Summaries

Ellie is told by a fortune teller that she must resolve her past and make amends with all of those she ghosted before Christmas and discovers love in the process.

Ellie has a habit of ghosting all guys that she meets in dating apps as soon as they want to meet for real or after the first date. She work as a game designer and is very ambitious and often uses this as an excuse when she explains her ghosting habits to her family. At the company's Christmas party she meets a fortune teller that predicts that if she doesn't contact all the guys that she has ghosted and explain herself before the night at Christmas eve she will never find true love. Ellie has a hard time to believe that this is true but also not the guts to ignore it. Leading up to Christmas she gets the chance to promote an idea for a new game that she has and to help her she's assigned one of the company's developers, Charlie. Working with her he's also drawn into Ellies crusade to apologize to all the guys she's ghosted.—Devnull

Ellie Sanders is a character artist for a games software company, a job she loves despite what she believes is her creative mother Paula Sanders' disapproval in she not living up to her potential. Despite it being her favorite time of year, this Christmas season is a difficult one as task upon task adds up. First, in her family's Secret Santa, she has drawn her mother, Ellie feeling pressured to get a gift up to Paula's standard. Second, she has a week to Christmas Eve to develop her first games pitch. And third, but arguably most importantly in her mind despite not fundamentally believing in such and not believing she had up to that time done anything wrong, she is told by a fortune teller that she has to make amends to all the potential boyfriends she's ghosted by the stroke of midnight Christmas morning or else risk never finding true love. Ellie, a habitual ghoster, had believed that ghosting was a more humane method of breaking up as opposed to telling the "hurtful" truth, she only doing so with men she had solely met online up to the point of the ghosting. Helping her with this final task is the software engineer assigned to her for the games pitch, Charlie Brenson, who she has always viewed as the office slacker. In dealing with the work and ghosting tasks, Ellie begins to see a different side of "overqualified" Charlie. With the ghosting, she having more than valid reasons to break up with some of those men, she has to come to terms with why she truly does ghost those men for who there was some potential. Adding one more person to the list, she feels she also has to make amends to the one who she stood up in an in-person meeting, the one with who she truly felt a connection, as she starts to fall for Charlie, he dealing with his own recent heartbreak in being stood up himself by the one he thought could have been the one.—Huggo

Charlie Brenson, a software engineer with disarming charm and humor, accepts to help gaming firm colleague Ellie Sanders both with a character development week to Christmas Eve deadline and her private superstitious obsession. A fortuneteller convinced her she must make up with the many 'ghosted' (potential) dates she stood up or worse on dubious accounts. Charlie patiently helps her realize her motives are debatable at best, and seeking to make amends with some tact. In the process she realizes the root cause is her psychological insecurity, embracing the project, while Cupid strikes the pair. At the end of the list, one anonymous cyber date proves special for both of them, the ultimate challenge and possible prize.—KGF Vissers

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Keywords
  • brother sister relationship
  • chicago illinois
  • mother daughter relationship
  • cartoonist
  • gaming corporation
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Romance
Release date Dec 13, 2021
Countries of origin Canada
Language English
Filming locations Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Production companies Reel One Entertainment Champlain Media

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Runtime 1h 27m
Color Color
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