical 13-year-old who is unhappily
spending Christmas with her family in Cancún, Mexico, with her mom
Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her brother, her mom's new boyfriend Bob
Booker (Tyrese Gibson), and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno), when she would rather
be back home, where there is snow and it feels more like a real Christmas.
So, Kate decides to run away and uses her mom’s credit card to book an
early flight back home to Boston.
When she is sneaking out of the Hotel and is unaware, she is being
followed by Jack, she is tricked by an evil Christmas Elf
Belsnickel (Julian Dennison), posing as a driver, to get onto a shuttle,
which Jack sneaks on to as well.
But they aren’t going to the airport, instead they are transported to
the North Pole where they are rescued by Santa Claus (Kurt
Russell) who takes them back to his house where Mrs. Claus (Goldie
Hawn) is waiting.
Of course, Belsnickel transported the kids in order to use them as
bait to attract Santa so he could sneak into the Village.
Once inside he put his plan to take over Christmas for his own evil
ends into action.
So not for the first time Kate has to help Santa save Christmas, this
time he has Jack and Mrs Claus to help.
In Greenwich Village, jewellery designer Holly Hayes (Ashley Greene) works in the Vintage Clothing Shop run by her best friend Megan Snyder (Britt Irvin) and designs jewellery in her spare time.
One day Holly finds a valuable charm bracelet in the pocket of a
donated coat, and she naturally reaches the conclusion that the bracelet, with
many bespoke Christmas themed charms, was donated in error.
Holly makes it her mission to discover the owner and return the
bracelet before Christmas.
Reluctantly she teams up with a magazine reporter Greg Matthews
(Brendan Penny), who wants to assist her as he wants to write about her his
"Christmas Hero" story.
The combination of her Jewellery expertise, keen instincts and his
investigative reporter experience soon unearth the bracelets origins and the
love story it represents.
But by the time they track down the owner they have written a love
story of their own.
Natalie Rogers (Anni Krueger) learns that her cousin Olivia (Nia Vardalos) has to cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant because bad weather has her grounded in Rome.
Natalie’s heart goes out to Olivia and all of the guests who were
planning on attending so, despite having no experience in such things she
decides she will open it for her.
Luckily, an attractive if pessimistic chef named Stefano Grimaldi
(Gilles Marini) is on hand.
Although he thinks getting ready to open with only three days until
Christmas is impossible, but her positivity overrules his pessimism and with
the help of two young students BeeBee Jordan and Tyler (Emma Myers and Andrew
Brodeur) they overcome all the obstacles.
And of course, there is love on the menu.
Allie (Rebecca Dalton) is an unemployed art teacher who reluctantly accepts a job with the Santa Squad.
The Squad are employed for a myriad of Christmas tasks and projects
and Allie is sent to the home of a wealthy widower Gordon Church (Aaron
Ashmore) and his two adorable daughters, Rose and Iris (Hattie Kragten and
Molly Lewis) to help get the house ready for Christmas.
But she decides that while she is doing that, she can help lift the
spirits of a broken family so that they can rediscover the magic of Christmas.
What she didn’t expect however was that the magic of Christmas would
provide her with true love.
Megan (Michelle Argyris) is a godsend during the holidays as she uses the weeks leading up to every Christmas to help around with any Christmas related tasks and saves the day for those who find the season taxing.
Then due to a misunderstanding when she visits a store called Trinkets
and Toys she is mistaken for some kind of business guru by an investor.
As a result, the two owners Kurt and Mike (Travis Nelson and Marcello
Di Fruscia) hire her to create a fantastic Christmas store display and increase
footfall.
The investor David is impressed and insistent that she continue but
she and Kurt continually clash but with each successive day she wears him down and
works her way into his heart and he into hers.
Music store owner Meg Reilly (Alicia Witt) loves the Christmas Tree Lane shopping district so when all the stores get eviction notices she spearheads the community efforts to save them from demolition.
Around the same time, she makes the acquaintance of Nate Williams
(Andrew W. Walker) and there is an instant attraction and they meet numerous
times after and clearly enjoy each other’s company especially when he gets
involved with the campaign to save Christmas Tree Lane.
However, as they find themselves falling for each other, they are both
shocked to find out he is actually working for the developer Meg is fighting.
But he becomes instrumental in saving the shopping district from
development and her heart is won.
The School Board has decided her Middle school will be closing in the New Year so Principal Addison Tate (Cindy Sampson) wants the last Christmas to be really special for her kids because it’s going to be the last.
So, she invites former alumni and old
flame, Hollywood star Dylan Davidson (Steve Byers) to direct the school play in
an effort to save the school.
Initially his Manager Garth Turnbull
(Arnold Pinnock) ignores her calls but as he has no other work in the pipeline
Dylan agrees and it looks like its mutually beneficial.
However, it is a mutual attraction which dominates their run up to Christmas.
Hannah Pressman (Jen Lilley) works at the family's publishing company in Angel Falls, which they want to expand but are unsure which direction they should take.
But then Ryan MacDonald (Carlo Marks)
arrives in town to sort out his parent’s estate.
He is an old friend, but also a rival from
their school days and her parents engages him as a marketing consultant to help
with their expansion which upsets Hannah.
But it’s a new tenant in Ryan's parents’
house, famous author Tina Finnegan (Rachael Crawford) and Guardian Angel Anthony
(Eric Close) who are instrumental in bringing Hannah and Ryan together in a
perfect Angel Falls romance.
Mandy Leeds (Jonna Walsh) is steadily climbing the corporate ladder in the hotel industry and living in sunny Miami, however when she is on her way home to spend Christmas with her Gram (Jayne Eastwood) she bumps into her old high school rival Lucas Menzino (Jesse Hutch).
She doesn't get back to her small hometown very often, but her Grams
invite wasn’t the only reason for her return.
The main purpose in town was to acquire, for her company, the
Chesterwood, a quaint local Inn which is up for sale.
Unfortunately, she finds out that her archival Lucas has got his eye
on the Inn as well.
So, the contest is on for them to outbid each other but all the while
they are keeping their respective eyes on the prize, they are getting closer
and closer and by the end they both realise what the real prize is.
