Marvista Entertainment, Odyssey Media,
Kristy Swanson, Chris Potter, Carolyn Adair, Lizzie Boys, Colin Lawrence, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Amy Tucker, Nick Purcha, Alexandra Siouras, Kolton Stewart
Charles Montgomery (Chris Potter) is a hardworking husband who built a really fancy mountain cabin for his wife Judith (Kristy Swanson) and his children to spend the holidays. But things are not really going well for the Montgomerys. Judith really just wants a husband who is home and with the family, and he’s a workaholic of the nth degree. They constantly bicker and fight, and the children are not any better. Dad takes away all the cell phones from the rest of the family, but keeps his because he has important work to do. It looks like they’re not going to make it through the week, when in the middle of the night a loud knock on the door occurs. The Tuckers who are one their way to a nearby ski resort have crashed their car and need a place to stay out of the “storm or the century”. The Tuckers know how to love each other and how to spend the holidays as a real family, and their brief visit during the storm guides the Montgomerys to the hope of putting their broken family back together.
This heartwarming and borderline sappy holiday religious story is a perfect fit for UP TV. This is mostly about a troubled marriage where neither wants to end it, but neither one of them know how to fix it. The example of this God sent family helps them through it. But their own children, especially the youngest daughter who still holds out hope that her family can get along. This story does have a bit of a twist in the ending, that is highly expected, and it is a bit sappy. But it’s not extremely preachy. At least not in my experience. With everyone cooped up during the massive storm. We can learn to appreciate the important things as the family learns their lessons. All in all this is a very well cast and strikingly real story that benefits from good writing and a good cast. This is the kind of uplifting story that I’ve missed on TV. I was very touched by this story and I can highly recommend this one.
Here is the home page for this UP TV Holiday movie.
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