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Father and daughter Casey and Heather Twain own and operate Paradise Ranch, a combination working/5-star dude ranch outside of Big Sky, Montana, the dude part of the ranch which is just about to open for the season. They decide to hire actor Avery Ford for a promotional event to mark the opening, Avery the star of the "Aim to Please" series of westerns, which Casey, a once famous cowboy in his own right, loves. What the Twains have failed to tell Avery or his agent Candace is that the ranch, whose 5 stars are based solely on authenticity and not luxuries, has been losing more and more business each year, where another failing year will mean the loss of the ranch, which has been in the family for generations. The PR event is a last ditch effort to have a good enough season to pay off their creditors. An amoral developer named Guthrie is just waiting for the ranch to fail so that he can buy it for a song and turn it into condos, despite he coming from a ranching background h...

Eloise Mumford  as Lindsay Anne Rogers  Michael Stahl-David  as Jason Michael Stewart  Christopher Lloyd  as Grandpa Bob  William Shatner  as Coachman Nick  Tess Atkins as Becca Laura Soltis  as Shannon Rogers Directed by Sean McNamara Written by Helen Frost and Don McLeod Alternate universes, second chances and anything similar to that have been topics of many movies, and just recently, and to be specific, I've seen A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS .  It took time before I was able to write something about it, but I was able to, even if I was disappointed that both of them had to give up their dreams just to have their dream family. Thankfully, this story is not anything like that.   I won't go into detail, but Lindsay realised that all the trophies, medals, accolades, and what have you, would be meaningless if she could not share it with the ones she loved . The story is also fair to all the characters. It's m...