Christmas at Dollywood (2019)

A New York City event planner travels home to Tennessee for the holidays and ends up working on the thirtieth anniversary Christmas event at Dollywood alongside the theme park's Director of Operations.

Director:

Michael Robison

Writer:

Nina Weinman

Stars:

Danica McKellar, Niall Matter, Zoë Noelle Baker

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Danica McKellar	...	Rachel
Niall Matter	...	Luke
Zoë Noelle Baker	...	Ava
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe	...	Maggie (as Crystal Lowe)
Jason Cermak	...	Eric
Sarah Strange	...	Gail
Christine Cattell	...	Ginger
Garwin Sanford	...	Lyle
Dolly Parton	...	Dolly Parton
Pauline Egan	...	Alexis
Barry W. Levy	...	Carl (as Barry Levy)
Chris Shields	...	Mark Haber
Andrew Moxham	...	Vince Blackwell
Ramon Terrell	...	Chef

Storyline

Although she loves her job as an event planner for successful Gail Lane in New York City, the company which Gail tells her directly will someday be hers in being the best of her staff, Rachel Davis, if being true to herself, would admit the job was a fallback in none of her children's books being accepted for publication. With an event canceled at the last minute, Gail gives Rachel an unexpected and unusual break over the Christmas holidays, allowing Rachel and her adolescent daughter Ava to return "home" to spend Christmas with Rachel's parents and sister Maggie in Pigeon Hole, Tennessee, Rachel and Maggie who grew up in the proverbial shadow of Dollywood where Maggie now works in administration. It is Maggie that arranges for Rachel, on behalf of Gail's company, to interview to handle the thirtieth anniversary Christmas event at Dollywood, it arguably the biggest event Rachel would have worked on if awarded it in having a national scope. It is when Rachel arrives at Dollywood that ...

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Plot Keywords:

christmas | christmas romance | new york city new york | event planner | general manager | 

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Genres:

Drama | Family | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-G

Did You Know?

Trivia

Danica McKellar has a few of her actual published kids book titles on display around the table at the beginning of the movie. i.e. Goodnight Numbers.

User Reviews

I loved it!!

Again you must remember these movies are mostly filmed well before Christmas so that's why they couldn't film all at once. I did pick up on Danica's sister's hair - most scenes her hair was brown and the next scene it was jet black which meant she probably had other projects in between filming this picture. I actually thought the main leads had great chemistry, I really like the male lead (hunk)!! I thought it was a really good movie although it would've been nice for Dolly to perform a song or two but it was great seeing her.... she still looks amazing. Well done to cast and crew!

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 December 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

Christmas at Dollywood

Company Credits

Production Co:

Emerald Bay Entertainment, Hallmark Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD