Christmas List

• Put up Christmas Lights
• Make a Wreath
• Carolers
• Hot Chocolate
• Go to Christmas Tree Lot
• Makes Gingerbread House
• Decorate Christmas Tree
• Santa Costume
• Ice Skating
• Snows
• Caroling
• Mistletoe

Director

• Paul A. Kaufman

Producers

• Jamie Goehring
• Paul A. Kaufman
• Kevin Leslie
• Trevor McWhinney
• Joey Plager
• Jonathan Shore
• Shawn Williamson

Cast

• Doug Abrahams
• Peter Benson
• Wanda Cannon
• Christine Chatelain
• Christian Convery
• Gabriel Hogan
• Susan Hogan
• Chance Hurstfield
• Samantha Kendrick
• Trinity King
• Kathryn Kirkpatrick
• Laura Mitchell
• Lina Renna
• Karly Warkentin
• Alicia Witt

ISOBEL'S MOM"It just won't be Christmas without that tree. Aren't family traditions just wonderful?" Thank you for agreeing to house sit Mom. "With all those painters running around my place, I needed somewhere to escape... and I'll find plenty to do around here." Hey, is that what I think it is? "I found it in your old bedroom closet. Thought you might like to have it." Oh, it's my old treasure box! My doll. My old building blocks? Wow, I haven't thought about these in years. "You know these big ornaments really should be on the bottom branches, right? Have you decided where you and your new boyfriend are going by the way?" No, not yet. Brett left it up to me but I know he'd prefer Hawaii. "And how are you two doing? Is it serious?" Too soon to tell. I think we're both thinking. This will be a good opportunity for us to get to know one another better. Oh! It's my old Christmas list!

ISOBELWhere did I think of all these things? "All those old holiday movies you used to love so much I guess." Everything I thought Christmas should be. Huh. "What, what are you doing?" Maybe we won't go to Hawaii this year after all. "Perfect Christmas town?" Perfect Christmas town.

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ISOBELOh, wow! That's everything I always thought Christmas should look like. "Snow!" I always wanted!

BRETT"Sorry I had to duck out. Is everything all right?" Oh, it is now. I'm all done with work and now I get to spend seven whole days alone with this new guy. I've been singing. "New guy? Ugh, I don't like the sound of that. Anyone I know?" Brett Bishop. Maybe you've heard of him? He owns the company? "Brett Bishop, Brett Bishop Design? That Brett Bishop?" Yeah. "Lucky guy!"

ISOBELSo, I know we talked about going somewhere hot, somewhere beachy... "Mmm-hmm, right." But I made us reservations in the most perfect Christmas town ever. "Why do I have a feeling we have different ideas about what that is." Snow! Roasting fireplaces! Sweaters! Oh, and to make sure we don't forget about a thing I made a bucket list. "A bucket list. Are you all right? Because you know usually you make a bucket list if you're about to..." Not that kind of bucket list, a Christmas bucket list! A list of things you wanna make sure you do before the holidays are gone. See. I started it when I was a kid. I just updated it. There are all the things I missed out on growing up.

BRETT"A real tree, caroling, ice-skating. These all sound very cold. What about uh, palm trees, or Santa on a surfboard?" Oh, we have so much to learn about each other. Please tell me you love it. I just so want a real Christmas this year. "What's uh, this last one? A secret wish?" Oh, well that one's new but I promise you it's worth your time to find out. "Really?" What do you think?

BRETT"This is, this is great. It's amazing, but, I've got some bad news. I mean, not, not bad news. Okay, yeah, no it's, it's bad. Our factory's down in Rio, they've got a real mess on their hands and I have to fly down there." South America? When? Oh no. "If there was a way around it." But, but our flights are first thing in the morning. "Well, you go without me. I'll meet you there in a few days. Christmas at the latest." But that's days away. "I will make this up to you. I promise, OK? I gotta run. I'll call you."

