Golden Globe nominee Tom Cavanagh (Ed)and five-time Emmy nominee Faith Ford (Murphy Brown) discover a change of address in Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas, a Hallmark Channel Original Movie.
The movie premieres Saturday, November 26, and is actually the third title in the network's ongoing Debbie Macomber film series, which currently has several of the author's books in varying stages of development.
The movie is based on the novel When Christmas Comes and will be reissued as Trading Christmas in advance of the TV movie this November. Co-starring with Cavanagh and Ford are Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal), Gabrielle Miller (Pasadena) and Emma Lahana (Hellcats).
Emily (Ford) misses her daughter Heather (Lahana) who is attending college in Boston. Since her father died, Heather is sensitive to her mom's dependence on long-standing holiday traditions. This Christmas, Heather has planned a trip to Phoenix with her boyfriend, but tells her mother she is staying on campus to study. After arranging a house-swap with Charles (Cavanagh), an English professor from Boston who wants Washington State's solitude in order to finish his novel, Emily hops on a flight to Boston to surprise Heather for Christmas. Unaware of the house swap, Emily's best friend, Faith (Miller) walks in on Charles at Emily's house and in Boston, Ray, Charles' brother (Bellows) responds to a 911 call only to find Emily at Charles' condo.
Will Christmas travel calamities lead to cross-country romances? Or have there been one too many surprises already?
