Falling for Christmas: run time, trailer, cast, plot. All we know about the Lindsay Lohan holiday movie

Lindsay Lohan stars in Falling for Christmas on Netflix
(Image credit: Netflix)

Lindsay Lohan is back in the Netflix original holiday movie, Falling for Christmas. This is her first starring role since 2013’s The Canyons and fans are thrilled to see her back in action. 

According to Entertainment Weekly, Lohan has been busy since taking a break from Hollywood. She opened two clubs in Mykonos and Rhodes as part of her Lohan Beach House endeavor, which was filmed for the 2019 MTV reality series Lindsay Lohan’s Beach House.

Falling for Christmas is rated TV-PG and has a run time of one hour and 35 minutes. 

Here’s everything we know about Falling for Christmas

Falling for Christmas release date

Falling for Christmas is a Netflix exclusive that arrived on the streaming platform worldwide on November 10, just in time to get the holiday celebration started. 

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Falling for Christmas cast

Falling for Christmas stars Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls, The Parent Trap) as an heiress who loses her memory and Chord Overstreet (Glee) as the lodge owner who comes to her aid. 

The movie also stars Jack Wagner (When Calls the Heart, The Bold and the Beautiful), Olivia Perez (In the Heights), George Young (Malignant) and Blythe Howard (Powerbook IV: Force).

Falling for Christmas plot

Here’s the movie’s description from Netflix:

“A newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress (Lindsay Lohan) gets into a skiing accident, suffers from total amnesia and finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner (Chord Overstreet) and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.” 

Is there a Falling for Christmas trailer?

The official trailer for Falling for Christmas is here. Check out what's in store with this early holiday gift:

Lohan also released a series of photos for the new movie on social media on October 3, which is known as Mean Girls Day after the date was referenced in the popular movie when Jonathan Bennett's Aaron Samuels asks Lohan's Cady Heron what day it was, and the rest was history. 

(If you look at the comments in Lohan's post below, you'll see a cameo from Bennett referencing the movie!)

Falling for Christmas director

Janeen Damian brings her wealth of holiday movie knowledge to Falling for Christmas. She directed Hallmark Channel favorite The Christmas Waltz with Lacey Chabert in 2020 and GAC Family’s Much Ado About Christmas (2021). 

Sarabeth Pollock
Editorial Content Producer

 

Sarabeth joined the What to Watch team in May 2022. An avid TV and movie fan, her perennial favorites are The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, true crime documentaries on Netflix and anything from Passionflix. You’ve Got Mail, Ocean's Eleven and Signs are movies that she can watch all day long. She's also a huge baseball fan, and hockey is a new favorite.  

When she's not working, Sarabeth hosts the My Nights Are Booked Podcast and a blog dedicated to books and interviews with authors and actors. She also published her first novel, Once Upon an Interview, in 2022.