It's Coming on Christmas
Logline: Adrift and in search of connection, a billionaire Playboy decides to buy a sparkling snow globe Vermont town but comes up against a nostalgic local who has spent her entire life fighting to preserve its magical charm.
Synopsis: Liv Blanchard has spent her life preserving the soul of Hollybrook—a picture-perfect, cozy town where Christmas still feels like Christmas. With a heart full of memories and her antique shop, the Harvest Moon, Liv clings to tradition, determined never to go “magic blind,” even as the world around her begins to change.
Jamieson Walls, a billionaire playboy entertainment mogul with a flair for spectacle and a void in his life he can’t quite put his finger on, finds himself adrift at his own glamorous holiday party in the Swiss Alps. A chance encounter at a village Christmas market stirs something long dormant: a yearning for community, connection, and meaning. His solution? Buy his own hometown and build something lasting.
But Hollybrook isn’t for sale - at least not for Liv. When Walls arrives with plans to transform the town, Liv leads a grass-roots charge against him. As they clash over the future of Hollybrook, they find themselves drawn together by shared longing, buried grief, and a quiet hope that love might still surprise them . . . and that Christmas magic really could be real.
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Sam EllisWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Number of Pages:105
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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BlueCat Screeplay Competition
Quarterfinalist
Sam Ellis is an American screenwriter, hailing from a small steel town. Descended from coal miners, farmers, and schoolteachers, Sam saw a packed matinee showing of Star Wars on a cold February Saturday in 1978 at the Cinema I-II-III, and that was that.
Sam is always writing, in any genre, except on the Western Pennsylvania Sabbath - Steelers Sundays in the fall.