However, Anthony (Arnell Powell) Angela (Leigh-Ann
Rose) and Jennifer (Khalilah Joi) want the bakery to stay in the family, but
they all have very different ideas of what is best for the business.
So, their parents organize a Christmas Cake Off, of a
traditional family recipe, to choose which one of them is going to take over
the family bakery.
Each of the children is given a clue to make the perfect
batter, but they all fail miserably, until they combine forces to make the
perfect cake.
Since she was a very
little girl her father, Santa Claus encouraged Noelle Kringle (Anna Kendrick)
to ensure everyone at the North Pole kept their Christmas Sprit as well as
supporting and encouraging her brother Nick (Bill Hader), who was ordained to
take over as Santa when the time came.
Well, the time came, and
Nick was not ready, despite all the training and support and gets cold feet, so
Noelle suggests he gets away from the North Pole for a couple of days right
before Christmas to clear his head, but the sleigh and the reindeer return but
Nick doesn’t.
Everyone at the Pole
is angry with Noelle when Nick disappears, so she has to go on a funny and
heartfelt journey to Phoenix to find him accompanied by Elf Polly (Shirley MacLaine).
She employs the
services of Private Detective Jake Hapman (Kingsley Ben-Adir) and finds Nick
teaching at a Yoga Studio, and he makes it perfectly clear he is not cut out to
be Santa and will not be returning.
However, on her
journey it becomes quite apparent that her Fathers gifts have passed to her and
not her brother and she is destined to take over the family business
Noelle is a lovely
Christmas movie and was a joy to watch.
Dr. Sharon Hayes (Nikki
Deloach) is a New York City based neuroscientist heading back to her small hometown
of Pine Springs to spend Christmas with her pregnant cousin Lucy (Heidi Fielek)
and Lucy's husband Roland (Zach Smadu), and it’s the first time back since the
funeral of the woman who raised her, her Gramma Vera, the previous January.
After meeting with Vera's
estate lawyer, and next-door neighbour Sam Taylor (Michael Rady), she finds out
that she has inherited the house where Sharon grew up.
But the inheritance is
conditional upon her completing a list of twelve family Christmas traditions,
and they must be accomplished before she makes the decision on whether to move
back into the house for good, which would not fit her life plan, or to sell it.
Her first thought is to
sell but spending time with widower Sam Taylor and his adorable little girl
Mikayla (Michaela Russell) and the search for a beloved family heirloom “Two
Turtle Doves” she comes to realize that Christmas miracles really can happen.
While taking a
shortcut through the woods, two thirteen-year-old girls, Allie Thompson (Hallee
Hirsh) and Sam Kwan (Brenda Song) come upon an unfamiliar shack in the woods
occupied by a grumpy old man.
After watching him
discard something in the trash they pick it up and run off, when they get it home
and examine it, they realise it’s a weather machine.
After figuring out the
controls Allie comes up with the idea of making it snow so they can get a snow
day, however once it starts, they can’t get it to stop and cause the first
white Christmas Los Angeles has ever seen and are ruining Christmas.
It turns out that the
weather machine belongs to Santa Claus (John B. Lowe) who was the old
man in the woods and Mrs. Claus (Susan Ruttan) and she sends two elves,
Crumpet (John Salley) and Sparky (Bill Fagerbakke) to help him track down the
girls and to deal with a weather man named Edwin Hadley (Peter Scolari).
When Santa (Jefferson
Mappin) is knocked out at the Wrigley’s home, mischievous 14-year-old Danny (Josh
Zuckerman) and his shady Uncle Nick (Bryan Cranston) take Santa's new high-tech
sleigh and almost ruin Christmas.
Although Danny’s intention
is to deliver the presents in Santa’s place, his Uncle has other ideas and
tricks his nephew into helping him.
Meanwhile Santa is
aided by Danny’s younger siblings Kaitlin (Brenda Grate) and Peter (Rhys Williams)
in locating the sleigh and when Danny realises that Uncle Nick is taking from
houses when he's supposed to be leaving presents, he returns home, but that isn’t
the end of the story, as they still have to face the bad guys and save
Christmas.
It's a stressful
Christmas season in Boston for Mia (Jessica Lowndes), talented department store
window designer, whose job is dependent upon winning an upcoming competition,
so when her sister Sara (Justine Cotsonas) asks her to help with the decorations
for the annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve Dance she jumps at the chance
to escape to her Connecticut hometown for the weekend, but she gets more than
she bargained for on the trip.
Soon after arriving
she meets Sara’s boss Adam (B.J. Britt), whose grandparents founded the beloved
festival 60 years ago, who has bad news about the venue which puts the festival
in doubt, as the handsome, traditionalist Adam is all out of ideas.
Mia immediately feels
inspired and is confident she can save the festival even though he resists any
and all innovation, but she makes allowances as he's cute and using her charm
she wins him over, in more ways than one.
Carole's Christmas is
a “be careful what you wish for” Christmas tale about an overworked
businesswoman and mother, Carole Jordan (Kimberly Elise) who is struggling
financially at work and at home.
Her husband Marcus
(Anthony Montgomery) is struggling to get his landscaping business off the
ground and Carole isn’t able to devote enough time to their children Maggie
(Bianca Buck) and Travis (Cayden K. Williams).
One day she confides
to Tiffany (Morgan Alexandria) that she regretted turning down a job offer
straight out of college and thought her life would have been so much better had
she taken it and when her driver Iris (Jackée Harry) asked her if she wished
things could be different, she off-handedly replied yes.
The next morning when
she woke up, she was living in a luxury house and had an executive position and
so did her husband,
At first, she was
thrilled with the house and the job, but the children were like strangers to
her, so it isn’t long before she begs angel in waiting, Iris, for her old life
back.
