Chandler Massey

Katherine Barrell

Evan Roderick

Keith MacKechnie

Emma experiences two different Christmases: one where she stays in town and celebrates with a new crush, and one where she returns home to her family and Drew. She will finally discover what will really make her happy in life and in love.

A Tale of Two Christmases

A Tale of Two Christmases (2022)

Kerry Devine of small town Twelve Oaks, CO, is struggling financially and emotionally. Owning and operating a clothing boutique, Retrofit Exchange, she is close to needing to close pending a miracle due to being far behind in rent, she unable to pay due to little business. She once dreamed of being a fashion designer, but a setback in her freshman year at design college after which she dropped out has resulted in her doubting her design capabilities, despite still designing on the side, those dresses which she sells in the boutique. Things change when a movie shoot comes to town for "My Favorite Santa" starring Brad Baxter, known as the King of Christmas for starring in a number of Christmas-themed romantic comedies. While Kerry's Christmas and celebrity obsessed mother Nancy Devine is in love with Brad the movie star, Kerry doesn't even know who he is in not being like her mother. Kerry and Brad get a chance to get to know each other when producer Caleb Turner, having trouble finding a costumer for the movie, first buys out Kerry's store for possible costumes - that miracle which she needed to pay rent - and then second hires her to be the costume designer despite her lack of experience in this area. While Kerry and the rest of the cast and crew can only watch with some comic sadness the troubles between Caleb and the movie's writer/director Jill Turner, his ex-wife, they only reuniting for this out out of professional need, that comic sadness in everyone being to see that there are still feelings between the two, Kerry and Brad not only start to fall for each other in each discovering the real person behind the movie façade, but each brings out in the other the want to take chances in life that they were not willing to do before meeting. Those chances may be their downfall in their professional and personal lives not meshing. What happens with this collective is told in flashbacks one year down the road at a question and answer session for a special pre-premiere screening of "My Favorite Santa" in Los Angeles.—Huggo

Lights, Camera, Christmas!

Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2022)

Annie Cooper has big shoes to fill when she takes over as CEO of her late grandmother's small-town cookie company and is doing her best to help their struggling business get back on track. That task gets more daunting when her grandmother's secret recipe is stolen during the Christmas party. As Annie tries to crack the case and uncover the culprit she works with Sam, the owner of a local bakery, to recreate the recipe in the hope of saving the company and her job. As Annie and Sam bake batch after batch in pursuit of the perfect one, they begin to learn that their lives go together like milk and cookies.—Hallmark

A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe

A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (2022)

When her adolescent granddaughter Lucy shows some apprehension in her final audition for a featured role in the Nutcracker, Maggie Bingham decides it's time to tell Lucy the complete story of what happened to her the Christmas season of 1958. From a high society Philadelphia background, Maggie, the star pupil in her dance class, had been obsessed with the Radio City Rockettes when she first saw them perform on television the year before. As a lark, she decides to audition for the Rockettes in their Philadelphia tryouts knowing that she will never get one of the spots and if she does that she will never be able to accept in her life being mapped out for her by her strict parents, the future including being engaged in an arrangement to Maxwell from an equally wealthy Philadelphia family. So when she is offered one of the three open spots on the Rockettes for their shows this Christmas season, Maggie concocts a lie to be able to go to New York for November and December to the end of the Christmas shows, the lie, with the help of her high society friend Kitty in New York, centered on preparing for the wedding. After this season, she will just go back to Philadelphia to resume her life with her parents and Maxwell none the wiser. But in New York, she experiences some things for the first time in her life, including a sense of independence away from her parents - she expecting a similarly controlled life with Maxwell - and a sense of camaraderie with a group of women, her fellow Rockettes, especially her two fellow newbies, Sofia and Janet, and their freshman "housemother" Alice, who, after ten years with the troupe, is nearing the end of her professional dancing life, they all needing that support to survive emotionally. But arguably most importantly, Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater, he in the final six months of his Navy duty as a photographer before his parents expect him to take over the family business of an independent market. Like Maggie, John is hiding from his parents what he truly wants for his life, namely to be a photographer, first by applying to the Fine Arts program at NYU. But both Maggie and John realize that their meeting is a matter of bad timing in there being no future for them despite their feelings for each other.—Huggo

A Holiday Spectacular

A Holiday Spectacular (2022)

Emily's manipulative boyfriend steals her apartment out from under her, only telling her when she breaks up with him & tries to kick him out. She returns home for the holidays intending to relax and get her bearings from this devastating blow, but as she pulls up her parents abandon her to go house hunting in Florida. What's worse, they left her responsible for meeting all the holiday decorating HOA requirements--with no warning! The current HOA president starts harassing her daily about the lack of decorations and manipulates her into taking over a time-consuming parade plan. It's also hinted that her parents had previously decorated but took the decorations down just to screw her over. Instead of abandoning the community of horrible humans, she stays to try and make the best of it. In the end, in true Hallmark movie fashion, she falls for the HOA jerk because she apparently can't help but fall for manipulative jerks that remind her of her parents.—sheepguy42

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A Tale of Two Christmases

2022

Comedy/ Drama/ Romance

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Duration: 84 min

IMDB Rating: 5.7

Language: en

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Plot Summary

Emma experiences two different Christmases: one where she stays in town and celebrates with a new crush, and one where she returns home to her family and Drew. She will finally discover what will really make her happy in life and in love.

Top Cast

Chandler Massey as -Drew

Katherine Barrell as -Emma

Evan Roderick as -Max

Keith MacKechnie as -John Peterson

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