Having just moved to the area Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) is the new kid in school and if that wasn't bad enough his mother, Gale (Amy Ryan), is the new assistant Princi . Newly weds Jim (Mark Webber) and Della Alexander (Marla Sokoloff - Christmas in Boston) have just moved into their first home together and with money tight agree that they won't by each other Christmas gifts.

It's been 3 months since her mum died and young Holly (Josie Gallina, Lucy Gallina) has not spoken since despite the best efforts of her uncle Mark (Sean Faris) who has moved to Seattle to look after her.Apart from that one weak plot coincidence to get her into the family, and the general niceness of both men when the chips are down, the only thing that annoyed me was the heroine's little speech at the end, in which she declaimed about a character issue that was not well set up. Through a series of cute travel mishaps on her way to meet his family for the first time, she ends up at the wrong house a couple of days before Christmas.

The original American broadcast on TV, as well as the North American DVD, opens with the credit "Hallmark Channel presents" before moving on to the film's title, stars, etc. While she meets the locals and even starts a new romance, she has to learn to let the life she planned for give way to a love she never could have imagined, and finds this festive small town is hiding one big holiday secret.That warm, happy family, by a credulity-stretching coincidence, welcomes and cherishes her in their extremely - but tastefully - decorated home. Of course they have a very nice son who falls for her, and shares interests and values that aren't on her fiancé's radar. Hailee Anderson (AnnaLynne McCord) doesn't do Christmas so to try and avoid it she is at work as an entertainment reporter for a big New York TV show. The trouble is that he is to co-host a show on local radio presented by the good hearted Sandra Love ( Haylie Duff - Christmas Belle), the complete opposite of him and unsurprisingly they clash as she sees him as trouble and he sees her as uptight and controlling.