A city-run skating rink and the woman who has poured her competitive dreams into keeping it open sit at the heart of this 2020 holiday romance.
What is Christmas on Ice about?
Courtney Bennett gave up a shot at national figure skating competition years ago, and now she spends her winters managing the public rink that first taught her to skate. When the mayor decides the rink costs the city too much to keep running, Courtney sets out to change his mind before the doors shut for good. Her charm offensive on the mayor goes nowhere, so she turns instead to Noah Tremblay, a retired professional hockey player raising a daughter on his own, who has just opened a rival indoor skating center across town. Their partnership starts as pure strategy — two rink operators pooling resources to keep ice under both their roofs — but the closer the holiday deadline gets, the harder it becomes for either of them to treat the other as competition. Skating lessons, community fundraisers and a lot of shared hot chocolate later, Courtney and Noah find themselves fighting for more than a building.
About the cast
The ensemble around Courtney and Noah includes Abigail Klein, Ryan Cooper, Caroline Portu, Will Lyman, Matthew Grimaldi, Meara Mahoney-Gross, Rena Maliszewski and Naheem Garcia, filling out the rink regulars, city officials and family members who orbit the two leads through the film's fundraising drive.
Context & significance
Christmas on Ice sits comfortably inside the crowded field of American made-for-television holiday romances, a genre built around small-town stakes, a countdown to December 25th and two leads who start out as rivals. Director John Stimpson leans on ice rinks rather than bakeries or Christmas tree farms as his setting, which gives the film's central conflict — a public facility threatened with closure — a slightly more grounded shape than the genre's usual plot engines. The 2020 production keeps its cast largely on and around the rink, using skating routines in place of the genre's more familiar montages.
Watching Christmas on Ice on Ktime
K-Time carries Christmas on Ice with Persian dubbing, so viewers who prefer to watch in Farsi can follow Courtney and Noah's story without switching to the original English audio. Streaming the film only requires a free K-Time account login; no separate purchase or offer applies beyond that. The platform's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for diaspora audiences to browse straight to seasonal romances like this one alongside the rest of the holiday catalogue.