In a Holidaze: Book vs. Movie
Tiffany Paulsen's 2026 film In a Holidaze adapts Christina Lauren's book. Maddie Ziegler plays Mae, whose troubled holiday repeats until she can confront the choices and feelings keeping her stuck.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Christina Lauren
- Year
- 2020
- Pages
- 336Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 7 hr 40 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Patti Murin
Maelyn Jones has spent every Christmas at a Utah cabin with the same families, including two brothers who complicate her romantic life. This year's gathering leaves her facing the loss of that tradition alongside disappointments at work and home. When a wish sends her back to the beginning of the holiday, repeated chances to choose differently expose how much she has left unspoken.
- Director
- Tiffany Paulsen
- Year
- 2026
- Network
- Netflix
- Cast
- Maddie Ziegler, Rob Lowe, Graham Phillips, Elias Kacavas
- Genre
- comedy, romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Mae's Christmas at the family cabin ends in a romantic mistake, then begins again before she has a chance to put it behind her. Trapped in a holiday time loop, she tries different ways of handling the people and choices that have kept her stuck. Getting beyond the repeated Christmases means confronting what she wants from the life outside them.
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