Carmen Tirado (Camila Banus) is a wonderful pastry chef who dreams of opening her own pastry shop.
But dreams are all they are until her sister Pilar (Melissa Marty) enters
her into a competition to cook at a Grand Christmas Event.
Because she has had no formal training and she is up against
professionally qualified Chefs, she is terrified.
Despite her nerves and self-doubt she wins a place in the kitchen and
is paired with Jax (Mark Hapka) and have to jointly plan for the function and
have to learn from one another, but there is some initial friction between
them, but they eventually come together to create a truly inspired menu in time
for Christmas and have found their way into each other’s hearts along the way.
San Francisco travel and lifestyle blogger, Aubrey Lang (Natalie Hall) visits the Danish-settled Californian village of Solvang for her next holiday vlog piece.
Solvang was chosen after it was voted most Christmassy Town in the USA
and her first impression was that it was a festive tourist trap.
Then she meets Sawyer Larsen (Jon Prescott) Chocolate Shop owner and
local community coordinator who is assigned to show her around the small town.
At first the unlikely pairing are at odds but amidst the romantic
little Danish village backdrop and twinkling lights they soon start to fall for
each other and she realises Christmas magic is for real and so is the love they
are feeling.
After celebrated chef Josie Byrde (Kim Shaw) is surprised at her restaurant by her nemesis, food critic, Tanner Rhodes (Clayton James) and his editor Pepper Fine (Katrina Norman) she heads home for the holidays.
Her mother Shannon (Cynthia Gibb) is opening a bistro at her
bed-and-breakfast and Josie is creating a special Holiday dessert menu for her.
She is enjoying her time with her mom and then Tanner checks in to the
B&B which kills the holiday vibe for her and then to make matters worse
Pepper comes to the town next.
But in the days following Josie begins to see Tanner in a new light as
they share personal information about themselves and soon a holiday romance
begins to blossom between them just in time for Christmas.
Struggling singing waitress and mother Audrey Turner (Jackie Seiden) and wealthy music executive Julia Samson (Ashley Wood) are both at the same mall and in the same store.
Audrey is cursed with not being able to say no to anyone and as a
result has no time for herself.
Julia's life on the other hand is full of luxury, but because of her career
she is unable to connect with her family.
In the store they both reach for the same decoration and make a wish
that their lives were different and the next morning they wake up in each
other’s beds, each other's lives, and in each other’s bodies.
After freaking out they meet up and try to figure out how they swapped
and more importantly how they can swap back.
It turns out that the only way is to live each other’s lives and learn
how to put things right.
As Christmas looms close, they help each other switch back before they
miss Christmas with their own families.
Darcy Archer (Ali Liebert) and Aiden Harris (Peter Porte) prepare to
celebrate their second Christmas together, with Darcy running Henley's and
Aiden is a crafts teacher.
But all is not plain sailing as they have an unexpected guest staying
with Mrs. Henley (Tina Lifford) in the shape of Marcus (Dominic Mariche) who
bonds with Bailey the dog, for obvious reasons and with Aiden through a model
village project he’s working on as a gift for Darcy.
But the overwhelming topic on everyone’s minds is the beloved community
centre, which is threatened with closure as the rich owner David Pearce (Ben
Wilkinson) plans to sell it for a lucrative development.
But as the community all have memories tied to the centre everyone
unites to seek historical protection and give everyone an unforgettable
holiday.
As she is driving home, Jess (Aisha Dee) is preoccupied with texting following the best first date of her life with Ben (Kendrick Sampson) and is killed in a car crash and after the accident she wakes up as a ghost.
She is unable to move on, so she assumes she has to settle unfinished
business first.
She is drawn to her best friend Kara (Kimiko Glenn) and is surprised
that she can see her so they embark on an hilarious, bittersweet final
adventure to determine what it is that’s keeping her earthbound so that Jess
can ascend to the afterlife.
Huge Christmas fans, Ella Dashwood (Erin Krakow) and her sister Marianne (Kimberley Sustad) are joint owners of the family party-planning business although Ella has only been on board for a year, having led a bit of a wanderlust existence so Marianne is less than sure her sister is fully committed to the business.
Which is why when Ella suggests expanding the business Marianne shuts
her down.
However, after a chance meeting with Edward Ferris (Luke Macfarlane),
the company's C.E.O. of a Toy Company, and a subsequent bit of eaves dropping
in a bar, Ella commits Dashwood’s to planning a last-minute Christmas Party to
impress one of Edwards most important clients.
Her overly enthusiastic Christmas spirit and his not-so-jolly dourness
cause some clashes as they didn't see eye-to-eye on much at all but in the end,
she warms him up, in more ways than one, and despite the occasional planning
hitch the event is a great success for both companies.
However, Ella not only works her Christmas Magic on the party she also
got into his heart and he into hers.
Widowed mother Erin Oliver (Stephanie Bennett) reluctantly takes her daughters Peyton and Carter (Lina Renna and Emma Oliver) to spend Christmas with her estranged Dad Gary (Brent Stait) and stepmom Farrah (Colleen Wheeler) on his Texas ranch.
On the way to the ranch, the tarpaulin comes adrift, shedding parcels
all over the road, and Mateo, a family friend of her father, local Mexican
restaurant owner Mateo Verdosa (Marco Grazzini) comes to her aid and sparks clearly
fly.
Over the coming days Erin spends a lot of time with Mateo but her
strained relationship with her dad keeps niggling at her, but the girls love
him, and she can see he is a good and loving grandpa.
But in the end, she needs to forgive her father for the past and enjoy
the fact that she had unexpectedly fallen in love with Mateo.
Heroine of a trio of superhero movies, Olivia O'Hara (Tori Anderson) is dumped before Christmas by her rock star boyfriend Ryan Wrangler (Matthew James Dowden).
So, to avoid the reporters and paparazzi she secretly returns home to
small town Happy Valley, Colorado, unannounced to spend Christmas with her
family.
All she wants to do is watch Christmas Movies, eat cookies and avoid
the press, but instead she has to go to the store for condensed milk which is
where she runs into an old high school classmate, Casey Rawlins, (Victor Zinck
Jr.) who now teaches English at Eagle Heights, their old school.
