THE HOLIDAY CALENDAR (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kat Graham (17 Again), Quincy Brown (Dope), Ethan Peck (In Time), Ron Cephas Jones (Dog Days), Romaine Waite (A Family Man), Genelle Williams (It’s A Boy Girl Thing), Laura de Carteret (Mean Girls), Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll (Bounty Hunters), Harris Shore (Wayne’s World), Ali Hassan (The Breadwinner)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Bradley Walsh (Transplant), director; Amyn Kaderali (Kissing Cousins), writer; David Anselmo (Antibirth), producer; Sean Nimmons-Paterson (Stag), composer; Peter Benison (Memory), cinematographer; Gordon McClellan (Coffee Shop), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Abby (Graham) is a struggling but talented photographer who inherits an antique Christmas advent calendar as she and her family begin to celebrate the holidays. However, Abby soon finds that the calendar’s contents are predicting the future, and that she may be about to finally find the one in time for Christmas with the calendar’s help…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

It’s never too early to start celebrating Christmas, as this cute early-release Netflix romantic movie seems to prove, even to the biggest holiday Scrooges out there.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2018 (EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX)

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