After meeting a woman named Ginny and telling her the story of her
failed engagement, Ali wakes up to find herself transported back to that
Christmas before her planned wedding. While she sets out to avoid the
mistakes of her past, she learns that changing the course of history is
no easy task.
Hailee Anderson, the famous talk show host, is
preparing for the holiday season by working; she's planning her very
important TV show, her Christmas special. Already a scrooge, Hailee is
even more miserable when she finds out on live TV that her real-estate fiancée Jason is cheating on her! To clear her head, she goes on
a drive and ends up in Carver Bend, Connecticut, and unfortunately crashes
through a local judge's fence. When is sentenced to community service, witness and rescuer Logan recommends she work with him at the local art center where they are building a float to win the contest at the annual Christmas Parade.
While Hailee bonds with the locals, the art center kids, and grows
closer to Logan, she begins to learn the magic and joy of Christmas.
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco (Barry Watson) is ordered by his parole
officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during
the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he
hastily promises a young boy, Billy (Tucker Meeks), that Santa will
bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. When his sister
Rosemary (Melissa Joan Hart) hears this, she is livid and can't believe
he would break a little boy's heart with an empty promise. After a long
night of soul searching--and with the help of an insightful female
pastor (Wendy Williams)--Nick decides to make good on his promise to the
child, somehow.
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by award winning author
Wally Lamb. A vivid slice of 1960s life, Wishin' and Hopin' is a
wise-and-witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been-and how far
we've come. In the small town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, we go
straight into the halls of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School with
Felix Funicello, a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to
fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen
movie queen. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this
holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame
Frechette and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns
the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux
vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels toward one outrageous Christmas! 
As the only daughter of an expert tailor in Philadelphia, Emily
Corrigan is a kindhearted young woman proud of her blue-collar
background. She is a devoted seamstress at the family business and madly
in love with her doting European boyfriend, Leo. But as their first
Christmas together approaches, Leo drops a bombshell on his unsuspecting
girlfriend: he is actually Prince Leopold, heir to the throne of
Cordinia, a small sovereign country. 
Fireman Zachary Stone (Brandon Routh) is a confirmed bachelor who doesn’t
believe in love or commitment. When a stray tabby cat named Ambrose
shows up at his door, Zachary takes him in and slowly starts to see that
a little companionship might not be so bad after all. Zachary’s
commitment to solitude is further challenged when he meets Marilee
(Kimberly Sustad), an animal lover and veterinary student who teaches Zachary how
to care for his new feline roommate. Chemistry immediately develops
between the two, but will they find a way together despite themselves?
Aspiring astronomy professor and Christmas enthusiast Holly is crushed
when her longtime boyfriend Adam schedules a business trip and leaves
her alone over the holidays. When she decides to surprise both Adam and
her parents with a Christmas visit, however, fate, or perhaps the
Christmas spirit, intervenes. Holly's bumpy holiday travel makes a turn
onto the road to romance when she and her bus companion, Luke, forge an
instant connection over their love of constellations and Christmas. In
the spirit of the season, Holly invites Luke and his brother Bull to
join her family and Adam for Christmas, which instantly creates a
competition between Luke and Adam for Holly's attention. As sparks fly
like shooting stars between Holly and Luke, will Holly decide to play it
safe and stay with Adam or to thank her lucky stars for the Christmas
gift of romance with Luke?