Secret Santa

Secret Santa

Family, Romance, TV Movie | Dec. 14, 2003

Newspaper reporter Rebecca Chandler, who feels she got no fair chance to prove her worth in her thee years career, looks forward to a Hawaian holiday with her fiancé Ryan, but instead of a ring he brings her- walking orders, he found better. So she accepts again to be the bachelor on duty in the Christmas season, and write the annual romantic non-news feel good-story, once more about the elusive Secret Santa in small-town Hamden, where the Christmas spirit it said to last all year. Bad luck follows her from Indianapolis: her car breaks down, she can only get lodgings in a home for the elderly without Internet, and nobody wants to help her unmask the secret Santa. Soon she guesses it must be the only rich philanthropist, but the popular Mr. John Martin Carter doesn't grant her an interview and isn't tricked either, in fact meets her at the worst repeatedly without her knowing him...

Secret Santa

Family, Romance, TV Movie | Dec. 14, 2003

Secret Santa
Newspaper reporter Rebecca Chandler, who feels she got no fair chance to prove her worth in her thee years career, looks forward to a Hawaian holiday with her fiancé Ryan, but instead of a ring he brings her- walking orders, he found better. So she accepts again to be the bachelor on duty in the Christmas season, and write the annual romantic non-news feel good-story, once more about the elusive Secret Santa in small-town Hamden, where the Christmas spirit it said to last all year. Bad luck follows her from Indianapolis: her car breaks down, she can only get lodgings in a home for the elderly without Internet, and nobody wants to help her unmask the secret Santa. Soon she guesses it must be the only rich philanthropist, but the popular Mr. John Martin Carter doesn't grant her an interview and isn't tricked either, in fact meets her at the worst repeatedly without her knowing him...
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title Secret Santa
Directors Ian Barry
Writers Robert Tate Miller, Beth Polson

Cast

Jennie Garth

as Rebecca Chandler

Steven Eckholdt

as John Martin Carter

Charles Robinson

as Russell

Josh Randall

as Ryan

Kathryn Joosten

as Winifred

Sam Anderson

as Mr. Gibson

Marnette Patterson

as Callie

Cody Fleetwood

as Scotty

Barbara Billingsley

as Miss Ruthie