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The new, original movie, Catch Me of You Claus, reveals a case of mistaken identity. This threatens to derail a rookie Santa’s inaugural Yuletide outing, with Italia Ricci and Luke Macfarlane in the lead. The movie is set to premiere in November on Hallmark Channel as part of the network’s Countdown to Christmas programming event. Read on to find out more about the movie, its plot and cast, and see beautiful images taken on the film set.
Catch Me if You Claus on Hallmark Channel
According to the official synopsis, it was the night before Christmas at Avery Quinn’s (Ricci) house when she was awoken to the sound of someone breaking in. She quietly creeps through the house to find out what the noise is about and spots a Santa-clad man (Macfarlane).
Avery jumps into action, tying him up tight with strings of Christmas lights, but he pleads for his freedom to be able to finish the night. In fact, the man in red claims to be Santa’s own son, Chris, who has to get going and finish his run. He said his dad will be angry and the kids will be sad to awaken in the morning to no gifts.
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However, Avery, an aspiring news anchor, believes him to be the Santa Crook who has been on the news. For this reason, she is determined not to let him loose, thinking she will take him to the police to tell them the crook is caught. Meanwhile, solving this festive crime wave will boost her career. However, soon Avery and Chris have much to fear.
A series of mishaps see them taking flight from the police and the bad guys while searching all night. The pair go from place to place as Avery starts to break this big case. Avery and Chris work together to figure it out and soon Avery sees she has nothing to doubt. Chris is who he claims to be and slowly the pair bonds, with each helping the other to keep pressing on.
Will Avery’s news story make it to air, or will she be late and left in despair? Will Chris make his deadline and deliver all the gifts, or will this Christmas be one that gets missed?
Where have you seen the cast before?
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Catch Me if You Claus stars Italia Ricci as Avery, who is known for her roles in The Imperfects and Designated Survivor. Meanwhile, Luke Macfarlane, who plays Chris, is renowned for many Hallmark movies and has recently been seen in Notes of Autumn and Platonic.
According to the IMDb page for the movie, other cast members include Katerina Maria (The Heiress of Christmas) as Misty McAllen, Michael Barbuto (Big Top Academy) as Tony and Samantha Brown (Holdout) as Talia. Meanwhile, Suzanne Cyr (The Wedding Planners) plays Sophie Ashburn, Jennifer De Lucia (Murdock Mysteries) stars as Mandy and Samantha Nicole Hart (Working Moms) plays Officer Billings. Other cast includes Kim Roberts (The Good Doctor) as Nancy Lee and Xavier Sotelo (Star Trek: Discovery) as Hewitt Vance.
Behind the scenes of Catch Me If You Claus
Catch Me if You Claus is from Muse Entertainment with Jonas Prupas, Aaron Prupas and Joel Rice serving as executive producers. Meanwhile, Michael Barbuto is the supervising producer and Evan Tussman is an associate producer. Shane Boucher and Caitlin Delaney are producers, while Bradley Walsh directs the movie from a script penned by Nina Weinman.
When does Catch Me if You Claus premiere on Hallmark Channel?
The new, original movie Catch Me if You Claus premieres on Thursday, November 23 at 8 pm ET/PT on Hallmark Channel as part of the network’s popular Countdown to Christmas programming event.
Readers, are you looking forward to this fun movie with Italia Ricci and Luke Macfarlane in the lead? Share your thoughts in the comments below.