It was directed by Larry Peerce, starred Erik von Detten, and originally broadcast on The Family Channel during their first 25 Days of Christmas programming block.
[1] The film was remade into an ABC Family TV movie in 2006 titled Christmas Do-Over.
The film is set in the fictional town of Greenwood Falls, Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.) and stars Erik von Detten as Billy Jackson, a selfish teenager forced to relive the same Christmas every day.
[4][5] The film also stars Robert Hays and Bess Armstrong as Billy's parents.
Each December 25, he must face the school bully (Tyler Mason Buckalew) and must also get involved in his grocer father's dispute with his fat-cat uncle (Robert Curtis Brown) who wants to build a mega-store and ruin the local merchants.