After he is fired by his greedy boss Mr Flaxman (Alan Cumming) mild-mannered art-buyer Bernard Bottle (Paapa Essiedu) is dumped by his wife Julie (Denée Benton) after he misses their daughter Eve’s (Jordyn McIntosh) birthday.
He
had bought an antique box for Eve and when he begins to clean the dust of the
box, he discovers a Genie, Flora (Melissa McCarthy)
inside.
Bernard
introduces her to the modern world and Flora grants him unlimited wishes.
After he is fired by his greedy boss Mr Flaxman (Alan Cumming) mild-mannered art-buyer Bernard Bottle (Paapa Essiedu) is dumped by his wife Julie (Denée Benton) after he misses their daughter Eve’s (Jordyn McIntosh) birthday.
He
had bought an antique box for Eve and when he begins to clean the dust of the
box, he discovers a Genie, Flora (Melissa McCarthy)
inside.
Bernard
introduces her to the modern world and Flora grants him unlimited wishes.
Successful nightclub manager and local celebrity Anthony “Tony” Towers (Michael Sheen) is engaged to his girlfriend Sue Taylor (Nathalie Emmanuel) and on Christmas Eve 1985 they are travelling from London to Nottingham for a family reunion with his brother Roger (Cary Elwes).
However
when he steps into the next carriage towards the
engine, he finds himself in 1995 and finds
that in the future he has lost everything.
So
it seems that he is transported 10 years forwards or backwards depending on the
direction he moves in.
It
also becomes clear that he can also change the past or the future of anyone
aboard the train.
But
will he make things better or worse?
Successful nightclub manager and local celebrity Anthony “Tony” Towers (Michael Sheen) is engaged to his girlfriend Sue Taylor (Nathalie Emmanuel) and on Christmas Eve 1985 they are travelling from London to Nottingham for a family reunion with his brother Roger (Cary Elwes).
However
when he steps into the next carriage towards the
engine, he finds himself in 1995 and finds
that in the future he has lost everything.
So
it seems that he is transported 10 years forwards or backwards depending on the
direction he moves in.
It
also becomes clear that he can also change the past or the future of anyone
aboard the train.
But
will he make things better or worse?
During the Seaside Noel celebrations Christina Antonioni (Sarah Power) finds out about a developer Oscar Bittlesman (Bruce Dawson) planning to tear down the historic wharf that’s home to her toy store in Nantucket.
In
the week before Christmas she catches a girl, Wink
Bittlesman
(Payton Lepinski), stealing a toy mermaid while her
commercial realtor father Andy Bittlesman (Trevor Donovan)
is distracted on the phone.
As
a result of her acting out Andy agrees to let Wink help out at the toy store to
make up for the shoplifting and he and Christina connected, however that may
not be enough once she finds out that it’s his father behind the redevelopment.
A romantic comedy about a New York socialite Emmy (Poppy Montgomery) who fakes her identity in order to get her book published and all is going well until her publisher Ellison London (Jeanette Cronin) and her son Jack London (Darren McMullen) want to visit their “Australian” author in her own home.
So
Emmy is forced to rush back to Australia to her dead mother's farm and start
living her fake life.
But
there is a surprise ending that even she couldn’t have written.
In the town of Normal, Alaska, the Miller family are preparing for Christmas, and all seems normal, less snow than they would have expected but the town is decorated for the season.
John
Miller (David Cubitt) is collecting the presents that his helicopter pilot wife
Beth (Laura Harris) needs to deliver to the outlying settlements and their
children Jennifer and Rudy (Magda Apanowicz and Dylan Matzke) are ready to
enjoy the holidays.
Then
a package, wrapped like a Christmas gift, appears on their doorstep from an
unknown sender, which contains a snow globe.
So
they give the globe to Rudy but it soon turns out to be a mystical object which
when shaken inflicts natural disaster on the town, so they have to figure out
how to destroy the snow globe before it destroys the town.
