A Golden Christmas

A Golden Christmas
Written by	Jay Cipriani
Directed by	John Murlowski
Starring	Andrea Roth Nicholas Brendon
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Running time	95 minutes
Original release
Network	Ion Television
Release	December 13, 2009 (2009-12-13)

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. ^[1] 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. ^[2]

Reception

Common Sense Media rated the film 2 out of 5 stars. ^[3]

Robert Lloyd of The Los Angeles Times said, "There is a dog in this one, too, along with Elisa Donovan, Bruce Davison and Alley Mills, and everyone does nice work." ^[4]

See also

• List of Christmas films

References

1. "ION Television to Premiere Network's First Originally Produced Film --"A Golden Christmas"-- on Sunday, December 13". businesswire.com. November 17, 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2011.
2. Carpenter, Edwin. "A Golden Christmas". The Dove Foundation. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
3. Costello, Brian. "Parents' Guide to A Golden Christmas". Common Sense Media. Retrieved July 24, 2025.
4. Lloyd, Robert. "5 new Christmas tales on cable neatly tied up with a bow". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 24, 2025.

External links

• A Golden Christmas at IMDb
• Golden Christmas: The Second Tail at IMDb
• Home for Christmas: Golden Christmas 3 at IMDb