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Coming Home for Christmas (film)

2013 film by Vanessa Parise

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ27580895 ↗
Source-derived summary

Coming Home For Christmas is a 2013 Canadian Christmas television film written by Kyle McGlohon and Bruce Spiegelman and directed by Vanessa Parise. It stars Ben Hollingsworth, Amy Jo Johnson, Carly McKillip and Britt McKillip.

Plot

The story begins showing two sisters, Kate and Melanie (played by real life sisters Carly and Britt McKillip), growing up as very different girls in an otherwise close family. Their relationship is finally severed by Kate walking out on Melanie's wedding day due to her objection to the man that Melanie is marrying, whom Kate believes doesn't really care about her sister.

Five years later, Kate is jaded about family and romantic relationships but is working as an editor at a publishing house, which she considers her "dream job". Melanie is now alone in her house, pretending to friends and family that she is still living the life of a pampered wife. Their parents have had their house repossessed due to financial struggles and have moved into a townhouse where their mother, Wendy, helps make ends meet by hosting a preschool.

Wendy is especially hard hit when the bank sells their old home to a new owner, ending her wish that they may yet sufficiently recover to buy it back from the bank. Her depression leads to a separation from her husband.

Kate is driven by the separation of her parents to visit their old house where she is caught trespassing by the new owner, Mike, a handsome young war veteran who moved to the town to open up a woodworking shop.

Editorial summary

“Coming Home for Christmas (film)” enters the record as 2013 film by Vanessa Parise. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Coming, Home and Christmas can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Coming, Home and Christmas.
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“Coming Home for Christmas (film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Coming, Home and Christmas provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27580895. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coming Home for Christmas (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.