Get ready to deck the halls and spread some holiday cheer as Great American Christmas returns with its fourth year in 2024! With stars like Danica McKellar, Mario Lopez, and Rhiannon Fish lighting up the screen in the latest trailer, viewers are in for a festive treat. From heartwarming tales to seasonal traditions, this year’s lineup promises to deliver the magic of the holidays straight to your living room. So grab your cocoa and cozy up, because Great American Christmas is back and brighter than ever!
Check out all the Great American Christmas’ 2024 Movies
Wreaths and Ribbons
Release Date: Saturday, October 12th
Synopsis: A wreathmaker slips on ice and injures her arm which puts her holiday wreath deliveries in jeopardy until a selfless neighbor steps up to keep her business afloat.
Cast: Kristin Wollett, Casey Elliott
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A Vintage Christmas
Release Date: Saturday, October 19th
Synopsis: In A Vintage Christmas, Tessa (Patterson) is a dedicated historian and preservationist in her hometown of Oak Creek, an old-fashioned and passionate protector of the nostalgic. Sparks fly when a business developer, Noah (Russell) arrives in Oak Creek with plans to tear down an abandoned Post Office and replace it with a sleek, modern office complex. There are internal and external struggles among many in the community to arrive at a solution that serves the greater good for all concerned. As the clock ticks toward Christmas, the race to settle the dispute through concessions and compromise is on.
Starring Merritt Patterson and Christopher Russell
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A Christmas Castle Proposal
Release Date: Saturday, October 26th
Synopsis: Olivia (Fish) and Price Alexander (Bourke) travel together to his family’s majestic palace in Torovia to spend Christmas with their two families. Despite busy schedules that push the couple in different directions, the couple seems poised to come together for a magical and unforgettable Christmas, until clashing cultures within the families lead to comedic mishaps.
Cast: Rhiannon Fish, Mitchell Bourke
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A Shelter and Season’s Greetings
Release Date: Saturday, November 2nd
Synopsis: Caleb is injured in the Army and recovers through help from shelter therapy dogs. As a sign of thanks, Caleb returns home to help Amber run the local shelter and, in the process, discovers his feelings for Amber go beyond gratitude.
Cast: Ash Tsai, Eric Guillmette
Christmas under the Northern Lights
Release Date: Saturday, November 9th
Synopsis: A historian seeks inspiration for her next project in her family’s hometown of Aurora, which is famous for experiencing the Northern Lights. While there, she bonds with a local tour guide who shows her the town’s Christmas traditions and witnesses a harbinger of miracles to come.
Cast: Jill Wagner, Jesse Hutch
Coupled Up for Christmas
Release Date: Sunday, November 10th
Synopsis: In order to win the love of their soulmates, two strangers pretend to be in a relationship.
Cast: Sara Canning, Marcus Rosner
A Christmas Less Traveled
Release Date: Saturday, November 16th
Synopsis: The Dine and Dash Diner has a stack of mounting unpaid bills, forcing its owner, Desi (Bure), to sell her beloved, mint condition, cherry red 1964 Ford F-100, a gift from her deceased father. As Desi visits the vintage truck one last time, she discovers a recorded message from her dad on an old audio cassette. Desi’s dad’s voice sends her and ‘Old Red’ out to retrace her family’s most memorable moments one last time. Just as the journey begins, Desi meets Greyson (Johnson) who offers her a generous payment in exchange for a ride to ‘close the most important deal’ of his life. Little do Desi and Greyson realize the less traveled road will reveal more about each of them than they could have ever known.
Starring Candace Cameron Bure and Eric Johnson
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A Cozy Christmas Quilt
Release Date: Sunday, November 17th
Synopsis: Firefighter Liam and quilting teacher, Amy, come together to make the perfect quilt for Liam’s sister’s Christmas wedding. Two headstrong people discover the importance of putting personal differences aside to create what is most important at Christmas.
Cast: Ferelith Young, Harmon Walsh
A Little Women’s Christmas
Release Date: Saturday, November 23th
Synopsis: A Little Women’s Christmas is a contemporary retelling of the beloved classic novel, following the lives and loves of the March sisters in a small Tennessee town at Christmas. Jo March is played by Jillian Murray, Trevor Donovan is Friedrich “Fritz” Baehr, Meg March is played by Jen Lilley, Laura Osnes plays Beth March, Julia Reilly is Amy March, and John is played by Jesse Hutch. The one-and-only Gladys Knight performs her new original Christmas song “Joy.”
“A Little Women’s Christmas is a new Christmas classic in the making, with an incredible ensemble cast and an adaptation of an original story that is one of the best I have read,” said Bill Abbott, President & CEO, Great American Media. “Louisa May Alcott was intentional about focusing on the culture of young women, their hopes, ambitions, and dreams, and it remains one of the most widely read and beloved stories ever written,” Abbott concluded.
A Little Women’s Christmas is directed by Brandon Clark. The original movie adaptation is written by Dione Sheehan and Taylor Bird. Executive Producers are Brian Bird, Brandon Clark, Tai Truesdell, Darin Chavez, Brian Williams, Charly White, Lori Overholt, William McDowell, Joyce Miller Roy, Jesse Hutch, and Gladys Knight. Produced by Rodney Eldredge. A Little Women’s Christmas is produced by True Brand Entertainment, Third Coast Film, and Empress of Soul Productions.
Christmas by Candlelight
Release Date: Sunday, November 24th
Synopsis: Juliet pitches Christmas candles to her boss to earn a promotion and enlists the help of a candle store owner who refuses at first but reluctantly agrees when he realizes the money will help make his daughter’s Christmas wish come true.
