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Title: Trading Christmas (TV Movie 2011)
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| Tom Cavanagh | ... | Charles Johnson | |
| Faith Ford | ... | Emily Spengler | |
| Gil Bellows | ... | Ray Johnson | |
| Gabrielle Miller | ... | Faith Kerrigan | |
| Emma Lahana | ... | Heather Spengler | |
| Andrew Francis | ... | Jason | |
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Lucy Jeffrey | ... | Sarah |
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Noah Bjorgan | ... | Joey |
| Eric Keenleyside | ... | Security Guard | |
| Michael Coleman | ... | Tony | |
| Travis Turner | ... | Walter | |
| Aren Buchholz | ... | Anthony | |
| Elizabeth Thai | ... | Theresa | |
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Nancy Ebert | ... | Mrs. Spoon |
| Darla Fay | ... | Stell | |
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The Christmas season is approaching. In South Woodbourne, Washington, widowed second grade schoolteacher Emily Spengler loves the Christmas holidays, as do all the townsfolk, and the traditions she had built with her now deceased husband, Frank, who passed away almost three years ago, and her now grown daughter, Heather. As usual, she is expecting Heather to come home for the holidays from Boston, where she is going to school. In Boston, Massachusetts, novelist and English professor Charles Johnson is an unsentimental man, who, like his workaholic brother Ray, owner of his own lucrative business, doesn't celebrate the season. Emily and Charles meet on a house swapping website as they decide to do a one week swap with each other in the lead up to Christmas. Emily wants to go to Boston to be with Heather, who has told her that she isn't planning on coming home for the holidays. And Charles is having problems meeting deadlines for his latest novel and needs somewhere quiet and out of the... Written by Huggo
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Written by Adrienne Pierce and Vincent Jones
Performed by Adrienne Pierce
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The bus terminal shown in the movie is actually the building for the Abbotsford Flying Club. See more »Soundtracks
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26 November 2011 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas See more »Company Credits
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This movie was pretty good. I love Hallmark Christmas movies, and I love Debbie Macomber's books. It is a good holiday movie, and I loved it. However I believe that the portrayal of Faith and Charles was much better than that of Ray and Emily's. It was a very good family movie with a cute and entertaining plot. My sister and mother and I watched it. We all enjoyed it, but we all agreed about the problem with Ray and Emily. Sometimes Hallmark movies seem the same, but this one is different and has a nice plot. This makes you want to settle down with a batch of cookies under a blanket and a mug of hot cocoa while you watch it.