So instead of being a couch potato for the holidays she finds herself
directing the Christmas Eve school show.
As a result, she spends the holiday busily directing the show,
avoiding the paps and falling in love.
Hope (Jeni Ross) was abandoned as a baby and left in a diner booth and
was discovered by waitress Louise Jensen (Jodi Larratt) who adopted her.
Hope has a very happy life with her adoptive mum until the time Louise
is suddenly taken ill and passes away.
The day after the funeral she returns home to the apartment to find it
has been burgled.
As the Police Officer is taking her statement Hope is feeling at her
absolute lowest and then she discovered a Christmas Jar left anonymously in the
hallway outside her apartment filled with coins and bank notes.
As a reporter for an online publication, she is tasked with writing a
feelgood holiday piece, so she decides to investigate the "Christmas
Jars" which have become a widespread phenomenon and tries to uncover the
secret benefactors.
Using her journalistic skills, she tracks down the original act of
kindness to the Maxwell family who have a business restoring used furniture.
Posing as a customer she manages to worm her way into the bossom of a
loving family, but she gets in too deep and falls in love with Ian Maxwell
(Markian Tarasiuk) but when the truth gets out that love will be put at risk.
Amalie Hess (Ashley Newbrough) is a magazine feature writer dolling out relationship guidance but is sadly lacking herself in the relationship and romance department.
So, when she receives a Christmas card containing an unsigned love
letter from someone she was at school with, full of romance and longing, the
envelope bearing the postmark from her hometown, she starts to try and find out
who the sender was.
So, to tackle the puzzle of who sent it head on she decided to head
home and possibly discover the author.
The first person she meets is her old school friend Ian McCallister
(Tilky Jones) and his daughter Marty (Izzy Herbert), so would they shed any
light?
Or will she need to look further afield to find true love.
After her landslide loss in her political campaign for a City Council
seat Julia (Jacky Lai) returns to her hometown of North Falls to lick her
wounds and drown her sorrows in eggnog.
Almost the moment she returns she runs into her old high school rival,
and crush, Parker (Jake Epstein) who unknown to her still carried a torch for
her.
At the tree lighting ceremony North Falls Mayor Rodriguez (Stephanie
Herrera) resigns, so an emergency election is called for Christmas Eve.
When Julie discovers Parker is running opposed, she just can’t help
herself and throws her hat in the ring as well on a whim.
As their campaigns get under way, they spend more time flirting than
they do canvassing for votes.
By the time their political race comes to a head, Julia and Parker had discovered winning the election wasn’t everything, they had won a much greater prize.
Childhood friends and co-founders of CJ Toys, Christmas Winnacker
(Marisol Nichols) and Joe Sullivan (Paul Greene) part company after a disagreement
over the direction the company was going in and they didn’t speak again,
until….
Seven years later Chris plans to merge with Arlo Toys and she would be
CEO of the of the new company.
However, in order for the deal to go through she needs Joe to sign off
on the deal, which means she needs to find him and speak with him.
If that wasn’t enough to deal with, she also had to look after her
teenage niece Emma (Veronica Marin-Estrada) while her parents were away.
Chris tracks Joe down to the Antiques and Collectibles store owned by
his father Tucker (James M Jenkinson) where Joe was working in the Toy
Hospital.
Joe agrees to sign the papers in return for Chris volunteering to help
with his fundraiser, the Christmas Toy Drive Jamboree, culminating on December
23rd.
During that time Chris, rediscovers the spirit that made them start CJ
Toys together in the first place and she begins to see Joe in a different light
as she recalls unspoken feeling she had since childhood which she is unsure
what to do with and then he tells her he has secretly been in love with her
since they were ten.
After her landslide loss in her political campaign for a City Council
seat Julia (Jacky Lai) returns to her hometown of North Falls to lick her
wounds and drown her sorrows in eggnog.
Almost the moment she returns she runs into her old high school rival,
and crush, Parker (Jake Epstein) who unknown to her still carried a torch for
her.
At the tree lighting ceremony North Falls Mayor Rodriguez (Stephanie
Herrera) resigns, so an emergency election is called for Christmas Eve.
When Julie discovers Parker is running opposed, she just can’t help herself
and throws her hat in the ring as well on a whim.
As their campaigns get under way, they spend more time flirting than
they do canvassing for votes.
By the time their political race comes to a head, Julia and Parker had
discovered winning the election wasn’t everything, they had won a much greater
prize.
Childhood friends and co-founders of CJ Toys, Christmas Winnacker
(Marisol Nichols) and Joe Sullivan (Paul Greene) part company after a
disagreement over the direction the company was going in and they didn’t speak
again, until….
Seven years later Chris plans to merge with Arlo Toys and she would be
CEO of the of the new company.
However, in order for the deal to go through she needs Joe to sign off
on the deal, which means she needs to find him and speak with him.
If that wasn’t enough to deal with, she also had to look after her
teenage niece Emma (Veronica Marin-Estrada) while her parents were away.
Chris tracks Joe down to the Antiques and Collectibles store owned by
his father Tucker (James M Jenkinson) where Joe was working in the Toy
Hospital.
Joe agrees to sign the papers in return for Chris volunteering to help
with his fundraiser, the Christmas Toy Drive Jamboree, culminating on December
23rd.
During that time Chris, rediscovers the spirit that made them start CJ
Toys together in the first place and she begins to see Joe in a different light
as she recalls unspoken feeling she had since childhood which she is unsure
what to do with and then he tells her he has secretly been in love with her
since they were ten.
Singleton socialite Angie Moore (Liliana Tandon) is living the good
life in New York City and although she is kind-hearted and thoughtful, she is
spoiled by the financial support she receives from her mother Margaret
(Lorraine Bracco).
But she has had enough so 25 days before Christmas she cuts Angie off
and she is devastated but determined to continue her lavish lifestyle.
So, when she discovers the existence of a sizable trust fund she will
inherit once she marries she thinks Christmas has come early.
