If you like schmaltzy then this is for you.
An
unfulfilled newspaper reporter Rebecca Chandler (Jennie Garth) is looking
forward to a Hawaiian Christmas getaway with her fiancé Ryan but she gets
dumped instead.
Then
to add insult on to injury her editor dumps the annual romantic non-news feel good
story on her which she reluctantly accepts.
She
is sent to the small-town of Hamden in pursuit of the elusive Secret Santa who
every year bestows whatever is desired by a needy recipient.
She
is dogged by bad luck along the way when her car breaks down and the only
lodgings she can get are at a home for the elderly where she meets Miss Ruthie
(Barbara Billingsley) who tries to revive her Christmas spirit.
From
there Rebecca pursues Mr. John Martin Carter (Steven Eckholdt) the rich local
philanthropist whom she supposes to be the Secret Santa.
A
definite feel-good movie.
