Christmas Crash (2009)

A husband, wife and their two daughters take a Christmas break at a lodge in the woods. There's evident tension between the couple... See full synopsis »

Director:

Terry Ingram

Writers:

Jack Nasser, Joseph Nasser,

Stars:

Michael Madsen, Alexandra Paul, Elyse Levesque

Cast

Cast overview:
Michael Madsen	...	Joseph Johnson
Alexandra Paul	...	Christine Johnson
Elyse Levesque	...	Teresa Johnson
Melanie Papalia	...	Amanda Johnson
Winston Rekert	...	Nick Stanley
Ron Lea	...	Frank Martin
Brendan Penny	...	Matt
Forbes Angus	...	Brendan Armstrong
Chris Shields	...	Jim Adams
Wesley Salter	...	Tavern Bartender
Kurt Max Runte	...	State Trooper
Jeanettea Antonio	...	State Trooper
Michael Robinson	...	Rescue One Officer
Val Cole	...	TV Reporter
Tosca Baggoo	...	Doctor

Storyline

A husband, wife and their two daughters take a Christmas break at a lodge in the woods. There's evident tension between the couple... See full synopsis »

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Plot Keywords:

dinner party | float plane | missing mother | father daughter relationship | sister sister relationship | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

2009 (Canada)

Also Known As:

L'aventure de Noël

Box Office

Budget:

CAD 1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

NGN Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color (HD)

Did You Know?

Goofs

The husband and wife swim from the lake, but when the husband sits up for wife to bandage his leg, the back of his pants are dry.

User Reviews

Trying to do too much

and doing none of it well.

Lovely scenery. The wilderness lake and cloud-shrouded mountaintops are extremely familiar to me as a western Canadian.

The plot is a bit garbled, what with the marital tension and the teenaged sister with the smarmy boyfriend who has ties to her father's company, which is under threat of a hostile takeover, and boyfriend's even more sinister boss who may or may not have orchestrated more than a financial slapdown. Plus the nice old family friend who may be too good to be true.

Is it primarily a financial movie, a wilderness survival story, a marital post-mortem, a cautionary tale for teenage girls? A tourist advertisement for the area where it was filmed?

The acting - anybody's acting - doesn't quite rise to the level of entirely inhabiting the character. Even the wolves aren't acting like real wolves. Sigh.