Cast: Erin Agostino, Harmon Walsh
I heard the Bells
Release Date: Thursday, November 28th and November 30th
Synopsis: Heard the Bells is the inspiring, true story behind the beloved Christmas carol and the song’s author, America’s beloved poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Known as America’s Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow leads an idyllic life…until the day his world is shattered by tragedy. With a nation divided by Civil War and his family torn apart, Henry puts down his pen, silenced by grief. But it’s the sound of Christmas morning that reignites the poet’s lost voice as he discovers the resounding hope of rekindled faith.
Cast: Starring Stephen Atherhold, Jonathan Blair and Rachel Day Hughes
A Cinderella Christmas Ball
Release Date: Friday, November 29th
Synopsis: Chelsea Jones (McKellar) is a dance instructor and studio owner in Chicago who inspires kids to find themselves through dance. Just before Christmas, Chelsea discovers a photo she’s never seen before. Chelsea thinks the young woman is her birth mother who passed away when she was only five years old. The woman is in a wedding dress tugging on the hand of a man wearing a wedding ring, but that is all that can be seen of the man Chelsea believes may be her father.
The photo’s handwritten inscription reads, “Our place, Havenshire, December 23, 1984.” With only the internet, a plane ticket, and lifelong determination to go on, Chelsea now has four days in Havenshire to solve the mystery of her birth family. Along the way, she’ll have to sneak into a castle, teach a stubborn Prince how to dance, and be in just the right place on Christmas Eve when the bells toll.
Starring Danica McKellar (A Royal Date for Christmas, Swing Into Romance) and Oliver Rice (Firefly Lane, Magic In Mistletoe) with waltzes choreographed by Dancing With the Stars pro Gleb Savchenko.
A Royal Christmas Ball is written by Marcy Holland. Story is from McKellar and Marcy Holland.
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Home Sweet Christmas
Release Date: Sunday, December 1st
Synopsis: The made-for-TV movie casts Bure as Sophie Marlow, “a successful mergers and acquisitions attorney, is called home to Waynesbridge, Washington, following her great uncle’s passing. Uncle Henry left Sophie 60% ownership in his Marlow Maple Meadows, a sprawling patch of sugar maple forest. Though Sophie hasn’t been on the property in decades, she immediately begins retracing the happy steps of her youth before encountering Sam (Mathison), her long-lost, childhood friend. Sam has returned to the farm after learning Henry left him the other 40% of the property. The legacy property means a quick sale is likely, though Sophie and Sam will discover neither of them is ready to let go just yet.”
Starring Candace Cameron Bure and Cameron Mathison
Once Upon a Christmas Wish
Release Date: Saturday, December 7th
Synopsis: In Once Upon a Christmas Wish, Mayor Brian Ortega (Mario Lopez) is beloved in the idyllic community of Long Grove. While decorating for Christmas with the residents, Brian discovers his childhood Christmas wish list which magically begins to come true, reminding Brian about the spirit and joy of the holiday. Returning to town for Christmas is Brian’s childhood friend Nina Meyers (Courtney Lopez), and soon a connection becomes undeniable as she helps Brian face a new challenge for the town. As Brian’s wishes come true, he inspires the town to showcase its warm culture and values in order to stop the modern world from stifling the charm and heart of Long Grove.
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Let it Snow
Release Date: Sunday, December 8th
Synopsis: An executive evaluates her company’s property and begins to draw up plans for transforming the rustic old lodge into a hot tourist attraction.
Cast: Starring Candace Cameron Bure, Jesse Hutch and Alan Thicke
Christmas in Scotland
Release Date: Sunday, December 15th
Synopsis: A New York installation designer, who’s helping a small Scottish community on their Christmas village, is forced to work with a wealthy heir who doesn’t like Christmas.
Cast: Jill Winternitz and Dominic Watters
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Get Him Back for Christmas
Release Date: Saturday, December 21th
Synopsis: Bella made it big in music. Jack stayed behind in his hometown working at The Salvation Army to help his family after his dad passes. Bella returns home after a heartbreaking split with her chart-topping singing partner and asks Jack to write the perfect song to get her boyfriend back. Carlos PenaVega wrote and performs an original song, “Get Him Back for Christmas” performed for the film at AT&T Stadium.
Cast: Carlos PenaVega, Alexa PenaVega
A Royal Christmas Ballet
Release Date: Sunday, December 22th
Synopsis: A retired ballerina is pressed into service working with a visiting team of royal ambassadors to put on the season’s performance of “The Nutcracker” and finds herself center stage in an unexpected Christmas romance.
Cast: Brittany Underwood, Jonathan Stoddard
Jingle Bells, Wedding Bells – CANCELLED
Premieres Great American Christmas 2024
Synopsis: In Jingle Bells, Wedding Bells, Gracie (Bure) is Peachtree Inn’s perfect wedding planner whose mantra “No problems, only solutions waiting to be discovered” makes blushing brides’ dreams come true. When Charlie (Mathison) brings his sister and future brother-in-law to their former hometown of Butler, South Carolina, expecting to create a magical Christmas Eve wedding at the Inn for Lindsay and Josh, the trio is stunned when Gracie stubbornly declines the job, saying it is not possible to pull off the perfect wedding two weeks before Christmas. Eventually, Gracie relents and agrees to plan the wedding, only to discover there are more hurdles to overcome than expected.
Starring Candace Cameron Bure and Cameron Mathison.
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