A Golden Christmas

A Golden Christmas is a 2009 Christmas romance movie starring Andrea Roth and Nicholas Brendon. The television movie premiered on December 13, 2009 as Ion Television's first original television movie. Plot: "A woman visits her parents for Christmas. Hearing that they've "sold" the house, she wants to buy it. At 9 she had a BFF in the woods nearby named Han Solo. She and the buyer are single, divorced and have a child each. Is he her Han?"

Cast

 * Andrea Roth as Jessica
 * Nicholas Brendon as Michael
 * Bruce Davison as Rod, Jessica's father
 * Alley Mills as Katherine, Jessica's mother
 * Elisa Donovan as Anna, Jessica's sister
 * Jason London as Mitch
 * Daniel Zykov as Henry, Jessica's son
 * Melody Hollis as Madeline, Michael's daughter
 * Robert Seay as Chet, the realtor

Series continuation
Two quasi-sequels were made:
 * 3 Holiday Tails, a.k.a. A Golden Christmas 2: The Second Tail, a 2011 direct-to-DVD film, saw a young post-college couple reuniting due to "interference" by several golden retrievers, and a sub-plot having two pre-teens becoming good friends. Only Mills and Davison reprised their roles.
 * A Golden Christmas 3, a.k.a. Home For Christmas, a TV movie released November 2012, featured childhood friends reuniting in love, again due to "magical" circumstance involving several golden retrievers. Alexandra Peters reprises her role from A Golden Christmas 2.

Home media
The film was released on DVD on October 12, 2010.