ISOBELOooh, yes. You're perfect. Look at you. You even smell like Christmas. Oh, how would you like to come home with me? *some other customer grabs the other side of the tree* "Whoa, uh, hi there." This one's taken for. "Looks like we have a problem." No, not really because I saw it first. "OK, maybe you saw that side of it first but..." This side, that side, it's all the same tree so if you wouldn't mind just letting go. "All right, well here's the thing. Kyle here has really got his heart set on this one, so..." Kyle? "This is Kyle and, and that's Trish. I'm sorry, you are? "Oh, Isobel, Isobel Grey. "Hi Isobel, Grey, Jamie Haughton. Nice to meet you." Nice to meet you. KYLE: "Want to come to my show?" Oh! JAMIE: "It's a school thing. Not now, Kyle, we're negotiating." Well, no. We're not exactly negotiating because there's nothing to negotiate because this tree is mine. "OK, here's the thing. I'd be happy to help you find another tree in the lot on..." Oh, no, Jamie, you don't mind if I call you, Jamie, do you? You see, this may be a little bit hard to believe but I picked out this exact tree 25 years ago. "That's very hard to believe." I'm not kidding. This exact tree. This, this shape and size and color. I've been dreaming about this tree since I first knew what a Christmas tree was. See, I'm from California... TRISH: "Oh, Jamie, give her the tree." Listen to your wife! TRISH: "Actually, I'm..." This Christmas has got to be the one that I have in my head. KYLE: "She's got Christmas in her head?" JAMIE: "That's what she says." The perfect town, the perfect cottage, the perfect holiday getaway for me and my, my boyfriend. KYLE: "Is he in your head too?" No, he's coming, later, eventually, we think, by Christmas. Most likely. He's a very busy man. "Is your boyfriend Santa Claus?" Could we get back to the tree, please? "Yes, here's the thing. When Kyle sets his mind on something, there's just no changing" KYLE: "I found another one!" "He found another one!! TRISH: "Let her have the tree." Thank you!

JAMIE"So he plays clarinet at the Christmas pageant at his school. It's the day after tomorrow. That's what it is... and it's looking like that's gonna be the price for the tree, so, are you in?" Absolutely. Sure. I'll do my very best. "Great." Thank you. Merry Christmas, really. "Merry Christmas to you. Really."

ISOBELBoy, it seemed so much easier in my head. "Hey, you want a hand? I've got lots of room in the back." Oh, if I need a ride, I'll call a taxi. "Are you sure it's not, too big? It's a pretty big tree." I know what I'm doing. Oh, goodness. "Oh yeah, I can see you've got everything under control there." Okay fine. Help. "Only if you're sure. I don't want to impose." I could do it myself. Really. Thank you. "No problem. It's a beautiful tree. Excellent choice!"

JAMIE"Hey, uh, I know you said you had a boyfriend, right? Is that, is that serious?" Well, we're, we're figuring it out. We're assessing things. "Ahh!" What does that mean? Ahh? "Nothing. Just a regular old ahh."

JAMIE"I have to admit you were right. It fits perfectly." I told you I've been planning this forever and the very best part is it's completely real. "Is this the first time you've ever had a real tree?" Mm-hmm, My Mom always thought they were too messy... and I grew up, terrified that Santa was going to pass our house by because there wasn't a real tree in the... "Well hey, maybe this year Santa's gonna bring you what you really want." Maybe he will.

JAMIE"Hey, I'll put these logs by the fireplace. OK?" Oh yeah, perfect. "OK, you're all set. Enjoy your stay." I will. Thank you, log man. Thank you very much. Say hello to your wife and son. "Oh, my sister and nephew. Yeah, will do."

ISOBEL"Everyone step back from your gingerbread houses." Do you think I have a chance? JAMIE: "If they judge by the pound, your golden!"

ISOBELHey, Seventh place! That's not so bad right? "No, considering there were only seven contestants." Hey. You're not helping.

