Control freak Caroline Christmas-Hope (Nathalie
Cox) just wants a perfect Christmas because she was mentally scarred when her
father deserted the family on Christmas Day, during her childhood.
She
is hosting Christmas for the whole family at the Hope family mansion in
Yorkshire where she lives with her long-suffering husband, Peter Hope (Kris Marshall) and their twelve-year-old daughter Daisey
(Amelie Prescott) and seven-year-old son Henry (Oliver Smith).
The
whole Christmas family arrive a few days before the holiday, child hating
fashion editor Joanna (Elizabeth Hurley), who is a bit of a
clothes horse and lies about her age, with her latest stock broker lover Felix
(Ray Fearon), man eater Vicky (Talulah Riley), introverted music professor Paulina (Naomi
Frederick), the girls mother Elizabeth (Caroline Quentin) and plain-speaking farmer
uncle John (John Cleese).
Very quickly family squabbles ensue and Carolines
meticulous holiday go awry and then their long-lost father James (Kelsey Grammer)
arrives with his 35-year-old
American girlfriend Jackie (April Bowlby).
So, with Caroline's perfect Christmas now nothing more than a forlorn hope will
events at least uncover the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so
many years earlier and enable them to heal?
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