A Boyfriend For Christmas

Directed by Kevin Connor and written by Roger Schroeder, it aired November 27, 2004 on the Hallmark Channel.

A Boyfriend for Christmas
Written by	Roger Schroeder
Directed by	Kevin Connor
Starring	Kelli Williams Patrick Muldoon Charles Durning Bruce Thomas Shannon Wilcox
Music by	Charles Sydnor
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Robert Halmi Jr. Larry Levinson
Producers	Kyle Clark James Willberger
Cinematography	Amit Bhattacharya
Editor	Thomas A. Krueger
Running time	90 minutes
Production companies	Alpine Medien Productions Larry Levinson Productions
Original release
Network	Hallmark Channel
Release	November 27, 2004 (2004-11-27)

After helping a boy take his little sister to see Santa, 13-year-old Holly Grant tells a shopping mall Santa Claus that she would like to have a boyfriend for Christmas. Twenty years later, Holly is a romantic skeptic and is more focused on her career as a social worker. At the time, she is in court helping a mother get her children back from foster care. When the mother's lawyer, Ryan Hughes, does not show up in court, Holly is extremely angry and sends Hughes a letter via her secretary. On Christmas Day, she opens her door to a man carrying a Christmas tree and a bow on his chest. He hands her a note that says, "As promised, one boyfriend for Christmas," and introduces himself as "Douglas Firwood". She assumes he is a gag present from her friend Diane, and invites him into her home. Later that day she takes him with her to her parents' house for Christmas dinner. Hoping to keep her matchmaking family, especially her manipulative sister-in-law Carol, off her back, she tells everyone that Douglas is her long-term boyfriend, and Douglas plays along. On New Year's Eve, Holly learns from her scheming ex-boyfriend Ted that Douglas is really Ryan Hughes, who was sent to her by Santa Claus. She accuses him of lying to her and tells him to leave. After persuasion by Santa Claus and refusing Ted's marriage proposal, she follows Ryan. They meet up at a park, where they finally remember where they first met - at age 13 when she helped him take his little sister to see Santa - and they watch the New Year's fireworks together.

Television

A Boyfriend for Christmas was a made-for-TV production, which aired on the Hallmark Channel November 27, 2004. It earned a 2.7 Nielsen Media Research household rating, placing it as the number two broadcast for its time period for ad-supported cable networks, and the number one broadcast for adults aged 25–54 and women aged 25–54.

A review in TV Guide says of the film "like fruitcake, [it] is sweet but full of empty calories."

In The New York Times, A Boyfriend for Christmas is identified as bland, yet pleasant and harmless."

DVD

The DVD was released on November 8, 2005.

• List of Christmas films