Christmas Every Day

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Christmas Every Day
Directed by Larry Peerce[1]
Produced by Gary M. Goodman Barry Rosen
Written by Stephen Alix Nancey Silvers
Starring Erik von Detten
Music by Billy Goldenberg
Cinematography Gideon Porath
Editing by Jerrold L. Ludwig
Release date(s) December 1 1996 - Family Channel[1]
Country Flag of United States United States
Language English
IMDb profile

Christmas Every Day is a TV movie from 1996, featuring a selfish 13-year-old child, Billy Jackson Erik von Detten reliving Christmas again and again, borrowing most of its plot from Groundhog Day.[2][3] At night on Christmas Day, Billy's sister wishes that it was Christmas every day. And thereafter he has to keep repeating Christmas Day until he realizes the true meaning of the holiday season.[4][5]

The movie also stars Robert Hays and Bess Armstrong as Billy's parents.[2][5][6]

Billy finds the entire experience to be a really a nightmare. "My life is on rewind," he moans. Each December 25 he must face the school bully, get involved in his grocer father's dispute with his fat-cat uncle who wants to build a mega store and ruin the local merchants. Then there's Billy's Christmas pageant prank that goes horribly awry, and the destitute old lady who needs the bag of food he forgets to bring her.[5]

The movie is being remade into a TV movie, released late in 2006. Airing on ABC Family, it will be titled "Christmas Do-Over". [7]

  • Time loop, about the general phenomenon (also lists many other examples of it in fiction)
  • Elmo Saves Christmas - children's film (coincidentally released in the same year) exploring a common childhood wish of wanting Christmas every day

  1. ^ a b Bobbin, Jay (December 1 1996). "Bess Armstrong Finds 'Christmas Every Day' on Family Channel". Buffalo News: 27TV. 
  2. ^ a b Christmas Every Day at the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ Rindge, Brenda (December 2 2002). "'Tis the Season". The Post and Courier: 1D. 
  4. ^ McDonough, Kevin (December 21 1999). "Oh, holiday night ! It's Christmas on every channel". Charleston Daily Mail: P5D. 
  5. ^ a b c Malleck, Bonnie (December 19 1998). "Holiday tales abound;Christmas Every Day sure to please young viewers". The Record: F2. 
  6. ^ (November 25 2004) "Holiday TV". News & Record: D1. 
  7. ^ Christmas Every Day at the Internet Movie Database


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