Finding John Christmas is a 2003 television movie

Television movie

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 that first aired on CBS

CBS

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. The film is a sequel

Sequel

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 to the 2001 television movie A Town Without Christmas.

Plot

When a photojournalist (David Cubitt

David Cubitt

David Cubitt is a Canadian television actor.Born in England in 1965 to a Dutch mother and a British father, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia when he was six months old. He studied at Studio 58 there. He has starred in the Canadian series Traders and the American series...

) photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger "John Christmas". After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister (Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Anne Bertinelli is an American actress, best known for her roles as Barbara Cooper Royer on the television series One Day at a Time , Gloria on the television series Touched by an Angel and Melanie Moretti on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland .- Early years :Bertinelli was born in Wilmington,...

) becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank (William Russ

William Russ

William Russ is an American actor, best known for his role as Alan Matthews on Boy Meets World.-Early life:Russ was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and is the son of a naval officer...

). With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to find the stranger's true identity with the help Max (Peter Falk

Peter Falk

Peter Michael Falk was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo...

), a Christmas angel.

Filmed in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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, Canada

Canada

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, the film featured a scene of a burning school based on the real Our Lady of the Angels School fire

Our Lady of the Angels School Fire

The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire broke out shortly before classes were to be dismissed on December 1, 1958, at the foot of a stairway in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois. The elementary school was operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago...

 in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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 in 1958.

Cast

• Valerie Bertinelli
  Valerie Bertinelli
  Valerie Anne Bertinelli is an American actress, best known for her roles as Barbara Cooper Royer on the television series One Day at a Time , Gloria on the television series Touched by an Angel and Melanie Moretti on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland .- Early years :Bertinelli was born in Wilmington,...
  
  .....Kathleen McAllister
• David Cubitt
  David Cubitt
  David Cubitt is a Canadian television actor.Born in England in 1965 to a Dutch mother and a British father, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia when he was six months old. He studied at Studio 58 there. He has starred in the Canadian series Traders and the American series...
  
  .....Noah Greeley
• Peter Falk
  Peter Falk
  Peter Michael Falk was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo...
  
  .....Max
• William Russ
  William Russ
  William Russ is an American actor, best known for his role as Alan Matthews on Boy Meets World.-Early life:Russ was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and is the son of a naval officer...
  
  .....Hank McAllister
• Jeremy Akerman
  Jeremy Akerman
  Jeremy Bernard Akerman is a former Canadian politician, writer and actor and a former leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.-Biography:...
  
  .....Antonovitch
• David Calderisi.....Dr. Merkatz
• Patricia Gage.....Eleanor McAllister
• Michael Hirschbach.....Dr. Flynn
• Jennifer Pisana.....Soccoro Greeley
• Maria Ricossa.....Marcy Bernard

External links

• Finding John Christmas at CBS.com
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...