In the book, Stuart is a teenager who works at Target, and has a present middle-class family who love Christmas despite being Jewish.In the film, Julie is a straight A student, with a grandfather and a single mom, with her mother experiencing a life threatening illness, which greatly effects Julie's life. In the book, Julie is a teenager, with healthy and married parents, who is going through relationship troubles and is implied to be a good-to-average student.Adaptational Backstory Change: Both Julie and Stuart are subject to this.Even after Tobin and the Duke get together, they clarify that they still get to hang out with him, because he's that cool. He's nice, charismatic, a feminist, and just a cool dude. ![]() The mysterious Tin Foil Woman ( Joan Cusack) who drives the town snow plow/tow truck, and dispenses wisdom to those she assists along the way.Their unexpected return forces him to improvise by throwing a party at the Waffle Town. A aspiring DJ, who plans to throw a raging party at his parents' house while they are away. Keon ( Jacob Batalon), Dorie's coworker at the Waffle Town.The loss of her cell phone sends her into a panic. Addie ( Odeya Rush), Dorrie's best friend, who is addicted to social media, and becomes paranoid that her boyfriend is cheating on her.Dorrie ( Liv Hewson), a waitress at the local Waffle Town diner, who is upset that her best friend Addie is ignoring her, and that her love interest, Kerry ( Anna Akana) is still in the closet and refuses to acknowledge their possibly-burgeoning romance to her friends.His plans are delayed when they are invited to a college party thrown by the popular JP Lapierre (Matthew Noszka), who seems to have caught Duke's eye. Tobin, a shy boy who intends to tell his best friend Angie "Duke" ( Kiernan Shipka) that he is in love with her.Julie Reyes ( Isabela Merced), recently accepted to Columbia University, returns home on the train from Chicago, only to meet popstar Stuart Bale ( Shameik Moore), who becomes intrigued by her disinterest in him and decides to accompany her home.The film revolves around the lives of several high schoolers experiencing a Christmas-Eve blizzard in their hometown of Laurel, and the ways in which they re-examine their personal relationships. First and foremost, it's a great example of the benefits of taking your typical cliche Made-for-TV Christmas film and actually taking the characters seriously, while also demonstrating that such stories don't need to be straight or white. Directed by Luke Snellin, it features an Ensemble Cast set in the fictional town of Laurel, Illinois. A 2019 Netflix holiday Rom Com film, based on the book of the same name by Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle.
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