Northern Lights of Christmas

Northern Lights of Christmas

2018 · 84 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Zoey Hathaway has been working towards her lifelong goal of being a pilot for years, but everything is thrown off-course when she unexpectedly inherits a reindeer farm, along with the dangerously handsome ranch hand Alec Wynn. Now buried in taking care of reindeer and all the Christmas responsibilities, Zoey thinks life has delivered her a strange and cumbersome blow, and she isn’t sure about Alec, who has his own ideas how best to run things. Alec, who has never had many people have faith in him, opens up when Zoey invests trust in him, and the two find themselves falling for each other. Could they both find happiness in the most unlikely of circumstances right before Christmas?

Directed by Jonathan Wright · Written by B.E. Brauner

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Ashley Williams Zoey Hathaway
Corey Sevier Alec Wynn
Genelle Williams Karen Yazzi
Laura Miyata Anya Parker
Jefferson Brown Brock Parker
Art Hindle Otto Bismer
Bill Lake Chuck Baker
Alix Sideris Joan Hathaway
Ron Lea Doyle Hathaway
Precious Chong Tracie Walker
Christopher Seivright Geoff Peters
Andrea Senior Ginny Peters

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