Angie decides to find a man to marry by Christmas and thinks she has a
suitable candidate in the form of her high school crush Tyler Davis (Charles
Hittinger) so she heads back to her small hometown of Greenwood.
But although Tyler agrees to marry her for a cut of the fund its his
best friend Gabe Hudson (Dean Geyer) who finds his way into her heart.
Two sisters Kristina and Vicky Marshall Deborah (Joy Winans and Lisa Michelle Cornelius) have drifted apart since the death of their mother and their Aunt Debbie (Marium Carvell) has had enough of their foolishness so decides on an intervention.
As an early Christmas gift, she uses part of their inheritance to book
them into an all exclusive luxury Christmas resort.
Despite the initial discomfort at spending the holidays together, and
the appearance of their childhood rival, Regine Radcliffe (Kyana Teresa) they
eventually thaw and reconcile past and present and even land themselves a
little Christmas boo.
Heroine of a trio of superhero movies, Olivia O'Hara (Tori Anderson)
is dumped before Christmas by her rock star boyfriend Ryan Wrangler (Matthew
James Dowden).
So, to avoid the reporters and paparazzi she secretly returns home to
small town Happy Valley, Colorado, unannounced to spend Christmas with her
family.
All she wants to do is watch Christmas Movies, eat cookies and avoid the
press, but instead she has to go to the store for condensed milk which is where
she runs into an old high school classmate, Casey Rawlins, (Victor Zinck Jr.)
who now teaches English at Eagle Heights, their old school.
So instead of being a couch potato for the holidays she finds herself
directing the Christmas Eve school show.
As a result, she spends the holiday busily directing the show,
avoiding the paps and falling in love.
Young businesswoman Noelle (Christina Milian) was raised by the queen
of Christmas, so as an adult she had no love for the season.
So, when she inherits her late mother's house at Christmastime, she
travels to her old childhood home with the intention of selling it as quickly
as possible and getting out again.
Once in the house her worst fears are realised, she finds out that her
mother had hired someone to decorate it for the holidays, Dave (Mark Taylor) to
carry on the tradition.
As the lights and tinsel go up, Noelle's defences begin to come down
and as her feeling for Dave grow, she decides to embrace him, Christmas and the
town's Christmas gala that was her mother's legacy.
Jessica Byrnes (Shein Mompremier) is a talented but struggling Chef
living in a trendy New York borough and trying to get her new restaurant up and
running.
Then one day Prince Jack (Travis Burns) walks in and her life changes
forever.
He is in the City to oversee and host his family's annual Christmas
charity dinner and has just sacked his head Chef and after tasting Jessica’s
meatloaf he offered her the job, shocking her and his Royal entourage in equal
measure.
She reluctantly agrees because she knows it could make or break her
career but she finds Jack very charming and very persuasive and they hit it
off.
But as their relationship evolves romance blooms, but they face
mounting obstacles including the wrath of the Queen.
the dinner arrives and despite the Royal objections Jessica is a great
success and gets a Christmas present she could never have imagined.
Widowed mother Erin Oliver (Stephanie Bennett) reluctantly takes her
daughters Peyton and Carter (Lina Renna and Emma Oliver) to spend Christmas
with her estranged Dad Gary (Brent Stait) and stepmom Farrah (Colleen Wheeler)
on his Texas ranch.
On the way to the ranch, the tarpaulin comes adrift, shedding parcels
all over the road, and Mateo, a family friend of her father, local Mexican
restaurant owner Mateo Verdosa (Marco Grazzini) comes to her aid and sparks
clearly fly.
Over the coming days Erin spends a lot of time with Mateo but her
strained relationship with her dad keeps niggling at her, but the girls love
him, and she can see he is a good and loving grandpa.
But in the end, she needs to forgive her father for the past and enjoy
the fact that she had unexpectedly fallen in love with Mateo.
Anne Garrison (Brooke D'Orsay) is head toy buyer for Sinclair's chain
of department stores and is riding high when she leaves New York City for North
Bay, Maine, to help her father Bill (Ron Lea) close up his store, Garrison's
Toys, due to his impending retirement.
What he wants is for Anne to take over the store and run it, but she
already has a job, which she keeps reminding him.
So, her mindset is very much on packing up the store and returning to
the City, but then she meets Wood Mill manager Keith McClain (Trevor Donovan)
and his ten year old daughter Jessie (Jenna Weir) and her mind is not quite as
set as it was.
In part its due to a set of themed wooden Santa’s which Anne carved
just before she went away to college, which seem to work magic for the people
who receive them.
But also, it’s the love and nostalgia that brings the city girl back
to her small-town roots.
Amalie Hess (Ashley Newbrough) is a magazine feature writer dolling
out relationship guidance but is sadly lacking herself in the relationship and
romance department.
So, when she receives a Christmas card containing an unsigned love
letter from someone she was at school with, full of romance and longing, the
envelope bearing the postmark from her hometown, she starts to try and find out
who the sender was.
So, to tackle the puzzle of who sent it head on she decided to head
home and possibly discover the author.
The first person she meets is her old school friend Ian McCallister
(Tilky Jones) and his daughter Marty (Izzy Herbert), so would they shed any
light?
Or will she need to look further afield to find true love.
Late one night, in the run up to Christmas, Marketing Executive Lauren
Kim (Catherine Haena Kim) has fallen asleep in her apartment while working on a
last minute work project.
While asleep she is visited by the spirit of her first ever boyfriend,
Tyler Mirsky (Jordan Kronis) and he tells her she will be visited by three
other ex-boyfriends before Christmas.
On waking she dismisses it as just a very odd dream, but right on cue
came Jake (Karn Kalra), then Henry (Ish Morris) and finally Logan (Jon McLaren)
and all of then showed her their break up moments.
It soon becomes apparent that the one thing they all had in common was
when they broke up, Christmas.
The other thing they had in common was her best friend, Nate Sagar
(Raymond Ablack), who was a constant in her life, through thick and thin.
She comes to the conclusion that she must learn to open her heart to
Nate or risk losing him forever.
Tennessee girl Rachel Davis (Danica McKellar) is a New York City event
planner and having successfully concluded the final event on her calendar for
the year she travels home for the holidays with her daughter Ava (Zoë Noelle
Baker).
