A recently engaged
woman, Alex Spencer (Kassia Warshawski) plans a get-together so her parents
Steven and Joyce Spencer (Greg Lawson and Barb Mitchell) can meet the family of
her fiancé Peter (Lucas Bryant) but it turns out that his parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Claus, played by George Wendt and Shelley Long.
It’s a delightful film
which is lots of fun and one for the whole family to enjoy.
Doctor Lauren Brunell
(Candace Cameron Bure) has her life mapped out, but when she doesn't get the
position she wanted, she looks around for something else, believing she was too
late to apply until the following year.
But then she found a
chief of medicine position in Alaska, so she applied and ended up moving to
what proved to be a very remote Alaskan town, but the hospital turned out to be
less than she imagined and she was the only doctor.
Her initial
disappointment however subsided when she got to known the locals and then she
unexpectedly ends up finding love, happiness and discovers that the small town
is hiding a big holiday secret.Top of Form
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Angie Wells (Emma
Rigby) works hard to run her uncle's events business while her cousin Candace
Karilla (Sarah Stouffer) takes the credit.
When Angie takes a
night off to have fun at the Christmasquerade Ball, the mask and gown allow her
to let loose, and she quickly catches the eye of Nicholas Karmichael (Peter
Porte), a wealthy local bachelor.
But then Angie has to
go before revealing her identity, leaving Nicholas searching for his mystery
woman in this enjoyable modern take on the classic Cinderella fairy tale.
When his partner in crime Harry Zordich (David Parker) messes up a department store robbery in December fellow Career criminal Jack Clayton (Tony Danza) can only escape the law in a Santa suit.
He ends up in a small
rural town, and he finds himself forced to accept a menial job under the alias
“Oscar Burton” as Santa in Sarah Gibson's nursery.
Sarah (Lea Thompson)
is a tough task master but Jack is invited into her home and proves a good
substitute father for Sarah's frustrated fatherless daughter Noelle (Angela
Goethals).
The big question is
will he content himself with small town life or will he return to his life of
crime, when his ex-con friend Harry
turns up to plan a bank robbery
For 30 years, Kathleen
(Catherine Mary Stewart) carried around the haunting memory of her father
abandoning her and her mother on Christmas Eve, and for all those years she
blamed her mother for his leaving, eventually unable to separate the joys of
the Christmas season from the pain of her family past she reached the point
where she refused to celebrate Christmas at all
However although she tries to forget her past, she finds it has not forgotten her when Christmas Snow arrives.
When because of a
blizzard, Kathleen finds herself snowed in and stuck in her home with two
strangers during the days leading up to Christmas.
Sam (Muse Watson), a
gentle older man that Kathleen took in for the night, and Lucy (Cameron Ten
Napel), the daughter of her soon to be fiancé, and they bring her face to face
with the painful hurts of her past and she is forced to choose between letting
go of the past with all its pain and bitterness and grabbing hold of a
life-changing forgiveness.
Susan Lucci stars as
ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth “Ebbie” Scrooge in
this updated retelling of Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.
The classic tale in
which she is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit
her, has been brought into contemporary times.
It is refreshing in
this version to have the main character of Ebbie played by a woman as indeed is
her beleaguered employee Roberta 'Robbie' Cratchet played by the ever reliable
Wendy Crewson.
The spirits are given
some modern handling and the way Jake Marley communicates with God by
cell-phone is very amusing and all in all it’s a very enjoyable adaptation.
Cicely Tyson stars as
ruthless business-woman Ms. Ebenita Scrooge in this updated retelling of
Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.
The classic tale in
which she is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit
her brought into contemporary times.
It is refreshing in
this version to have the main character of Ebenita played by a woman as indeed
is Marley played by the amazing Katherine Helmond whose portrayal of Maude
Marley is a joy.
All in all it’s a very
enjoyable adaptation and the final scene will be sure to have you reaching for
the tissues.
