The Christmas List is a 1997 TV movie, shown first on The Family Channel, but currently on ABC Family during their 25 Days of Christmas programming block. The story follows the life of the 35-year-old Melody Parris , a skilled perfume girl, who is living a somewhat flavourless life in Seattle, with a pompous, pushy boyfriend named George and an overbearing mother who lives right next door to her, who is obsessed with her getting married. It starts with another unsatisfactory day at work for Melody, but on the bus, her best friend Naomi tells her to make a Christmas list for selfish fun. She... starts to but receives a call from George, who is on a flight home from a business trip. During a talk with her mother that evening, she asks her if they could try to make their Christmas "Dickens-Style"; however her mother is reluctant to do this. Another neighbour's daughter, Amber Mottola, is a supermodel, and her mother harps on how Melody's sister is married, and so Melody storms out, saying that she's sorry she's not anything that makes her mother proud, missing her mother saying that she is proud.
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| Release date: | December 1, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Charles Jarrott |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Music by: | Brahm Wenger |