Although her intention was to just enjoy the holidays with her family,
she ends up working on the thirtieth anniversary Christmas event at Dollywood
with the theme park's Director of Operations Luke Hackman (Niall Matter).
As they work closely to make it a memorable 30th Anniversary they
spend an increasing amount of time just enjoying the season and each other.
The only thing is that Rachel is going back to New York after the
holidays to take up a promotion and Luke is headed out of Dollywood to Wild
West Amusements, unless Christmas love gets into their hearts.
Hope (Jeni Ross) was abandoned as a baby and left in a diner booth and
was discovered by waitress Louise Jensen (Jodi Larratt) who adopted her.
Hope has a very happy life with her adoptive mum until the time Louise
is suddenly taken ill and passes away.
The day after the funeral she returns home to the apartment to find it
has been burgled.
As the Police Officer is taking her statement Hope is feeling at her
absolute lowest and then she discovered a Christmas Jar left anonymously in the
hallway outside her apartment filled with coins and bank notes.
As a reporter for an online publication, she is tasked with writing a
feelgood holiday piece, so she decides to investigate the "Christmas
Jars" which have become a widespread phenomenon and tries to uncover the
secret benefactors.
Using her journalistic skills, she tracks down the original act of
kindness to the Maxwell family who have a business restoring used furniture.
Posing as a customer she manages to worm her way into the bossom of a
loving family, but she gets in too deep and falls in love with Ian Maxwell
(Markian Tarasiuk) but when the truth gets out that love will be put at risk.
As she is driving home, Jess (Aisha Dee) is preoccupied with texting
following the best first date of her life with Ben (Kendrick Sampson) and is
killed in a car crash and after the accident she wakes up as a ghost.
She is unable to move on, so she assumes she has to settle unfinished
business first.
She is drawn to her best friend Kara (Kimiko Glenn) and is surprised
that she can see her so they embark on an hilarious, bittersweet final
adventure to determine what it is that’s keeping her earthbound so that Jess
can ascend to the afterlife.
Huge Christmas fans, Ella Dashwood (Erin Krakow) and her sister
Marianne (Kimberley Sustad) are joint owners of the family party-planning
business although Ella has only been on board for a year, having led a bit of a
wanderlust existence so Marianne is less than sure her sister is fully
committed to the business.
Which is why when Ella suggests expanding the business Marianne shuts
her down.
However, after a chance meeting with Edward Ferris (Luke Macfarlane),
the company's C.E.O. of a Toy Company, and a subsequent bit of eaves dropping
in a bar, Ella commits Dashwood’s to planning a last-minute Christmas Party to
impress one of Edwards most important clients.
Her overly enthusiastic Christmas spirit and his not-so-jolly dourness
cause some clashes as they didn't see eye-to-eye on much at all but in the end,
she warms him up, in more ways than one, and despite the occasional planning
hitch the event is a great success for both companies.
However, Ella not only works her Christmas Magic on the party she also
got into his heart and he into hers.
Darcy Archer (Ali Liebert) and Aiden Harris (Peter Porte) prepare to
celebrate their second Christmas together, with Darcy running Henley's and
Aiden is a crafts teacher.
But all is not plain sailing as they have an unexpected guest staying
with Mrs. Henley (Tina Lifford) in the shape of Marcus (Dominic Mariche) who
bonds with Bailey the dog, for obvious reasons and with Aiden through a model
village project he’s working on as a gift for Darcy.
But the overwhelming topic on everyone’s minds is the beloved
community centre, which is threatened with closure as the rich owner David
Pearce (Ben Wilkinson) plans to sell it for a lucrative development.
But as the community all have memories tied to the centre everyone
unites to seek historical protection and give everyone an unforgettable
holiday.
After celebrated chef Josie Byrde (Kim Shaw) is surprised at her
restaurant by her nemesis, food critic, Tanner Rhodes (Clayton James) and his
editor Pepper Fine (Katrina Norman) she heads home for the holidays.
Her mother Shannon (Cynthia Gibb) is opening a bistro at her
bed-and-breakfast and Josie is creating a special Holiday dessert menu for her.
She is enjoying her time with her mom and then Tanner checks in to the
B&B which kills the holiday vibe for her and then to make matters worse
Pepper comes to the town next.
But in the days following Josie begins to see Tanner in a new light as
they share personal information about themselves and soon a holiday romance
begins to blossom between them just in time for Christmas.
Struggling singing waitress and mother Audrey Turner (Jackie Seiden)
and wealthy music executive Julia Samson (Ashley Wood) are both at the same mall
and in the same store.
Audrey is cursed with not being able to say no to anyone and as a
result has no time for herself.
Julia's life on the other hand is full of luxury, but because of her
career she is unable to connect with her family.
In the store they both reach for the same decoration and make a wish
that their lives were different and the next morning they wake up in each
other’s beds, each other's lives, and in each other’s bodies.
After freaking out they meet up and try to figure out how they swapped
and more importantly how they can swap back.
It turns out that the only way is to live each other’s lives and learn
how to put things right.
As Christmas looms close, they help each other switch back before they
miss Christmas with their own families.
Carmen Tirado (Camila Banus) is a wonderful pastry chef who dreams of
opening her own pastry shop.
But dreams are all they are until her sister Pilar (Melissa Marty) enters
her into a competition to cook at a Grand Christmas Event.
Because she has had no formal training and she is up against
professionally qualified Chefs, she is terrified.
Despite her nerves and self-doubt she wins a place in the kitchen and
is paired with Jax (Mark Hapka) and have to jointly plan for the function and
have to learn from one another, but there is some initial friction between
them, but they eventually come together to create a truly inspired menu in time
for Christmas and have found their way into each other’s hearts along the way.
Lauren (Paige Bach) is a hard-working advertising executive who has been given the chance to come up with a campaign to land a big account for an exclusive brand of European chocolates for the upcoming holiday season.
The only downside being that she has to work with a consultant from
Europe named Paul (James Nitti) which she resents, but as they begin to make
progress on the campaign, she begins to fall for him.
