{"id":10383,"date":"2023-12-18T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2025-06-08T04:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:37:37","slug":"chasing-christmas-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/chasing-christmas-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Christmas (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Genre<\/strong>:<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/genre\/holiday\/christmas\/\" title=\"View all posts in Christmas\" target=\"_self\">Christmas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/genre\/comedy\/\" title=\"View all posts in Comedy\" target=\"_self\">Comedy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/genre\/family\/\" title=\"View all posts in Family\" target=\"_self\">Family<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Year<\/strong>:<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/year\/2005\/\" title=\"View 2005\"  target=\"_self\">2005<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>MPAA Rated:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Viewer Rating:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span id=\"post-ratings-10383\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"1e59497f25\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_10383_1\" src=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(10383, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_10383_2\" src=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(10383, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_10383_3\" src=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(10383, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_10383_4\" src=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(10383, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_10383_5\" src=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(10383, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> (No Ratings Yet)<br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_10383_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-10383-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>IMDB Rating:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>5.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>It only takes one bad bulb to turn off the whole holiday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chasing Christmas<\/strong>\u00a0is a contemporary re-telling of Charles Dickens\u2019 classic novella, <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>. This ABC Family film, directed by Ron Oliver and written by Todd Berger, stars Tom Arnold as Jack Cameron, a man with a Scrooge-like personality.\u00a0Jack\u2019s disdain for Christmas stems from catching his wife with another man during their daughter\u2019s Christmas play, leading him to hate the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows Jack as he is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past (Leslie Jordan) and the Ghost of Christmas Present (Andrea Roth).\u00a0However, things take an unexpected turn when Christmas Past decides to stay in the past, causing Jack and Christmas Present to embark on an adventure to set things right.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a light-hearted and comedic take on the classic tale, with a unique twist that sends the characters on a wild ride through time.<\/p>\n<h2>Watch online for free<\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-youtube su-u-responsive-media-yes\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bjSbYG2MdTY?\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bjSbYG2MdTY\">Youtube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/475866\">TubiTV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/watch.plex.tv\/movie\/chasing-christmas?autoplay=1\">Plex<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only takes one bad bulb to turn off the whole holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride through time showing up at various times in Jack&#8217;s past. As they try and rectify the timeline and get back to the real present, some things are not what they used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,7,4],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-comedy","category-family","tag-24","wpcat-116-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10877,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions\/10877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/movies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}