Christmas Ransom

Dec 1, 2022

1h 30m

★ 2.0

It's time to save another Christmas...

Overview

When a pair of bumbling crooks hijack the Harrington and Sons toy store, a pair of kids stumble into the heist and are forced to team up with a female security officer to save Christmas.

Genres

Comedy

Action

Adventure

Family

Production Companies

Every Cloud Productions Pty Ltd

Stan

Christmas Ransom Trailers

Cast

Derrick

Matthew Okine

Gladys

Miranda Tapsell

Pete

Ed Oxenbould

Greg

Chai Hansen

Nan

Geneviève Lemon

Kate (young mother)

Tasneem Roc

Young Terri

Molly Moriarty

Jacko

Mike Duncan

Constable Karen

Adele Vuko

Terri

Vivienne Awosoga

Shez

Bridie McKim

Photographer

Christiaan Van Vuuren

John Dale has everything. Money, notoriety, the biggest house in town. But what he really wants is a good, old-fashioned Christmas. With no family in town, John turns to the local "Rent-All" store and owner Anne Weston. Anne's store is struggling, and in an attempt to save the shop, she takes on this unusual order from this unusual man. She goes about trying to fill the order, but ends up filling a need much greater.

6.7

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7.3

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4.8

Cloudy with a Chance of Christmas

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6.2

Sappy Holiday

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6.8

Christmas Jars

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6.3

Christmas Inheritance

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6.1

Robin and the 7 Hoods

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Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.

6.6

This Christmas

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7.3

Holiday

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7.0

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4.4

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6.2

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6.1

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6.6

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0.0

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5.9

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6.0

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6.0

Unaccompanied Minors

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5.7

The Three Kings

Dec 12, 2001

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