Christmas land - 2015

 Glinda created a holiday village, Christmasland. 25 years later, her granddaughter Jules works in marketing, has just been promoted and plans to stay put in New York. Her attorney boyfriend looks at all the mail she ignored and sees a third and last message that informs her that she inherited ChristmasLand after her grandma’s death. She goes to sign all the papers, with every intention to sell it.

She says so to the local attorney Tucker, to his uncle, to some local ladies, but when a little girl calls her an angel, sure that she’ll reopen the place, she says yes.

She still thinks she’ll sell it after a couple of weeks, to someone who will keep it open.

Her New York boyfriend Mitchell comes to ChristmasLand to see the place and find a buyer.

Tucker and Mitchell went to law school together, but don’t like each other and are rather opposite.

Mitchell found a buyer right away, and this Mason speaks of how much he loves it and offers her 1.7 millions, and Mitchell convinces her and she signs. Then a developer comes to see the place, with plans to sell the lots and change the place in just a few years.

She yells at Mitchell and breaks up with him, then goes to Mason but can only get an offer to buy it back if she can raise 1.3 millions (with the 1.7 he gave her, he’d sell it for 3 millions). 

When Tucker sees the contract, he is appalled, he scolds her for not showing it to him before, and tells her there’s no way out of it, so she has to confess to the townspeople.

Through her contacts, she can raise 850.000$ easily, she only has to sell that company’s coffee in their bars, but still needs 450.000.

Thing is, she has no time because Mr Mason wants the money before Christmas. The town puts together their savings and give it all to her, and she has to insist that she’ll give it back… really???

This is going too far… and also, she has Mason tear up the contract, was it not filed yet? 

I think they should have had a new contract to buy it back.

Anyway, now she says she won’t ever go away, she’ll keep ChristmasLand open forever… and of course she kisses Tucker, saying this is now her home and won’t go back to New York… what a load of… syrupy nonsense.

Jules - Nikki DeLoach

Tucker - Luke MacFarlane

Mitchell - Jason-Shane Scott

Glinda - Maureen McCormick

Mason - Richard Karn

ITA il paese di natale