Briana Evigan

Greg Evigan

Paul Campbell

Beverley Elliott

Once Upon A Holiday is an engrossing TV movie that centers around a royal princess who is tired of her diamond-studded privileged life and the royal responsibilities that come with being a princess. Desiring to see how regular people live, she finally gets the courage to leave it all behind by escaping one day, which puts her in the path of a wonderful young man and good Samaritan who sweeps her off of her feet.—Chrissy Campman

Once Upon a Holiday

Once Upon a Holiday (2015)

Josie Mayfield, a no-nonsense businesswoman working at her father's prosperous cookware company, thinks her boyfriend Richard is the perfect man - handsome, successful and driven. The problem is that Josie's parents, Joseph and Claire, do not agree. When Josie meets up with Maxwell, an underachieving, old high school flame (who still has a crush on Josie), Richard dreams up a plan to make himself look good to Josie's parents: Maxwell will be Josie's date at Joseph and Claire's upcoming anniversary party. When Joseph and Claire see Josie with a "loser," they'll give anything to have Richard back in the picture. At least, that's the plan. Over the anniversary party weekend, Maxwell stays with Josie as a guest in the Mayfield home, horrifying Joseph and Claire with his unsophisticated ways. Though things are rough and rocky at first, Maxwell soon begins to win over Joseph and Clair and they start to appreciate his carefree and spontaneous lifestyle. Maxwell's presence even helps Josie's insecure younger sister Mindy finally stand up for herself and inspires Josie's grandfather (Conway) to pleasantly shock everyone by revealing a big secret. As Maxwell's visit loosens up the previously stiff and uptight Mayfield family, Josie starts to fall for him and realizes she hasn't been living her life for herself. When Richard shows up at the house, Josie must decide which direction her life - romantic and otherwise - is going to take.—The Hallmark Channel

Surprised by Love

Surprised by Love (2015)

Jamie (Hynes) hasn't told his family that he and his now ex-girlfriend Emily (Lenz) broke up. After an inopportune run-in with Emily at the train station in his hometown, Jamie convinces her to pretend they're still a couple to avoid ruining Christmas for his family. Jamie and Emily engage in a week-long ruse of engaging in his family's holiday activities together. While they're stuck in his family's home together, the pair discovers their relationship might still have some potential, resulting in a very unexpected Christmas.

An Unexpected Christmas

An Unexpected Christmas (2021)

William Holt is the heir apparent to the top job at Chicago-based Holt Enterprises upon his father Jim Holt's imminent retirement. Will has coasted through life on his charm with others often having to clean up his messes, that task generally relegated to his unofficial assistant, Lyle, unofficial as he is a Holt employee with no official title. Worried about leaving the company in Will's hands, Jim has posted a position for a lawyer to shadow Will in handling any of those messes of a legal nature. It is in this capacity that Will meets lawyer Annie Park, who specializes in family law. While Will believed Annie came to the Holt building for the job, she really came to have it out with him as Holt Enterprises, in their latest such redevelopment, is tearing down the building where her adoptive parents, Gene and Pat Park, have long had their diner, the Starlight, the eviction effective for the new year in a few weeks. Not wanting a lawyer to shadow him, Will strikes a deal with Annie: she pretend to be his lawyer for a week until Christmas just as a body to show Jim while Will goes on with his regular business, in return for Will stopping the building demolition and associated evictions. It is in that lawyer role for Will that Annie unexpectedly gets roped into organizing a high end sit down dinner Christmas fundraiser to get Will out of one of those legal messes, something that she has no experience in doing. Also roped into helping Annie with the fundraiser is Will. In spending time together, Annie and Will see a different side of the other as they start to fall for each other. That may all change if Will is unable to fulfill his end of their original agreement, something that would take Will to convince Jim.—Huggo

Christmas by Starlight

Christmas by Starlight (2020)

Becca Foster is always the bridesmaid - her cousin Lucie's wedding the third time this year and the tenth time in her life - and never the bride, that latter issue which is fine with her in knowing it will eventually happen and happen organically as her last serious relationship showed her that it cannot be forced. That's also why, while she appreciates the sentiment, she doesn't like the pressure in being set up by Lucie with her fiancé Craig's best man, Aidan, the two who will have to spend much time together in their respective wedding roles. Due to Lucie and Craig's schedule, the planning of the wedding has to happen all within the span of five months, which is bad timing for Becca if only because the wedding date is about the time she is scheduled to take over the family's insurance business, which has seemed like her destiny ever since she was a child. Also in the vein of things happening organically, Becca has placed her artistic bent solely in the realm of a hobby, most specifically her jewelry making - she making such for herself and as gifts for her excited brides - as if it was meant to be her professional path, it would have showed itself in some way. That belief places her at odds with Kyle Taylor, a documentary filmmaker she initially met as the videographer at wedding number nine, he also taking on that role for Lucie and Craig's wedding. He believes that love and romance takes work, and that an initial spark may not lead to a happily ever after. Regardless, they become friends in encouraging the other in their passion of the jewelry making and documentary filmmaking as what the other should focus on in their professional life. In the process, romantic feelings between the two sneak up on them. A sustained romantic relationship is threatened by bumps in their professional aspirations.—Huggo

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Once Upon a Holiday

2015

Action/ Comedy/ Drama/ Romance

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Duration: 84 min

IMDB Rating: 6.2

Language: en

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Briana Evigan as -Katie

Greg Evigan as -George Holt

Paul Campbell as -Jack Langdon

Beverley Elliott as -Dixie

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