If you’ve seen one Hallmark Christmas movie, you’ve just about seen them all.
There’s usually some workaholic who just isn’t feeling the Christmas spirit this year. They go on a trip to a foreign country to write a news story, have some huge task at work to complete before Christmas, or just run into somebody by a complete and total accident.
Along the way, they meet a free spirit (Bonus points if they’re royalty) who is just so happy all the time and excited for Christmas. They just don’t understand why the workaholic doesn’t like Christmas, which leads them to open up to the free spirit about how Christmas reminds them of a dark time in their life or that they just don’t feel the spirit of the season this year.
The free spirit then takes the workaholic on little adventures to help them experience the joy of Christmas, they both stand up to the bully and/or mean boss in the workaholic’s life, and the workaholic rediscovers the joy of Christmas.