TV Movie - Family - 9 November 2013 (USA)
The holiday story revolves around a tabloid reporter who finds herself in a complicated situation when she gets to know the family she is supposed to break news about and discovers that she likes them.
Greta Kaine (Law) is an ambitious tabloid reporter Pulse! Gossip in Los Angeles, a TMZ style rag with plans to keep up with the times by moving from print to online reporting. Greta and her chief rival Wes (Lenk) are in competition for the editorship position of the new online incarnation of Pulse! Gossip. Their old-school style boss sets the two against eachother, promising the big promotion to the reporter who wins the scoop about the Tannehill family. The boss has gotten a tip that one of the late Senator Tannehill’s two handsome and eligible sons might be proposing marriage at the family’s Big Bear compound during Christmas.
Greta's friend is preparing for her upcoming destination wedding and becoming a bridezilla. In order to help the bride, Greta offers to pick up her wedding dress, a big puffy creation and an heirloom of the groom's family. Greta places the big, white dress in the trunk of her car.
When Greta’s assistant tells her that Wes has a head start to snowy Big Bear, Greta dashes off to the Big Bear Lake mountain resort without making any preparations, thinking she will buy warm clothes when she arrives. While looking for the Tannenhill estate, she runs her car into a tree, realizes that she is almost out of gas and that she has lost cell phone reception.
Freezing, she throws on the only clothing she has in the car: her friend's precious wedding dress,, which she promptly ruins by tripping and tumbling down a hill while searching for help. Lucky for Greta, a handsome stranger turns up and rescues her, taking her to his rustic mountain lodge. Since she is wearing a wedding dress, the stranger assumes he has a runaway bride on his hands.
The handsome stranger turns out to be just who Greta is looking for, elder Tannehill son Ben Tannenhill (Belfi). What follows is a comedy of errors, as Greta volunteers to pose as Ben’s girlfriend after his brother Jared (Campo) comes home with his conniving girlfriend Klaire (Abromeit), who is also Ben’s ex-girlfriend.
Now an invited guest at the Tannehill estate, Greta discovers that the family, including matriarch Maggie Tannenhill (Richardson) and long-time caretaker Peters (Brown), are more down-to-earth than she ever gave them credit for. She learns that they are actually very nice and becomes guilt-ridden about her subterfuge as grows more attracted to Ben.
Greta has a crisis of conscience has she wonders if betrayal is worth the price of the scoop.
Director: Bert Kish
Writer: Tracy Andreen
Stars: Jake Ryan Scott, Susie Abromeit, Keith Andreen