ISOBELWow, this is incredible! Where did these come from? "Well, uh, Santa's elves actually built this as a gift for the town over 100 years ago." I almost believe that. "Yeah, I thought you might. Tell me, what's the fascination with the gingerbread houses?" When I was little there was a bakery in my neighborhood. Every year around the holidays she had this amazing gingerbread house in the window and I just walked by it and imagined the perfect cookie woman in her perfect cookie house. "I'm gonna take a wild guess... and say this cookie woman's name was Isobel?" What gave it away?

JAMIE"So, Gingerbread Isobel she's what?" Realistic. "OK. So she doesn't design what she likes?" She designs what sells. "Ahh." She has her own brand, her own company. Something big, international. Oh, and that house, probably in Paris. "Paris? The property value there is, the gumdrop sidewalk alone..." She can afford it. She's wildly successful, remember? "Very good!" Enough about me, tell me about you. If you were a gingerbread man, who would you be? "Oh, my guy? Easy. Just wants to be happy, own his own business, little family, lots of small town gingerbread friends." All right! To each his own, I guess.

JAMIE"So what's the story with the sleigh ride?" What makes you think there's a story? "Because everything you do has a story behind it." Have you ever seen the movie White Christmas? "No, I can't say I have." You haven't seen White Christmas! "Is it the one with the elf?" No, that would be Elf! "Right." White Christmas is a classic. It's got Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, and they sing and dance and fight. "So it's just like us except for the singing and dancing part." And at the end there's a sleigh ride and the snow comes falling down and everybody is so happy. I want Rosemary Clooney's happy ending, snow and all! Granted at the end she doesn't go sledding off on an inner tube. "I tell you, she does not know what she's missing. Are you ready!"

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JAMIE"Hey, you dropped something." Give that back to me please. "What is it? Christmas bucket list? Isobel are you OK?" It's not that kind of bucket list. Why does nobody get that? "Christmas tree, gingerbread house, the Nutcracker. Oh, is that what Kyle's concert was about?" It's personal. "It's all right. I just, you need a list to get through Christmas? Doesn't that take all the fun out of it? It's the way my family just spends the holiday anyway." Well, I'm very happy for you and your family. "I'm just saying you don't need to force it you know? Christmas has a life of its own just let it happen, everything will work out." Christmas has never had a way of working out for me. For me, it's always been about sunburns, and traffic jams, and overtime, and too many crowds, and too much stress... and for once I would really like Christmas to just be perfect. "Good enough just won't cut it?" Nothing is ever just good enough. "I'm so sorry. That must be exhausting." Well, I'm sorry that my life offends you. But this is the way I've planned it and this is the way I'm living it. "No, no, no, no. Isobel. That's not what I meant."

ISOBEL'S MOM"I do love you, you know." I love you. Flaws and all. "I have flaws?" Hahaha, do you want me to make a list? "No! No more lists!"

ISOBELQuite a team, huh? "Be honest, though, did that Santa outfit make me look fat?" Well, a little bit.

ISOBELJamie wait. Hey, you know we're just friends right? You're clear on that? "What's your point?" Well, we're very different people. "Yeah, I think we've established that several times now probably." Stop being so agreeable. "Isobel, I'm just gonna throw this out there. OK? That guy is not right for you." How would you know? "I mean, he obviously cares about you, but he cares about himself and his work more. Who would pass up the opportunity to spend a week alone with you? Honestly, he'd have to be crazy.

JAMIE"No apologies this time. But I promise you I will leave you alone if that's what you want. Is it?" Is it what? "Is that what you want?" Yeah, I, yeah, of course that's what I want. "OK. Nothing else for me to say then."

JAMIE"Hey," I'm really glad you're here. I was hoping you would be. I hated the way we left things yesterday. "Yeah, uh, yeah. That's my fault. I keep, I keep saying things around you that I don't mean." You didn't mean what you said? "No, no. No, I did, I mean, the good things, I did. The bad things, I didn't, but you can decide which is which."

JAMIE"Oh right, the Secret Christmas Wish." To kiss a man I love under the mistletoe. "Is there a story behind that too?" Not yet. But I'm hoping there will be!