CHRISTMAS ISLAND – Directed by David Weaver – (limited spoilers)
Halfway through a private charter flight from Los Angeles to Zurich, pilot Kate Gabriel (Rachel Skarsten) runs into bad weather and is forced to land in Canada. Her passengers, the Sharpe family, have a business meeting scheduled in Switzerland and are not pleased with this developnent. Instead of Zurich, they find themselves in a place called Christmas Island in rural Cape Breton on the twentieth of December.
Helen Sharpe (Kate Drummond), her husband Thomas (Jefferson Brown), and their two children Cali and Finn (Britt Loder and Lincoln MacNeill) are met at the airport by Postmaster Jim MacLeod (Peter MacNeill) and his son Oliver (Andrew W. Walker) who was also the air traffic controller Kate spoke to while landing. (Airport scenes were filmed at Stanfield Airport in Halifax.)
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