But as he begins to reciprocate her feelings, she discovers Paul is
actually Prince Edward Charles, a member of European royalty disguised as a
commoner.
She is devastated to find out he has deceived her but her feelings for
him have not changed.
So will she listen to her heart and forgive him or close her heart
again.
Mandy Leeds (Jonna Walsh) is steadily climbing the corporate ladder in the hotel industry and living in sunny Miami, however when she is on her way home to spend Christmas with her Gram (Jayne Eastwood) she bumps into her old high school rival Lucas Menzino (Jesse Hutch).
She doesn't get back to her small hometown very often, but her Grams invite wasn’t the only reason for her return.
The main purpose in town was to acquire, for her company, the Chesterwood, a quaint local Inn which is up for sale.
Unfortunately, she finds out that her archival Lucas has got his eye on the Inn as well.
So, the contest is on for them to outbid each other but all the while they are keeping their respective eyes on the prize, they are getting closer and closer and by the end they both realise what the real prize is.
Mandy Leeds (Jonna Walsh) is steadily climbing the corporate ladder in
the hotel industry and living in sunny Miami, however when she is on her way
home to spend Christmas with her Gram (Jayne Eastwood) she bumps into her old
high school rival Lucas Menzino (Jesse Hutch).
She doesn't get back to her small hometown very often, but her Grams
invite wasn’t the only reason for her return.
The main purpose in town was to acquire, for her company, the
Chesterwood, a quaint local Inn which is up for sale.
Unfortunately, she finds out that her archival Lucas has got his eye
on the Inn as well.
So, the contest is on for them to outbid each other but all the while
they are keeping their respective eyes on the prize, they are getting closer
and closer and by the end they both realise what the real prize is.
San Francisco travel and lifestyle blogger, Aubrey Lang (Natalie Hall)
visits the Danish-settled Californian village of Solvang for her next holiday
vlog piece.
Solvang was chosen after it was voted most Christmassy Town in the USA
and her first impression was that it was a festive tourist trap.
Then she meets Sawyer Larsen (Jon Prescott) Chocolate Shop owner and
local community coordinator who is assigned to show her around the small town.
At first the unlikely pairing are at odds but amidst the romantic
little Danish village backdrop and twinkling lights they soon start to fall for
each other and she realises Christmas magic is for real and so is the love they
are feeling.
Hannah Pressman (Jen Lilley) works at the family's publishing company
in Angel Falls, which they want to expand but are unsure which direction they
should take.
But then Ryan MacDonald (Carlo Marks) arrives in town to sort out his
parent’s estate.
He is an old friend, but also a rival from their school days and her
parents engages him as a marketing consultant to help with their expansion
which upsets Hannah.
But it’s a new tenant in Ryan's parents’ house, famous author Tina
Finnegan (Rachael Crawford) and Guardian Angel Anthony (Eric Close) who are
instrumental in bringing Hannah and Ryan together in a perfect Angel Falls
romance.
Andrew and Corinne Campbell (Chuck Wicks and Sunny Mabrey) decided to
give up City life and move to a farm with their children Max and Izzy
(Christian Finlayson and Abby James Witherspoon).
In order to make ends meet while they get on their feet, they have a
booth at the Christmas Carnival and Max and Izzy have to take care of the
Petting Zoo, which is quite chaotic.
That all changes however when Nancy (Charlene Tilton) arrives at the
Carnival with a rescued white pony, which Izzy immediately sees for what it is,
a Unicorn, which she names “Snowflake”.
All the other children see it’s a Unicorn too, so the petting Zoo
becomes a great success, so much so that greedy fair owner Horace (Ed Marinaro)
steals Snowflake and goes to a neighbouring town.
So, it’s up to Izzy and Max to mount a rescue mission and bring
Snowflake home where it belongs.
A Gift to Remember is Based on the book by Melissa Hill, in which handsome Aiden Harris (Peter Porte) visits one of Philadelphia's last old-fashioned bookstores and has an accident after leaving which leaves him in hospital with amnesia.
Darcy Archer (Ali Liebert), enthusiastic bookshop employee, with
dreams of succeeding as proprietor when the current owner retires, feels
responsible for the accident, so visits him regularly, looks after his dog and
helps to identify him and the life he can’t remember.
The couple soon bond over a shared interest in books, dogs and almost
everything else, but she discovers a ring in his apartment which suggests he
has a fiancée living in a different state.
So, will she lose the man she is falling for and will the bookstore be
sold to a soulless chain.
Music store owner Meg Reilly (Alicia Witt) loves the Christmas Tree Lane shopping district so when all the stores get eviction notices she spearheads the community efforts to save them from demolition.
Around the same time, she makes the acquaintance of Nate Williams (Andrew
W. Walker) and there is an instant attraction, and they meet numerous times
after and clearly enjoy each other’s company especially when he gets involved
with the campaign to save Christmas Tree Lane.
However, as they find themselves falling for each other, they are both
shocked to find out he is actually working for the developer Meg is fighting.
But he becomes instrumental in saving the shopping district from
development and her heart is won.
Lucy Mortimer (Monique Coleman) is a successful attorney and looking forward to spending Christmas with her mom Virginia (Kim Roberts) in her hometown but at the last minute they decide to return to the Winterleigh Resort in order to celebrate the Hotel’s final Christmas season before the resort closes its doors for ever.
Almost immediately she is reunited with the owner’s nephew Barrett
Brewster (Corbin Bleu) who just happens to be her childhood Christmas dance
partner.
Sadly, the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most
holiday events, but Lucy and Barrett spearhead the effort to recreate all the
wonderful Christmas traditions that everyone loved so much, including the
Christmas Dance.
Sparks fly between them and with their passion the pair give the resort
a new lease of life.
The only thing left is for Lucy to take a risk on love as she partners
up once more with Barrett for what could be the first of many Christmas Dances.
Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan (Kathryn Davis) runs a concierge business, and Christmas is her busiest season, and she gets some very strange requests, but she takes them all in her stride.
So, when one of her most important clients asks her stay at her son’s
Penthouse while he is in Vermont in exchange for decorating the place and
stocking his freezer with home-cooked food, she doesn’t miss a beat.
