A charming tale about two children who scheme to get their separated parents back together again for the holiday season. In this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine ( Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael ( Chicago Hope's Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, she and Ethan ( Sweet Home Alabama's Ethan Embry) come up with a plan to strand their parents alone together on Christmas Eve. Hallie even asks Santa (Leslie Nielsen) to help them out. All I Want for Christmas doesn't pack any surprises, but it's suitable for all ages and features lively cameos from Andrea Martin as Lillian's housekeeper and Rene Taylor as Catherine's rodent-fearing wedding planner. --Kathleen C. Fennessy