White Christmas meets Nora Ephron in Jenny BaylissтАЩ latest wholehearted, ensemble-cast holiday extravaganza.
Christmas can officially get stuffed because Harriet Smith is not feeling bright and merry this year. She hasnтАЩt for a while. So when her college-aged daughter opts for ManhattanтАЩs winter wonderland instead of Christmas at home, Harriet finds herself seeking solace in a wine-soaked one-night stand.
But how Harriet will spend the holidays is swiftly decided for her after she takes the fall for some students who break into the townтАЩs old Winter Theater. To get the students off the hook, the theaterтАЩs elderly owner requests that Harriet direct the washed-out stageтАЩs final Christmas performance. And Harriet will do anything to help the kids . . . even work with the ownerтАЩs lawyer who, as it turns out, is her less than impressed one-night stand.
Directing the play with him won't exactly change her life. But it might just reignite the Christmas spirit and remind her what makes life merry and bright again.