She is looking forward to staying in a luxury 5th Avenue Penthouse
apartment for a few weeks but her peace and quiet is cut short when the
grieving reclusive best-selling author Lucas Blade (Olivier Renaud) shows up
unexpectedly.
After the initial shock for both of them passes an uneasy peace
descends while the perky and sunny Eva gradually thaws out the cold fish and
when the moody writer finally warms up a Christmas love is on the cards.
The School Board has decided her Middle school will be closing in the
New Year so Principal Addison Tate (Cindy Sampson) wants the last Christmas to
be really special for her kids because it’s going to be the last.
So, she invites former alumni and old flame, Hollywood star Dylan
Davidson (Steve Byers) to direct the school play in an effort to save the
school.
Initially his Manager Garth Turnbull (Arnold Pinnock) ignores her
calls but as he has no other work in the pipeline Dylan agrees and it looks
like its mutually beneficial.
However, it is a mutual attraction which dominates their run up to
Christmas.
As she has missed every family gathering since the previous Christmas
successful business consultant Emily Nichols (Paniz Zade), is desperate to get
home for Christmas.
But a last-minute pitch to the CEO of the company delays her start and
things go from bad to worse after that as she encounters problem after problem,
a missed cab, public transport issues, diverted flights, broken-down trains and
even a lost wallet, and each and every set back put her holiday plans in
jeopardy.
Luckily, she has a fellow traveller constantly by her side Simon
Allein (Adrian Spencer), a stranger who’s a “go-with-the-flow” kind of guy who
always sees the bright side, Emily is the complete opposite.
But if they want to get home, they have to rely on one another to get
to their final destination and as they face each test they provide ample
opportunity to get to know each other and what they find out they like so they
end up falling in love.
When New York City lawyer Julia Crawley (Rachel Boston) returns to her
Rocky Mountain hometown of Crestridge and her family’s lovely Inn for the
holidays, she is just in time for the Centennial Christmas celebration.
The first person she encounters when she disembarks the train is
Ryan Mason (Wes Brown) the handsome son of the family who run another
Inn that is her family’s biggest competition.
Although they are on opposite sides of a generations-old feud between
the Crawley’s and the Mason’s there is a mutual attraction which grows day by
day.
As the “forbidden” romance blossoms between Julia and Ryan they must
try and unite their families in order to save their family Inns from a resort
chain.
Megan (Michelle Argyris) is a godsend during the holidays as she uses
the weeks leading up to every Christmas to help around with any Christmas
related tasks and saves the day for those who find the season taxing.
Then due to a misunderstanding when she visits a store called Trinkets
and Toys she is mistaken for some kind of business guru by an investor.
As a result, the two owners Kurt and Mike (Travis Nelson and Marcello
Di Fruscia) hire her to create a fantastic Christmas store display and increase
footfall.
The investor David is impressed and insistent that she continue but
she and Kurt continually clash but with each successive day she wears him down
and works her way into his heart and he into hers.
Natalie Rogers (Anni Krueger) learns that her cousin Olivia (Nia Vardalos) has to cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant because bad weather has her grounded in Rome.
Natalie’s heart goes out to Olivia and all of the guests who were
planning on attending so, despite having no experience in such things she
decides she will open it for her.
Luckily, an attractive if pessimistic chef named Stefano Grimaldi
(Gilles Marini) is on hand.
Although he thinks getting ready to open with only three days until
Christmas is impossible, but her positivity overrules his pessimism and with
the help of two young students BeeBee Jordan and Tyler (Emma Myers and Andrew
Brodeur) they overcome all the obstacles.
And of course, there is love on the menu.
Librarian Melody (Janel Parrish) is new in town and moves into a fixer
upper and instantly forms a friendship with her neighbour Nina (Marisol
Nichols) and her two daughters Holly and Ivy (Sadie Coleman and Piper Rubio).
Her plan is to get a job at one of the local Libraries and slowly work
on her house but when she finds out that Nina’s cancer has returned and she is
gravely ill her plans change.
Nina confesses to her that she is afraid of what will become of her
daughters when she is gone as she has no other family and without a second’s
hesitation Melody says that she will adopt them.
In order for that to happen her house has to be habitable for her to
be a viable candidate to adopt so she has to step up her renovations.
Adam (Jeremy Jordan) a local contractor comes to her aid with support
and love.
And when the community get to hear what she is planning to do for her
friend, help comes from every direction to make her house a perfect home to
raise Holly and Ivy.
At a Bourbon Street lounge in New Orleans, in the run up to Christmas, Lindsey Scott (Marla Sokoloff) and Wes Bailey (Rob Mayes) are a reluctant duelling pianos/singing act, that reluctance being due to them being complete opposites.
Lindsey is
classically trained and structured whereas Wes is more relaxed, and more Jazz
oriented.
Their last
gig of the year is cancelled at the last minute and as the money from that show
was going to fund her flight home for Christmas, she is left deflated.
Her sister
Allie (Whitney Palmer) is almost due with her first baby so her need to get
home promptly was acute Wes on the other hand needed to get home to see his
sick mother before she passed.
In passing
conversation it transpired that they were both from small hometowns just outside
of Akron, so he suggests that they drive the fifteen-hour straight through
journey together and she reluctantly agrees.
On the road
trip, they meet one obstacle after another, detours, breakdowns, adverse
weather, all of which threatened to prevent them from reaching their respective
homes in time for Christmas.
But as a
result, they have to spend more time together than they expected and in the
process, they truly to get to know and understand each other.
And somewhere
along the way they fell in love.
Bill and Phylis Mitchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) are at a crossroads in their lives and marriage, so they summon their two grown sons Mike and Brandon (Robert Buckley and Jonathan Bennett) home for the holidays.
The hope is
that bringing the family together to recreate “The Christmas House” once again
will help them make a memorable holiday for the entire family and community.
What the boys
are unaware of is that the reason for resurrecting the “Christmas House”
tradition was that it was to be the swan song as they were selling up.
The realtor
turns out to be Mike’s high-school sweetheart Andi Cruz (Ana Ayora) who did not
part in the best of ways so their reunion is quite frosty.
