A holiday party gone sideways sets the plot of Fixing Up Christmas in motion, a 2021 Canadian TV movie built around a fixer whose real specialty turns out to be more than logistics.
What is Fixing Up Christmas about?
The setup is straightforward romantic-comedy machinery: a professional party planner known for rescuing impossible clients is hired to pull off a young company's biggest Christmas event of the year, one meant to charm the mayor and save the business in the process. What complicates things is proximity, the fixer and the CEO spend the lead-up to the party working side by side, trading the kind of banter that holiday comedies are built on. Director Jessica Harmon, who also appears in the cast, keeps the pace brisk and the stakes seasonal rather than dire, moving between planning-crisis scenes and quieter moments where the professional relationship starts to look like something else. It stays within the genre's familiar shape, decorations, deadlines, a party that has to go right, but leans on chemistry between its leads to carry the middle stretch.
About the cast
Natalie Dreyfuss and Marshall Williams lead as the planner and the CEO, with Harrison Coe, Bethany Brown, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Cynde Harmon, Allan Harmon, and director Jessica Harmon herself filling out a supporting cast that leans on family and small-company dynamics around the central pair. The ensemble reads as a close-knit production, several surnames repeat, which suits a film about people who already know each other well before the story starts asking them to fall for one another.
Context & significance
Fixing Up Christmas is a Canadian production from 2021 and sits squarely in the made-for-television holiday romance tradition, a genre that produces dozens of similar titles every season built around a professional pretext, a deadline, and a slow-burn romance. What sets it apart within that crowded field is a director who is also on screen in her own film, a dual role that is unusual even for a genre known for tight-knit, repeat-collaborator crews. The premise's double meaning, a fixer who ends up fixing something in her own life, is the kind of wordplay this subgenre trades in every December.
Watching Fixing Up Christmas on Ktime
Fixing Up Christmas is available on K-Time with a free account login, no purchase or trial needed to start watching. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available for this title, letting Farsi-speaking viewers enjoy a Christmas comedy in their own language or read along in Farsi, all through K-Time's Farsi-first viewing experience built for the diaspora.