"Finding Father Christmas"

"Finding Father Christmas" is part of the "Most Wonderful Movies Christmas" Hallmark series.

Miranda was 9 when her mother died in the midst of a Christmas play.  Miranda and her mother had traveled all over the United States for her mother's work as an actress.  Since she'd never told Miranda who her father was and there was no other family, some friends of her mother's took her in.

Miranda has a stable career in Seattle that does not involve the nomadic life she led with her mother but Christmas is always a sad time for her and she tends to work through it.  This year is different, though, when she gets a call about something of her mother's that has been found in a Seattle theater where her mother last performed.  A suitcase was discovered when the theater was being remodeled and an employee who remembered Miranda and her mother tracks her down to return it to her.

When Miranda opens the suitcase, she finds some items that puzzle her including a picture of Father Christmas holding a small boy on his lap.  This unexpected clue takes her to a small town in Vermont and a stay in an Inn over Christmas.  What she discovers there is the true meaning of family and of love.  I think this may be one of my favorite Hallmark movies to date.  There is a follow up movie that I will be looking for next, "Engaging Father Christmas."  pazt