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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Melissa Joan Hart | ... | Gertrude 'Trudie' Chandler | |
| Mario Lopez | ... | David Martin | |
| Timothy Bottoms | ... | Dad Chandler (as Tim Bottoms) | |
| Markie Post | ... | Mom Chandler | |
| June Lockhart | ... | Grandma | |
| Kyle Howard | ... | Jake Chandler | |
| Vanessa Evigan | ... | Katie Chandler | |
| Gabrielle Miller | ... | Jessica | |
| Layla Alizada | ... | Lucy | |
| Cedric De Souza | ... | Taj | |
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Marion Eisman | ... | Mrs. Barber |
| Karen Hines | ... | Maria | |
| Maureen Jones | ... | Barbara | |
| Marty Hanenberg | ... | Mr. Portnoy | |
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Matt Embry | ... | Slick Guy |
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Would-be painter Gertrude 'Trudie' Chandler loses her waitress job and boyfriend Nick on Christmas Eve - her only shot not to feel like her family's black sheep. To replace the ideal son-in-law with even hunkier dream-prince, David Martin, she kidnaps him at gunpoint to attend the family holidays in a secluded luxurious log cabin. Crazy lies prevent David from convincing the Chandler family he's not Nick and from escaping. After finally passing a rescue call to his spoiled fiancée, David decides to play the perfect catch to make her undoing worse. Before the police rescue him, he and the family realize they adore each other, the others all prove imperfect, and David and Trudy reassess their relationship after getting to know each other. Written by KGF Vissers
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EnglishRelease Date:
9 December 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Trudie: [narrating] I'm not crazy. I'm a long way from crazy. Doing one crazy thing does not make a person crazy, though I have to admit this isn't how I expected to be spending my Christmas... and I'm sure it's not how David Martin planned on spending his.
[to David who is walking down a snow-covered road in the middle of nowhere]
Trudie: So, you've been walking for what, about an hour? And you've gone exactly 1.8 miles and the nearest gas station is 20 miles away - you do the math. Look, why don't...
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Written by Leroy Anderson (uncredited) and Mitchell Parish (uncredited)
Produced by Martin Blasick
Performed by Rebecca Poole
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The movie became the highest viewed broadcast in the history of ABC Family with 6.7 million viewers and adults 18 to 49 (a 2.4 rating). See more »Goofs
The movie is set in a cold, winter climate but the store where they stop to buy gas only has a screen door on the front. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Trudie: [narrating] I'm not crazy. I'm a long way from crazy. Doing one crazy thing does not make a person crazy, though I have to admit this isn't how I expected to be spending my Christmas... and I'm sure it's not how David Martin planned on spending his.
[to David who is walking down a snow-covered road in the middle of nowhere]
Trudie: So, you've been walking for what, about an hour? And you've gone exactly 1.8 miles and the nearest gas station is 20 miles away - you do the math. Look, why don't...
[...]
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Sleigh RideWritten by Leroy Anderson (uncredited) and Mitchell Parish (uncredited)
Produced by Martin Blasick
Performed by Rebecca Poole
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As I write this review, the movie has a rating of 6.5. How this movie got above a 2 is beyond me. To call the acting terrible would be a disgrace to the word 'terrible.' The plot was silly, the dialogue was garbage, and again the acting was repugnant. My wife managed to convince me to watch this movie with her, and admittedly, the movie's "awfulness" overcame me and prevented me from finishing it. I have to assume that family and friends of the cast came on and voted, there is no other logical explanation for the 6.5 rating. Oh yeah, the weak plot was about a girl that kidnapped AC Slater and took him home for Christmas. Apparently AC Slater and Jesse Spanno are no longer together because the movie's would-be villain was his fiancé.