Two of the 90’s biggest teen heart throbs, Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement and Jessica Biel from 7th Heaven, co-starred in this Christmas family comedy movie. I’ll Be Home for Christmas filmed around British Columbia from April to June 1998 and was released that November in time for the holiday season.
What would you do if you were promised a 1957 Porsche for getting home by Christmas Eve? But then you get stranded in the desert in a Santa Claus suit..
The Christmas road trip flick also starred Adam LaVorgna, Gary Cole, Eve Gordon, Sean O’Bryan and Andrew Lauer. The movie, which was a box office bomb, was directed by Emmy-nominated Arlene Sanford (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal). It was considered a box office bomb having grossed less than half of its production budget of $30 million USD.
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I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Filming locations around the province included Fort Langley, Cloverdale, North Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Richmond and Vancouver. Canmore, Alberta also got in on the action as well as two locations in California: the San Bernardino National Forest and Highway 14 near Red Rock Canyon State Park.
British Columbia filming locations doubled up as California, New York, Nebraska and Wisconsin in the movie. Richmond’s Fantasy gardens played the exterior of Studelstrasse Inn while Fort Langley hosted the 5k marathon with Santa Claus.
Sources: IMDb, Box Office Mojo, Inside Vancouver
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