Chasing Christmas (2005) (TV)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Ron Oliver

Writer:

Todd Berger (writer)

Release Date:

4 December 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

In a world where the holidays are run by the efficient Bureau of Yuletide Affairs, a bitter and burned-out Ghost of Christmas Past decides to go AWOL while on a "mission" and leave his "target" stranded in 1965. |

Plot Keywords:

Christmas

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Tom Arnold	...	Jack Cameron
Andrea Roth	...	Present
Leslie Jordan	...	Past
Brittney Wilson	...	Suzanne Cameron
Robert Clarke	...	Trevor
Sarah-Jane Redmond	...	Alison
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Benjamin Ayres	...	Mike (as Ben Ayres)
Laurie Brunetti	...	Cigar salesman
Keith Dallas	...	Bob
Casey Dubois	...	Kid #2
Ryann Graye	...	Beauty in bar
Alexis Llewellyn	...	Kid #1
Zak Ludwig	...	Young Scrooge
Aleks Paunovic	...	Vincent
Meshach Peters	...	Scrooge
Jed Rees	...	Future
Marco Soriano	...	Concierge
Juan Carlos Velis	...	The Bellboy
Nelson Wong	...	Drug Store Clerk

Also Known As:

The Spiritual Guilt Trip (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for some language, sensuality, thematic elements, and violence.

Runtime:

USA:120 min (with commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:PG | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Insight Film Studios

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The hotel setting for 1978 has door locks, lighting, and building materials that did not exist in 1978. Look for the key card locks on the doors.

Movie Connections:

Features The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) (TV)

A right old bag of crap

A dismal attempt to replay 'A Christmas Carol' with technological trappings and homages to 'Back To The Future'. After making fun of Dickens and his wonderful story, and introducing such cack-handed ideas as Candy Cane Chronometers, the movie has the Ghost Of Christmas Past deciding that he's had enough of showing people the error of their ways and would rather stay in 1965. So the Ghost Of Christmas Present (Andrea Roth, who looks good in a hot tub) travels back to put the timeline right. Tob Arnold seebs to habe a bad cold in the Scrooge role, but he does well considering the surrounding debacle. His reasons for disliking Christmas, and the scenes in which he revisits them, could have made for a poignant film in the right hands. Shame 'Chasing Christmas' isn't touching, funny, clever, or anything its makers think it is. It doesn't help that they present 'A Christmas Carol' as a fictional story that the characters in the movie are well aware of. And can I be geeky for a moment? Ta. 'The Star Wars Holiday Special' aired in November, not on Christmas Eve.