A Golden Christmas Explained

Director:	John Murlowski
Starring:	Andrea Roth Nicholas Brendon
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Runtime:	95 minutes
Network:	Ion Television

A Golden Christmas is a 2009 Christmas romance movie starring Andrea Roth and Nicholas Brendon. The television movie premiered on December 13, 2009 as Ion Television's first original television movie.^[1] Plot: "A woman visits her parents for Christmas. Hearing that they've "sold" the house, she wants to buy it. At 9 she had a BFF in the woods nearby named Han Solo. She and the buyer are single, divorced and have a child each. Is he her Han?"

Cast

• Andrea Roth as Jessica
• Nicholas Brendon as Michael
• Bruce Davison as Rod, Jessica's father
• Alley Mills as Katherine, Jessica's mother
• Elisa Donovan as Anna, Jessica's sister
• Jason London as Mitch
• Daniel Zykov as Henry, Jessica's son
• Melody Hollis as Madeline, Michael's daughter
• Robert Seay as Chet, the realtor

Series continuation

Two quasi-sequels were made:

• 3 Holiday Tails, a.k.a. A Golden Christmas 2: The Second Tail, a 2011 direct-to-DVD film, saw a young post-college couple reuniting due to "interference" by several golden retrievers, and a sub-plot having two pre-teens becoming good friends. Only Mills and Davison reprised their roles.
• A Golden Christmas 3, a.k.a. Home For Christmas, a TV movie released November 2012, featured childhood friends reuniting in love, again due to "magical" circumstance involving several golden retrievers. Alexandra Peters reprises her role from A Golden Christmas 2.

Home media

The film was released on DVD on October 12, 2010.^[2]

See also

• List of Christmas films

Notes and References

1. Web site: ION Television to Premiere Network's First Originally Produced Film --"A Golden Christmas"-- on Sunday, December 13 . businesswire.com . November 17, 2009 . January 21, 2011.
2. Web site: Carpenter . Edwin . A Golden Christmas . The Dove Foundation . 18 August 2020.