Two co-workers,
American Brooke Harris (Vivica A. Fox) and Brit Roger Burkett (Ricco Ross)
agree to a loveless marriage of convenience, but as they become acquainted, an
unrealized chemistry grows between them.
But when a work
colleague informs on them to immigration it looks like their world was falling
apart, but Christmas and love have a way of redressing the balance.
Bob Wallace (Daniel Stern)
goes all out every year on Christmas decorations so that he can have the
brightest and most festive house in his neighbourhood.
Then he got a new neighbour
Stu Jones (Matt Frewer) who put up an even brighter and more lavish display.
And from that moment on the
fight is on when they declare war for the best Christmas decoration display in
the neighbourhood.
Mindy Wallace (Allison Hossack)
and Mary Jones (Teryl Rothery) are the long suffering wives who get sucked into
the madness.
Holly Nolan (Alicia
Witt) lives in a world where lying has become second nature for her. However,
she finds after telling a few too many lies and disappointing those around her
once too often that her life's about to change, because Holly's niece, Anna, (Mia
Bagley), asks Santa Claus (Dan Lauria) to make Holly incapable of telling a lie
as her Christmas wish.
The engaging story
that follows is a tale of how telling the truth changes Holly's life in ways
she could never have anticipated before.
It’s an enjoyable
Christmas movie especially with Alicia Witt’s performance who never
disappoints.
Mia (Haylie Duff), is
the loyal and hard-working manager of her small town's Christmas hat shop, Hats
off to Christmas.
She is hoping that
after over ten years with the company she is due a promotion when she is called
in to see her boss (Jay Brazeau).
However all does not
go as she had hoped and instead of a promotion she is asked to train his son,
Nick (Antonio Cupo), for the vacant upper-management position.
Nick himself gets a
surprise when he finds out that the training is from the bottom up.
And that is the basic
premise for this very likeable seasonal romantic comedy.
Good performances by
Sean Michael Kyer as Mia's wheelchair bound so as her son Scotty and Melanie
Papalia as her friend Ellie add to the overall enjoyment.
This is the beautiful
tale of love and generosity of spirit where neighbours go above and beyond with
their wonderful surprises to make a little girl happy.
At the heart of the
story is Vanessa Marks (Emily Alyn Lind) a brave young girl who is battling
cancer, which has an effect on the people around her.
In particular her
parents Tom and Beth (John Corbett and Sarah Paulson) and her brother Gordon
(Max Charles).
But when it looks like
she may not see Christmas her parents decide to bring Christmas forward so that
she will see another Christmas if the worst came to the worst.
Which is how they came
to meet Jess and Claire Sanford (Sam Elliott and Karen Allen) who had
themselves lost a child, and high school student Tammy (Elizabeth McLaughlin)
who between them made sure Vanessa had Christmas in November.
The look on young
Vanessa’s face when she sees the result is an absolute joy, Emily Alyn Lind’s
performance in the film steals the show, and I say that despite the fact she is
in very esteemed company.
November Christmas is
a lovely family movie, a real, hot chocolate, warm fuzzy blanket kind of film,
oh and a box of tissues for all those tender moments, of which there are many.
If you only ever watch
one Christmas movie in your life, make sure it’s this one.
10-year-old, Jackson
Mayhew (Rory Culkin) moves in with his Aunt (Sherilyn Fenn) after the death of
his parents.
Aunt Patty works the
bar at the Coconut Grotto hotel in Florida and its at the Hotel where Jackson
befriends an elderly man Sam Clausner (Hum Cronyn) and he begins to suspect
that the old man is actually Santa Claus,
The wonderful Hume
Cronyn's is brilliant and plays his role with panache and will be remembered as
a holiday classic.
His flawless performance
was given despite the fact he was almost 90 years old.
Molly Logan (Lacey
Chabert) and Lucas Bishop (Corey Sevier) were childhood friends and high school
sweethearts in Danbury Falls, Vermont, where Molly's family founded the town
two hundred years earlier, and with her immediately family still living on the
same property, where her parents, Gordon and Betty Logan (Eric Keenleyside and
Lini Evans), have continued the family business of operating a Christmas tree
farm.
Since they were children,
Molly knew she wanted to become a writer, a dream which her parents supported
while Lucas knew he wanted to become a photographer, something his banker
father, Elliot Bishop (James Kidnie) vehemently opposed him pursuing as a
career, he believed only in careers like his own, and making money by any and
all means.
When he would not
follow her to New York, where they would have pursued their professional dreams
together, Molly and Lucas broke up and had not seen each other since.
After getting an MBA,
Lucas returned to Danbury Falls to work at the bank for his father.
Molly works at a
publishing house, where she is treated more as a 24/7 PA by her recently
widowed boss, Walter Dunlap (Jim Thorburn) at the expense of her writing
career.
When Molly hears from
her brother Ryan (Matthew Kevin Anderson) that the bank is foreclosing on a
mortgage for the tree farm property they both head back to Danbury Falls to
help their parents save the farm from being turned into a golf resort.
On her return, Molly
runs into Lucas, who is heading the search for investors for the development
proposal and then Christmas begins to work its magic.
