When a lifestyle guru’s carefully crafted, fictional "perfect family" is suddenly expected to appear on a live Christmas Eve special, she recruits friends and neighbors to pose as her family — including her best friend, who still has feelings for her.
Joy to the World
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While promoting her latest Christmas cookbook, notoriously private author and lifestyle guru Joy Edwards learns that her publisher has arranged for a live Christmas Eve TV special from her fabled storybook home, "Goose Lane," so America can meet the family who make Joy’s life so perfect. Unfortunately, Joy's perfect life with her doting parents, wonderful husband, and two adorable children is a complete fabrication. Years ago her agent convinced her to create a family in order to sell her family cookbook, and she's had to keep up the ruse ever since. But being a true perfectionist, Joy Edwards doesn’t give up — she recruits her best friend, Max, her housekeeper, mailman, and the two kids next door to pose as her nearest and dearest for the holidays. For the first time in years, Joy's doing the things she’s only written about, with people who love her. As the group spends more time together, the fake family begins to feel like a real one. When old sparks begin to fly again with Max, Joy begins to realize what she’s been missing out on all these years…But when disaster ensues during the live episode, can Joy weather the Christmas storm?
- Duration:
- 1h 27m
- Release Date:
- 2025
- Genre:
- Romance
- Rating:
- Director:
- Jerry Ciccoritti
- Cast:
- Emmanuelle Chriqui
- Chad Michael Murray
- Ayesha Curry
- Heleene Lohan Cameron
- Guy Sprung
- Daniel Kash
- Category: Movie
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