I'll Be Home for Christmas (film)

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I'll Be Home for Christmas is a 1998 Christmas-themed movie.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas stars as a college student Jake Wilkinson attending school in California who has hardly ever been home for Christmas.

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A few days before Christmas Eve, his father offers to give him a vintage car if Jake is home by 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve (when the family has dinner). Jake prepares to go; however, a group of bullies (who did not get a cheat list that Jake was supposed to provide for them) leave him in the middle of the desert dressed as Santa Claus. Now, Jake has only three days to make it to New York if he wants the car.

The film was directed by Arlene Sanford.

Also stars Jessica Biel, who plays Allie, his girlfriend, who lives near his hometown in New York, attending the same college, but is returning home of the holidays, and Adam LaVorgna,who played the ex-boyfriend, of Jessica Biel's character Mary Camden, who both starred in 7th Heaven.