Your Christmas or Mine 2

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Your Christmas or Mine 2
Directed byJim O'Hanlon
Written by Tom Parry
Produced by
  • Kate Heggie
  • Richard Webb
Starring
CinematographyStephan Pehrsson
Edited byMark Thornton
Music byPaul Saunderson
Production
companies
  • Mighty Pebble Pictures
  • Shiny Button Productions
  • The Story Collective
Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios
Release date
  • December 8, 2023 (2023-12-08)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Your Christmas or Mine 2 is a 2023 British Christmas romantic comedy film written by Tom Parry and directed by Jim O'Hanlon. It is a sequel to Your Christmas or Mine? (2022). The film stars Asa Butterfield, Cora Kirk, Daniel Mays, Angela Griffin, Alex Jennings, and Jane Krakowski. The film was released on 8 December 2023 by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Plot

A year after the events of the previous film, James and Hayley are still a couple, so the Hughes and Taylor families organise to spend Christmas in the Austrian Alps together. However, Hayley's dad doesn't want to be beholden to Jame's father, so insists on using alternative accommodations.

Their shuttles are mixed up at the airport and the working-class Taylors end up in the posh Hugheses' luxury resort, while the latter end up in the former's sparse hostel. As their bags do arrive to their correct places, Hayley finds an engagement ring in what she believes is James's luggage (actually his father's) and mistakenly assumes that James intends to propose.

After a night having to put up with the mix up, they are reunited at the resort. They all go skiing together, where the inexperienced Hayley has an accident while trying to keep up with and impress James's childhood friend Bea. As she's sent back down the mountain in the gondola, the watches jealously as they zip down the mountain together.

At the men's drunken night out, Hayley's father slips that Hayley expects James to propose, while Diane slips to Hayley that he may attend an American film school in Los Angeles next year while having a spa day. Later that night, Hayley sees James practicing his proposal to Bea, and mistakenly assumes he is actually proposing to her.

James catches up to Hayley and explains, proposing then and there. She rejects him as he's drunk so maybe isn't so sincere, and is convinced it was James's father who intended to propose to his American girlfriend Diane. Fearing she will never fit in with James's posh upbringing, she breaks up with him, leaving the hotel with her family.

The next morning, the Hugheses set out for the hostel to right things, but have already missed the Taylors. They hurry to the airport and stop the plane so James can make up with Hayley. The two families return to spend Christmas at the resort.

There, James's father tells him that the engagement ring (which belonged to his late mother) was never for Diane, but that he intended to pass it on to James for a future proposal to Hayley. Both he and Hayley open their Christmas presents. James includes a key to his apartment, alluding to a potential forever. Whereas Hayley's card, written weeks ago, reveals that she wanted to propose to him all along, and James accepts.

Cast

Production

Both scriptwriter Tom Parry and director Jim O'Hanlon return for the sequel. The core cast also return from the first film but is added to by Jane Krawkowski, playing Humphrey's new American girlfriend. Production comes from Mighty Pebble Pictures and The Story Collective. [1] Filming locations included London and Austria. [2] The song You're Christmas to Me by Sam Ryder was commissioned for the film, and reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart on 22 December 2023. [3]

Release

The film became available on Amazon Prime Video 8 December 2023. [4] The release of the film was proceeded by the release of two promotional singles "You're Christmas to Me" by Sam Ryder and "Christmas Without You" by Anne-Marie, which both appear on the official soundtrack.

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