A Magic Christmas is a 2014 American family Christmas film on DVD, directed by R. Michael Givens.
To Jack Carter (C. Thomas Howell), family is everything. A once-aspiring writer, Jack was forced to set aside his dreams of becoming a bestselling novelist in order to take care of the family bakery. His focus on the family business, however, has caused his family to drift further and further apart. With his basketball-obsessed son soon off to college and his teenage daughter unable to put down her smart phone, Jack decides that this Christmas it’s time to take the family on a much needed vacation. Along with their dog Buster (voiced by Burt Reynolds), Jack and family head to Jack’s old Christmas vacation stomping grounds, Fatherly Pines, for some relaxing, social-media-free family time.
But when his old, uber-competitive friend Robert shows up next-door with his family, Jack’s competitive instincts kick in. The calm vacation turns into a wacky battle of the families culminating in the search for a Christmas tree only witnessed in legends and fairy tales.
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