''I'll Be Next Door for Christmas'' is a 2018 American

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directed by David Jay Willis and starring

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and

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in her final film role. The movie was released worldwide on Amazon Prime and iTunes. It is the very first feature length film in the United States to successfully use Equity Crowdfunding to raise its budget, with 893 investors.

Premise

''I'll Be Next Door for Christmas'' is a story of a sixteen-year-old girl Nicky who lives in Santa Clarita, California with her family who are crazy for the Christmas holidays. Her family's very over-the-top Christmas celebrations have made her life miserable. At a special summer camp for musicians and actors, Nicky meets the boy of her dreams, Tanner (Bolanos). Tanner decides to visit her from

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, along with his father, for the Christmas holidays. But Nicky doesn't want to get her family in front of Tanner, so she hires actors to play her parents and arranges a fake Christmas dinner in the empty house next door.

Cast

as Ms. James *

as Archie *

as Bradley *

as Fran *

as Chris *

as Parsley the Cat *Javier Bolanos as Tanner *Juliette Angelo as Nicky *Kirrilee Berger as Stephanie *Susan Chuang as Patty *

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as Ancient Man *

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as Gramma *Gonzalo Martin as Jason *London Fuller as Noelle *Hannah McCloud 13-Year-Old Nicky

Reception

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gave the film 3 stars out of 5.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 4057146 American Christmas comedy films 2018 films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films 2010s Christmas comedy films English-language Christmas comedy films