However,
while Brandon and his husband Jake (Brad Harder) are anxiously awaiting a call
about the adoption of their first child Mike and Andi reconnect and the love
they shared in their youth would soon burn bright again.
Allie (Rebecca Dalton) is an unemployed art teacher who reluctantly accepts a job with the Santa Squad.
The Squad are
employed for a myriad of Christmas tasks and projects and Allie is sent to the
home of a wealthy widower Gordon Church (Aaron Ashmore) and his two adorable
daughters, Rose and Iris (Hattie Kragten and Molly Lewis) to help get the house
ready for Christmas.
But she
decides that while she is doing that, she can help lift the spirits of a broken
family so that they can rediscover the magic of Christmas.
What she
didn’t expect however was that the magic of Christmas would provide her with
true love.
Christmas is the busiest season for Lori (Soleil Moon Frye) as she stages homes for a living, and the one thing all the homes she dresses have in common is that they are for sale.
So, she is
naturally intrigued when Everett (George Stults), a wealthy widower, hires her
to stage his home for the holidays, not to sell, but to cheer up his daughter,
Maddie (Mia Clark).
However, it
soon becomes apparent as she begins to dress the house for the holidays that
Maddie isn't the only one who needs to feel the benefit of Christmas spirit.
Although she was originally hired just to stage the perfect Christmas in their house, she starts to feel like part of the family as she spends more and more time with Everett and Maddie, and she really likes it.
In Greenwich Village, jewellery designer Holly Hayes (Ashley Greene) works in the Vintage Clothing Shop run by her best friend Megan Snyder (Britt Irvin) and designs jewellery in her spare time.
One day
Holly finds a valuable charm bracelet in the pocket of a donated coat, and she
naturally reaches the conclusion that the bracelet, with many bespoke Christmas
themed charms, was donated in error.
Holly makes
it her mission to discover the owner and return the bracelet before Christmas.
Reluctantly
she teams up with a magazine reporter Greg Matthews (Brendan Penny), who wants
to assist her as he wants to write about her his "Christmas Hero"
story.
The
combination of her Jewellery expertise, keen instincts and his investigative
reporter experience soon unearth the bracelets origins and the love story it
represents.
But by the
time they track down the owner they have written a love story of their own.
Miranda (Alicia Dea Josipovic) and Paul (Travis Nelson) both meet at a Secret Santa party where they have both disguised their identities and they click instantly and are clearly on the same wavelength.
They agree
to keep their disguises on and their anonymity until after the party, but they
are separated before they can exchange numbers and have no way of finding each
other.
Miranda is
a talented tech guru who has developed an app to help Christmas shoppers select
the perfect gift for their recipients, but is upset to find that her app has
been sold to another company which in turn merges with a rival and she has to
work jointly with one of the enemy on the holiday gift-giving app.
Her rival
turns out to be her mystery man Paul from the Secret Santa but neither of them
know so sparks fly between them but as they work together, they develop unexpected
feelings for one another even before they discover their previous interactions.
Carly Hayes (Erin Agostino) is a food correspondent who finally gets a shot at her own show, but to secure her dream she is sent on assignment to Angel Heights to assist renowned Chef Grant Quinn (Dillon Casey) with the opening of his new diner and film it as a Holiday special for her TV show.
Unfortunately,
he is grouchy, camera shy and opposed to all things Christmas, so she has her
work cut out.
Her only
ally is his young daughter Tess (Maya Misaljevic).
When she finds out why he is apprehensive about publicity and has a major downer on Christmas she sees him in a different light, and she finds it difficult to do the kind of expose that the network wants her to do after she has let him into her heart.
Two years have passed since Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) and her brother Teddy (Judah Lewis) helped Santa save Christmas.
However,
she is now a cynical 13-year-old who is unhappily spending Christmas
with her family in Cancún, Mexico, with her mom Claire (Kimberly
Williams-Paisley), her brother, her mom's new boyfriend Bob Booker (Tyrese
Gibson), and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno), when she would rather be back home,
where there is snow and it feels more like a real Christmas.
So, Kate
decides to run away and uses her mom’s credit card to book an early flight back
home to Boston.
When she is
sneaking out of the Hotel and is unaware, she is being followed by Jack, she is
tricked by an evil Christmas Elf Belsnickel (Julian Dennison), posing as a
driver, to get onto a shuttle, which Jack sneaks on to as well.
But they aren’t
going to the airport, instead they are transported to the North
Pole where they are rescued by Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) who
takes them back to his house where Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn) is
waiting.
Of course,
Belsnickel transported the kids in order to use them as bait to attract Santa
so he could sneak into the Village.
Once inside
he put his plan to take over Christmas for his own evil ends into action.
So not for the first time Kate has to help Santa save Christmas, this time he has Jack and Mrs Claus to help.
Brother and sister Teddy and Kate Pierce (Judah Lewis and Darby Camp) are home alone on Christmas Eve while their widowed mother Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) is working, when Kate blackmails her delinquent brother into helping her set a trap to catch Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) on camera.
But things
don’t go according to plan, and they end up jumping into Santa’s sleigh.
However,
they cause Santa to lose control of the sleigh, his hat to fall to earth,
the reindeer break free and the sleigh to crash, and worst of all, the
sack of presents is lost.
That’s when
the adventure begins to track down the reindeer, the presents and Santa’s magic
hat.
So, with
Christmas morning fast approaching, it is up to the children and Santa to
save Christmas by delivering all of the presents.
Amy Michaels (Elisabeth Harnois) had planned a perfect Christmas in Chicago with her boyfriend, but those plans are ruined when he unexpectedly breaks up with her after telling her he has another girlfriend.
Not wanting to spend Christmas alone she
decides to visit her half-brother Daniel (Samuel Hunt) who is in Vienna trying
to track down relatives on his dad's side of the family.
Looking for new experiences she decides to
take a ballroom dancing lesson and is paired with a very handsome European man
named Lukas (Christian Oliver).
To use terpsichorean parlance, they get off
on the wrong foot, but after initially clashing, their partnership becomes more
harmonious and they end up spending the day together and an attraction forms between
them but will this new found magnetism lead to love or another broken heart.
