It’s “Mean Girls” meets “Glee” for this holiday film!
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TITLE: Christmas Crush (Holiday High School Reunion)
FILM YEAR: 2013
DURATION: 1 Hr., 27 Minutes
COMPANY: Lifetime Television
Directed by Marita Gabiak
Written by Barbara Kymlicka
Produced by Michael M. McGuire
Executive Producer: Timothy O. Johnson
Associate Producer: Rachel Boston, Sage Scroope
Music by Russ Howard III
Cinematography by Pietro Zuercher
Edited by Tyler MacIntyre
Casting by Lindsay Chag
Production Design by Rachel Robb Kondrath
Art Direction by Nick Nakahara
Costume Design by Jennifer Garnet Filo
Starring:
Rachel Boston as Georgia Hunt
Jonathan Bennett as Ben Oliver
Jon Prescott as Craig
Marilu Henner as Beverly Hunt
Harry Hamlin as Mr. Taylor
Sunny Mabrey as Tory
Julia Voth as Katie
Elizabeth Braun as Heather
Josh Crotty as Jay
Eileen Boylan as Brook
Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia is convinced the man of her dreams is the one “that got away” back in high school. Though she’s tried dating other men, they just never seem to compare to her high school flame. When Georgia learns of her high school reunion a week before Christmas, she’s ecstatic to finally have her chance to win Craig back. But as she gets to relive high school for a night, she begins to realize it might not be Craig at all who got away, but Ben, an old friend with whom she’d fallen out of touch.
It’s “‘Mean Girls’ meets ‘Glee’ meets Christmas” for the 2013 holiday telefilm “A Christmas Crush” (aka “Holiday High School Reunion”).
Directed by Marita Grabiak (“Yellowstone Romance”, “9-1-1: Lone Star”, “Baby, It’s Cold Inside”) and written by Barbara Kymlicka (“Winter Castle”, “Twisted”, “Becoming Santa”).
The film features Rachel Boston (“500 Days of Summer”, “Ghost of Girlfriends Past”,”Witches of East End”), Jonathan Bennett (“Mean Girls”, “Awkward.”, “The Christmas House”), Jon Prescott (“The Holiday”, “Howl”, “Parts Per Billion”), Marilu Henner (“Taxi”, “L.A. Story”), Harry Hamlin (“L.A. Law”, “Clash of the Titans”), Sunny Mabrey (“Hillbilly Elegy”, “Snakes on a Plane”, “xXx: State of the Union”), Julia Voth (“Bitch Slap”, “Hard Surfaces”, “Love Hurts”), Elizabeth Braun (“CSI: NY”) and more.
Since this holiday film, actress Rachel Boston has been a well-known actress to holiday films, almost starring in a Christmas film each year for the next decade and in this film, Boston plays the character role of Georgia Hunt, the popular cheerleader and student who was voted “Most Likely to Succeed”.
But she is only a fashion designer’s assistance and really hasn’t succeeded. So, when she comes back for the annual high school reunion a week before Christmas in her hometown, she dreams of her past with her ex-high school jock boyfriend Craig and what he may be doing today.
In Georgie’s mind, possibly returning to the high school reunion, she may rekindle a relationship with her ex-boyfriend.
But immediately visiting her are her former popular cheerleading/glee club friends, Tory (portrayed by Sunny Mabrey), Katie (portrayed by Julia Voth) and Heather (portrayed by Elizabeth Braun). And not wanting to let her friends know that she didn’t succeed, she tells them that she is a famous fashion designer with a famous boyfriend.
And as everyone thinks Georgia is living a dream, she runs into her best friend Ben Oliver (portrayed by Jonathan Bennett), who has always liked her and as Ben felt with so many years passed, and he wants to confess his feelings to her, he realizes that she still has her eyes on her ex.
But also having her eye on her ex is her friend Tory.
Suffice to say, this holiday high school reunion may not turn out so great for Georgia.
This was a humorous and also a little more mature holiday telefilm as we get to see a crazy high school reunion where only things can go good or bad for former popular cheerleader/glee club singer/student Georgia. In a way, this high school reunion sums up my feelings of high school reunions where there are people who go to rekindle their life that they had back in high school and the same for Georgia.
While she is a good person working hard in the fashion industry (as an assistant), she’s not reaching her full potential and she knows it and her mother (portrayed by Marilu Henner) knows it. But she creates a facade that she has succeeded but even her friends are skeptical and it turns her friends into enemies….well, considering that Georgia wants to get back with her ex-Craig and Tory also wants him.
But what Georgia doesn’t see that through high school and at this reunion, there was one guy who has been by her side all along. Will she ever realize it?
As for the mature situation, we have the character of Katie, who immediately wants to get nasty with the high school principal, Mr. Taylor (now that she’s “legal”).
As mentioned, the film is like “Mean Girls” meets “Glee” meets Christmas because as we have established the “Mean Girls” part of it, there is a lot of singing featuring the popular quartet on stage and personally, I felt this so narcissistic that only these four are the primary people performing, just because they were popular a decade(s) ago. But that’s high school reunions for you. Some people stuck in the past and this holiday film was about people stuck in the past.
But at least there is some holiday romance and definitely something different to watch during the holidays.
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