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''A Golden Christmas'' is a 2009 Christmas
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starring
Andrea Roth Andrea Roth (born September 30, 1967) is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Janet Gavin, the wife of main character Tommy Gavin, on the FX television series '' Rescue Me'' (2004–2011), as Victoria Chase in ''The Co ...
and
Nicholas Brendon Nicholas Brendon Schultz (born April 12, 1971), known professionally as Nicholas Brendon, is an American actor and writer. He is best known for playing Xander Harris in the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997–2003) and Kevin L ...
. The television movie premiered on December 13, 2009 as
Ion Television Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented enter ...
's first original television movie. 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

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Andrea Roth Andrea Roth (born September 30, 1967) is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Janet Gavin, the wife of main character Tommy Gavin, on the FX television series '' Rescue Me'' (2004–2011), as Victoria Chase in ''The Co ...
as Jessica *
Nicholas Brendon Nicholas Brendon Schultz (born April 12, 1971), known professionally as Nicholas Brendon, is an American actor and writer. He is best known for playing Xander Harris in the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997–2003) and Kevin L ...
as Michael *
Bruce Davison Bruce Allen Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and director. Davison is well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film '' Willard'' (1971) and his Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning perfor ...
as Rod, Jessica's father *
Alley Mills Allison Mills (born May 9, 1951), also known as Alley Bean, is an American actress best known for her role as Norma Arnold, the mother in the coming-of-age series ''The Wonder Years'', her role as Pamela Douglas, the sister of the late Forreste ...
as Katherine, Jessica's mother *
Elisa Donovan Lisa Adaline Donovan (born February 3, 1971), known professionally as Elisa Donovan, is an American actress. She played the role of Amber in the 1995 teen comedy film ''Clueless'', and reprised her role in the TV series of the same name (1996-1 ...
as Anna, Jessica's sister *
Jason London Jason Paul London (born November 7, 1972) is an American actor, known for his roles as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film '' Dazed and Confused'' (1993), as Jesse in '' The Rage: Carrie 2'' (1999) and as Rick Rambis in '' O ...
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.


See also

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List of Christmas films Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year d ...


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