Sara Vancamp ('Eva LaRue') is a busy mom with no Christmas spirit. Christine (Summer Glau), an elf from Santa's village who wonders if there could be more to life than making toys in the ...
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Title: Help for the Holidays (TV Movie 2012)
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Summer Glau | ... | Christine | |
| Eva LaRue | ... | Sara VanCamp (as Eva La Rue) | |
| John Brotherton | ... | Dave Gabriel | |
| Dan Gauthier | ... | Scott VanCamp | |
| Izabela Vidovic | ... | Ally VanCamp | |
| Mason Cook | ... | Will VanCamp | |
| Steve Larkin | ... | Santa | |
| Jessie Lande | ... | Gabby | |
| Valorie Hubbard | ... | Hannah | |
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Jerome V. Green | ... | Hot Dog Man |
| Ben Adams | ... | Doorman | |
| Tom DeTrinis | ... | Village Elf | |
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Michael Dempsey | ... | Village Santa |
| Jesse Bean | ... | Photographer | |
| Loren Lester | ... | Daniel | |
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Sara Vancamp ('Eva LaRue') is a busy mom with no Christmas spirit. Christine (Summer Glau), an elf from Santa's village who wonders if there could be more to life than making toys in the North Pole, comes to the real world to help the VanCamp family, mom Sara (La Rue), dad Scott (Gauthier), and their two kids, re-discover Christmas spirit. Written by chrisdvanne
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Ally VanCamp: Sounds like up north everything's perfect. Why'd you leave?
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(uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont
Sung by Summer Glau, John Brotherton, Izabela Vidovic and Mason Cook
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The TV movie premiered on TV3 in New Zealand on December 7th 2018. See more »Goofs
At the end of the movie, Dave and Ally find out, how Christine's magic book works and use it to find out, where she is. However, just about a minute after that, they realize that Will has disappeared and start searching for him instead of using the book to find out where he is (as they just did before to find Christine). See more »Quotes
Christine: Straight teeth make you look better, no matter who you are. Where I work everybody has straight teeth, even the animals.Ally VanCamp: Sounds like up north everything's perfect. Why'd you leave?
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Jingle Bells(uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont
Sung by Summer Glau, John Brotherton, Izabela Vidovic and Mason Cook
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9 December 2012 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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This is one of the best new Christmas movies I have seen in quite awhile. I think Steve Larkin is the best Santa I have seen since "Miracle on 34th Street"! His laugh is contagious! I felt a more touching side of Santa. The fact that Santa also knew what his Elf wanted helped to bring the whole story up to a more of a loving caring level. Summer Glau (Christine Prancer) is a very cute Elf. I like the whole Elf ear thing, but don't want to include any spoilers here :) Christine Prancer's Elf friend Gabby (played by Jessie Lande) filled the best friend roll well. The story line is well written, and not just a typical Scrooge changing, Christmas, Love Story. The plot brings to light that Christmas is an important family time and that the spirit and enthusiasm for Christmas can be changed by even the smallest of the family members.