Untitled Hallmark Christmas Movie Project

A man from the East Coast goes to visit his estranged wife and their children for Christmas. She moved out to California for a job opportunity and he refused to leave the city that he called home. She’s had flirtations with another man, a corporate hotshot, but she still has a family photo with her husband on his desk, and the kids love him to pieces. When he arrives at the airport, he has a huge stuffed bear to give the children, whom he has missed dearly. He plans to meet up with his wife at her high-powered corporate office for a talk, then go see the children with her, then leave to stay elsewhere. That was the plan, at least. Moved by the spirit of Christmas and her still-burning torch for their marriage, however, she invites him to stay at the house with her and the kids. She admits she missed him.

It can’t be too easy for him though, so he observes the West Coast hotshot flirting with her wife. To make things more complicated, the husband realizes she started using her maiden name again. They fight about that, and they rehash past fights, thus reminding them (and the viewers) why their marriage fell apart all those months ago.

But then comes a crisis. I’m still working on the details of what crisis arises, but the corporate hotshot guy she’d been flirting with turns out to be a total flake. The rock-solid man she really loved all along comes through and saves the day; they are fully reunited with a rekindled love. They kiss and drive away to go see their children together and have a wonderful family Christmas while “Let It Snow” plays and the credits and their car tires roll.

You know, a terrorist attack might just be the perfect crisis. I’m thinking, say, Alan Rickman as the terrorist leader? He could be a German. Oh, and Bruce Willis for the hero. Guy’s got a heart of gold.