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The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgans love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is right under her nose. Stars Henry Winkler, Brooke Burns, and Warren Christie.
Jennifer Cullen, a corporate analyst in Chicago, is good at her job in being logical and organized,having a list for everything. Also a single mother of adolescent Brian, she is conversely not a good judge of men as witnessed by her ex-husband, who walked out on them for good shortly after Brian was born. She does not "do" Christmas well, with some last minute changes to plan constantly changing her Christmas to-do list. Their overly-fussy neighbor Rita, who has her own strict list of what people on their block "must" do for Christmas, is constantly on her case about decorating the house, which means she must find someone to hang her mandated all-white Christmas lights sooner than later. She learns late in the season that all Brian wants is the hottest toy this season which is virtually impossible to get, at least by Christmas. Days before Christmas she also learns that her mother is no longer coming for the holidays, instead opting for a sun-and-sand vacation. This means that Jennifer, not handy in the kitchen, must prepare Christmas dinner, including the turkey. She had wanted to impress her jeweler boyfriend Richard Winsleys parents, and Christmas dinner would be the first time the two families would be meeting. Now only Jennifers maternal uncle, recent widower and newly-retired Brooklyn police officer Ralph Kendall, as her family representative. Uncle Ralph scares Richard but under the rough-around-the-edges exterior hes actually a teddy bear, and he sees Richard as the typical stuffed shirt. Ralph eventually makes his way from Chicago to Brooklyn and has with him Morgan Derby, a renaissance man whom he helped out of a jam at JFK, was on the same New-York-to-Chicago flight, and is trying to make his way to Denver, which is currently snowed-in. Having traveled the world doing one odd job after another in his wanderlust, he finally came to the decision to settle down when he turned 30 a few weeks before; his rough plan is to open a restaurant with an old girlfriend. Ralph is able to convince a reluctant Jennifer to take Morgan in until he can catch a flight to Denver. Behind the scenes, Ralph, believing that Morgan is a better match for Jennifer than Richard, takes steps to try to keep Morgan in Chicago; this unnerves Ricahrd, who doesnt want another bachelor vying for Jennifers affections at Christmas dinner, especially in front of his parents.
Brooke Burns
Jennifer Cullen
Henry Winkler
Uncle Ralph Kendall
Warren Christie
Morgan Derby
Connor Christopher Levins
Brian Cullen
Woody Jeffreys
Richard Windom
Serge Houde
Stephen Windom
Rebecca Toolan
Winnie Windom
Michael Roberds
Chet Wojorski
Rukiya Bernard
Denise
Jennifer Clement
Rita
Vanesa Tomasino
Wanda
Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle
Mugger
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Supervisor
Sonya Anand
Attendant
Sian Sladen
Airline Employee
Lynn Colliar
Weather Lady
Teach Grant
Lanny
Joe Costa
Benny the Bartender
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