Complete credited cast: | |||
Erin Cahill | ... | Sydney Larkin | |
Kevin McGarry | ... | Colin Hauer | |
Jaden Oehr | ... | Oliver Larkin | |
Hamza Fouad | ... | Andy Cooper | |
Patrick Duffy | ... | Howard | |
Jaclyn Smith | ... | Lauren Larkin | |
Catherine Lough Haggquist | ... | Perry (as Catherine Lough-Haggquist) | |
Paralee Cook | ... | Beth | |
Ronald Patrick Thompson | ... | Man #1 | |
Ron Kologie | ... | Mall Security Guard | |
Pete Graham | ... | Busker (as Peter Graham-Gaudreau) | |
Jasmine Lukuku | ... | Anna | |
Heather-Claire Nortey | ... | Heather | |
Sherilyn Allen | ... | Woman #2 |
As a single mother to eight year old Oliver, Sydney Larkin, a Chicago-based freelance journalist, is trying to be supermom, although she does have help on the personal side by her mother, Lauren Larkin, and the professional side by having an exclusive association with BCN-TV News, which Sydney would like to be more permanent. Lauren's strength as a reporter is an ability to spot the unusual or unique in any story. In this, the Christmas season, Sydney's association with the station is in jeopardy when she is in competition for the one permanent open job with other freelancers, most specifically her rival Andy Cooper, who has a more cutthroat attitude than her, and as BCN's news editor, Perry, questions Sydney's story choices in Sydney preferring those humanistic stories as opposed to hard hitting news, which generally garner bigger ratings. Perry assigns all the freelancers what appears to be the biggest story of this Christmas - the reporter getting the story first who will probably ... Written by Huggo
I loved the movie and theme. It's a movie I will watch more than once. However, the child actor was the worst. I'm thinking he was related to Lifetime staff.