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Jennifer Love Hewitt Made a Christmas Movie to Help Process Her Grief
Without her mom, the “magic” of Christmas seemed lost. Enter The Holiday Junkie.
Hewitt has memories of her mother stringing up Christmas lights to lift her spirits on a bad day and surprising the family by dropping a blizzard of fake snow on their front yard. The Holiday Junkie features all of the expected genre tropes and story beats of a Christmas movie — like the feverish cookie baking, the meddlesome friends, the ominous travel delays, and the emotional tug-of-war between a sentimental soul and a hot grinch — but it is also disarmingly heartfelt. Brian being in it and me directing it were pretty much the last two pieces of the puzzle before we went into filming and I think only because we had so much other stuff to do — working on the script, making sure we could shoot it in L.A. because it had to be done in the time between me wrapping 9-1-1 and then going very quickly back into it.
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