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Both photos are from imdb Directed by  Mark Jean Writing Credits   Jean Abounader (story) & J.B. White (story)   J.B. White (teleplay) This movie was literally SHELVED for the longest time, until today.  I just didn't have the energy to watch something so SHALLOW, so I thought. This movie is not shallow at all.  Yes, it was very OBVIOUS that the younger sister played by ANNA CHLUMSKY would eventually grow up, and that neighbour of her Big Sister, Mandy(CHELAH HORSDAL), as played by WARREN CHRISTIE, would be her future beau because her dunce of a boyfriend(JESSE HUTCH) did not deserve her attention. Still there were surprises here and there. The problems of the kids are nothing new, and so were the solutions, but I like how this movie was acted by the ensemble. As for Mandy and her loving husband, Brian(WILLIAM DEVRY), they had some romance to be rekindled, so it could be said that they had to do something about that too. ...

Google Images When Falcon Resorts acquires family-owned Snow Valley Lodge from retiring owners Karla (Gabrielle Rose) and Paul (Dan Willmott), driven executive Stephanie Beck (Candace Cameron Bure) must spend the week before Christmas in Maine preparing a proposal on the property's renovations. Determined to impress Falcon's president, her detached father Ted (Alan Thicke), Stephanie reluctantly departs her warm Arizona home to immerse herself in the lodge's property and decide how to change it to fit the hip, young Falcon brand. While preparing to rebuild the Snow Valley Lodge from the ground up, Stephanie butts heads with her property guide, Brady Lewis (Jesse Hutch), Karla and Paul's son, who has decided to leave his family's business over creative differences with his dad. A self-defined Grinch, Stephanie begins her stay at Snow Valley Lodge immune to Christmas sentiment. But as the lodge's festive traditions provide the Christmas Stephanie never...