Small Town Christmas

Dec 22, 2018

1h 24m

★ 6.4

Overview

Author Nell Phillips’ first book has become a surprise best-seller of the Christmas season. Nell’s last stop on a nationwide book tour takes her to the town of Springdale, the hometown of Emmett Turner, a young man she met over five years ago while both were junior copy editors at a New York publishing company. Nell was hurt when Emmett stood her up for a dinner date and then disappeared from New York without any explanation. As Nell is quick to admit, Emmett’s colorful, nostalgic anecdotes about Springdale inspired her to write this book that is shaping her life and especially this holiday season.

Genres

Drama

Romance

TV Movie

Production Companies

Hometown Productions

Johnson Production Group

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Cast

Emmett Turner

Kristoffer Polaha

Nell Phillips

Ashley Newbrough

Steve

Ryan McDonell

Stacy

Nhi Do

Hayley

Debs Howard

Marnie

Bailey Skodje

Caroline Lucas

Lucia Walters

Jenny

Veronika Hadravá

Julia

Michelle Choi-Lee

Clerk

Barbara Patrick

Brad

Preston Vanderslice

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