Rescuing Christmas
2023
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Rescuing Christmas
2023
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
In a world where Santa is real and wants to drum up some holiday spirit, two of Santa’s elves, Chuck and Debbie, devise a plan to grant one human on Earth three wishes to kickstart the holidays. Unfortunately, that human is Erin, who has lost all affection for the season. Even a blind date set up by her sister, with the affable and charming Sam, won’t change her mind about Christmas. But when she makes the mistake of wishing Christmas would “just disappear,” Erin wakes up to a world where the holiday never existed! Horrified, she realizes that she’s taken away everyone’s joy, so she enlists Sam to help her reinvent the festivities from scratch. In the process, Erin learns just how much this holiday and its traditions have meant to everyone around her - and how much Sam has come to mean to her.
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Many amusing moments
Hallmark with an idea
Christmas is having a hard time. Belief in Santa is crashing. Debbie (Bailey Stender) and Chuck (Patrick Thomas O'Brien) are elves with an idea. Grant three wishes to one person chosen at random. Santa picks one grumpy Erin Smithson (Rachael Leigh Cook). She's a freelance photographer with no kids. She is set up on a blind date with Sam (Sam Page). In frustration, her last wish is for Christmas to disappear.
Hallmark tries to do something a little more imaginative than the usual big city gal going to a small town to hook up with the local hunk. I like the two elves. Rachael Leigh Cook is good at playing both the grump and being hopeful. This is pretty good especially for Hallmark. I was actually paying attention with this one.