Ethan and Evelyn Anderson (Robert Awoyemi and Oxa Hazel) host the family for Christmas.
Daughters Grace and Diane (Emma Bakare and (Vanessa
Cruickshank), son James (David S James) and his girlfriend Maya (Assia Jalloh).
However, struggles with grief, faith, and healing
lead to frank exchanges and recriminations which eventually clear the air
culminating in a peaceful and forgiving Christmas morning.
Toby (Matthew Harbour) is a sensitive young boy whose father John (Kevin Jubinville) who buried himself in his work when his mom
(Jane
Seymour) died and he is deeply saddened when he is dumped with his stern
Grandmother Ellen (Una Kay) for several weeks including Christmas.
Toby
finds comfort only when he finds the attic and then his cuddly velveteen rabbit
(Chandler Wakefield), and the Swan (Ellen Burstyn) and the Skin Horse (Tom
Skerritt) and from his father and grandmothers childhoods come to life in his
mind.
While
he plays with them crucial emotions are stirred in the family leading to a
happier future.
Toby (Matthew Harbour) is a sensitive young boy whose father John (Kevin Jubinville) who buried himself in his work when his mom
(Jane
Seymour) died and he is deeply saddened when he is dumped with his stern
Grandmother Ellen (Una Kay) for several weeks including Christmas.
Toby
finds comfort only when he finds the attic and then his cuddly velveteen rabbit
(Chandler Wakefield), and the Swan (Ellen Burstyn) and the Skin Horse (Tom
Skerritt) and from his father and grandmothers childhoods come to life in his
mind.
While
he plays with them crucial emotions are stirred in the family leading to a
happier future.
Just before Christmas Carley Kincaid (Katie
Findlay) misses out on a promotion and the CEO Silas Redmond (Martin Donovan)
appoints his son Wyatt (Evan Roderick) as her boss.
Encouraged by her best friend Jamie (Kelcey Mawema), who is moving to
Italy) she makes a list of New Year's resolutions to change her life.
Almost
a year later, she hasn’t ticked a single thing off the list, and she's still
working at the same job, and she panics when Jamie tells her she’s coming home
for Christmas so she is galvanized into action, top of the list is quitting her
job, so she takes the blame for something Wyatt did and is sacked.
Because of his attitude Silas threatens to cut
Wyatt off unless he changes his ways.
So,
Carly and Wyatt form an alliance, he helps her fulfil her resolutions and she
helps get his life together.
But
while helping each other will they find love for the New Year?
There have been a few versions of Miracle on 34th
Street and are well worth watching, though some more than others.
It’s the story of a child, Susan Walker (Suzanne Davidson) who has been brought up by her mother Karen (Jane Alexander) not to believe in Santa Claus however she unknowingly employs the real
Kris Kringle (Sebastian
Cabot) to be Santa Claus at Macy’s department store and
the more time Susan spends with Kris the more she believes.
However, Kris is arrested and has to go to trial where Bill Schaffner (David Hartman) has to prove he is the real Santa and is not insane.
There have been a few versions of Miracle on 34th
Street and are well worth watching, though some more than others.
It’s the story of a child, Susan Walker (Susan Gordon) who has been brought up by her mother Doris (Mary Healy) not to believe in Santa Claus however she unknowingly employs the real
Kris Kringle (Ed
Wynn) to be Santa Claus at Macy’s department store and
the more time Susan spends with Kris the more she believes.
However, Kris is arrested and has to go to trial
where Fred Gaily (Peter
Lind Hayes) has to prove he is the real Santa and is not
insane.
It’s
the last day before Christmas break and the students of Eastbrook High are
sitting their final exams before the holidays but midway through them a major snowstorm
hits and the school is forced to close.
Six
students, Mary Jake Harper, Grayson Thompson, Brant Journigan, Anthony Goodwin,
Camile Sanders and Lynn Bolton (Hollie Bahar, Vincent Seidle, Aaron Michael
Johnson, Ashley Murray, Katie McCaffrey and Elizabeth Potthast) who are unable
to arrange transportation before the storm worsens are forced to remain in the
school.
Although
they were known to each other, they were not “friends” but were confined in the
library with teacher Cynthia Burgess (Karen Boles) but as the storm fails to
abate and the doors are locked.
In
their confinement old wounds are opened and new friendships are created, as
secrets are revealed about what has shaped their lives.
