Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas
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Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas, also known as The Christmas Cottage, is a Michael Campus film released on November 11, 2008 on DVD. It tells the story of the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade is an American painter of popular and commercial realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas Kinkade Company...

's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.

Cast

  • Jared Padalecki
    Jared Padalecki
    Jared Tristan Padalecki is an American actor. He grew up in Texas and came to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as in several Hollywood films, including New York Minute and House of Wax...

     as Thomas Kinkade
  • Aaron Ashmore
    Aaron Ashmore
    Aaron Robert Ashmore is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for his role as Jimmy Olsen in Smallville and as Steve Jinks in Warehouse 13. He is the twin brother of actor Shawn Ashmore.-Career:...

     as Pat Kinkade
  • Marcia Gay Harden
    Marcia Gay Harden
    Marcia Gay Harden is an American film and theatre actress. Harden's breakthrough role was in Miller's Crossing and then The First Wives Club which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the hit comedy Flubber and Meet Joe Black...

     as Maryanne Kinkade
  • Richard Burgi
    Richard Burgi
    Richard William Burgi is an American film and television actor. He's best known for the roles of Det. Jim Ellinson on The Sentinel and as Karl Mayer on Desperate Housewives.-Personal life:...

     as Bill Kinkade
  • Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole
    Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...

     as Glen Wesman
  • Chelan Simmons
    Chelan Simmons
    Chelan Simmons is a Canadian actress, professional model and performer.-Early life:Simmons was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the middle child of three .-Career:...

     as Miss Placerville 1977
  • Tegan Moss
    Tegan Moss
    Tegan Moss is a Young Artist Award-nominated Canadian actress appearing in film and television.Moss was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has two brothers, Rory Moss, and actor Jesse Moss. Her given name is of Welsh origin, meaning "fair one" and pronounced TEG-ann...

     as Nanette
  • Chris Elliott
    Chris Elliott
    Christopher Nash "Chris" Elliott is an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his comedic sketches on Late Night with David Letterman, starring in the cult comedy series Get a Life and for his recurring role as Peter MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond...

     as Ernie
  • Kiersten Warren
    Kiersten Warren
    Kiersten Nicolla Dale Warren is an American actress, best known for her role as Alex Tabor on Saved by the Bell: The College Years and as Nora Huntington on season 3 of Desperate Housewives.-Life and career:...

     as Tanya, Miss Placerville 1974
  • Gina Holden
    Gina Holden
    - Early life :Holden was born in the small town of Smithers, British Columbia, Canada, and moved often while growing up. With every move, Holden would join whatever community group she could so she could follow her passion for acting. At fifteen, she was signed to a modeling contract and moved to...

     as Hope
  • Jay Brazeau
    Jay Brazeau
    Jay Brazeau is a notable Canadian actor and voice actor. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.-Career:His credits include voicing Richard Condie's Oscar-nominated animated short La Salla. He also appeared in two of the first season episodes of Highlander: The Series in 1992...

     as Mr. Rosa
  • Geoffrey Lewis
    Geoffrey Lewis
    Geoffrey Lewis is an American character actor.His filmography includes television shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent and My Name is Earl, as well as films such as Down in the Valley, alongside Edward Norton, The Butcher, alongside Eric Roberts, Maverick, alongside Mel Gibson, and When...

     as Butch
  • Malcolm Stewart
    Malcolm Stewart (actor)
    Malcolm Stewart is an Canadian film actor. Stewart graduated from the University of Vermont.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

     as Lloyd
  • Gabrielle Rose as Evelyn
  • Richard Moll
    Richard Moll
    Charles Richard Moll is an American actor and voice artist,best known for playing Bull Shannon, the bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1983 to 1992...

     as Big Jim
  • Charlotte Rae
    Charlotte Rae
    Charlotte Rae is a prolific American character actress of stage, comedienne, singer and dancer, who in her six decades of television is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life...

     as Vesta
  • Chang Tseng as Mr. Chang
  • Nancy Robertson
    Nancy Robertson
    Nancy Robertson is a Canadian actress, best known for portraying Wanda Dollard of the Canadian television series Corner Gas, and for her role as Millie Upton in the series Hiccups.-Life and career:...

     as Deputy Hornbuckle
  • Edward Asner as Sidney

Pushed Back

The film's theatrical release date had been pushed back for a full year. It was originally scheduled for a December 2007 release, but final edits and music rights delayed the opening. While most movies suffering a delayed release would have no trouble opening a month, two, three or four after the original release date, Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas, being a Christmas holiday season film, had to wait an entire year.
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