Holiday Movie A SUDDEN CASE OF CHRISTMAS Starring Danny DeVito, Andie MacDowell and Wilmer Valderrama to Sell at Cannes
A new holiday movie titled A Sudden Case of Christmas is headed our way, starring Danny DeVito, Andie MacDowell, Wilmer Valderrama, and Lucy DeVito. The film will be presented to buyers at this week’s Cannes Market.
The pic is from director Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us) with a screenplay penned by Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay, Gianluca Bomprezzi, Neri Parenti, Dederico Baccomo, and Francesco Patierno.
“The film follows Lawrence (DeVito), who runs a grand hotel in the mountains of Italy. Every winter, he hosts the extended family for Christmas – but this year, his daughter (Lucy DeVito) and her husband (Valderrama) are bringing their 10-year-old, Claire (Antonella Rose), to visit in August.
The young couple comes with shocking news, they are divorcing and tasked Lawrence with being the bearer of bad news to Claire. When Claire realizes her soon-to-be broken family won’t be returning in December, she insists on having one last Christmas with the entire family now in the middle of summer.
Her other grandparents (MacDowell and José Zúñiga) are summoned while Claire, in collusion with her grandfather Lawrence, plans activities designed to reunite her parents and bring the whole family back together.”
This sounds like your typical Christmas movie you may see hit a streamer like Netflix during the holiday season, but it does have a pretty fun cast, so that might set it apart. Stay tuned for news from Cannes to find out where this and other films end up.