Christmas at the Chalet

About the movie

Despite not having worked as an on air entertainment reporter for close to two decades, Lex Riley has retained her celebrity status as the wife of on air sportscaster, Charles Hammond. That's why their recent divorce was so high profile, their split due to their lives drifting apart with Lex comfortable in her domesticity while Charles craves the excitement that fame brings. While Charles has his on air platform to show the world how well he's doing, their young adult son George Hammond wants Lex to increase her social media presence to show the world that she too is not crumbling under the divorce, especially as Charles has started to date his much younger manager, Liese. Also despite Lex and Charles having agreed that Christmas would be Charles' time with George, George encourages her at the last minute to join them - and Liese - on their Christmas ski getaway to Aspen. With a last minute change to Lex's Christmas situation, she accepts George's offer and is able to secure a reservation at the same upscale resort, Chalet des Neiges. However upon her arrival at Aspen, she finds that her reservation did not go through with no rooms available anywhere in Aspen due to the holidays. She ends up taking the only thing available, in the Chalet's staff quarters working as a chalet girl - despite the gender constraint and she no longer being a girl - whose duties are much like what she does at home. She continues with George's advice to put herself out there in the social media world as she documents her life as a "chalet person" with gusto. The Chalet is a family business run by American-born Frenchman Eric Tremblay, who came into the business to help his widowed mother, Celine Tremblay, upon the sudden death of his sister who previously helped run it. As Lex and Eric spend time together, they may help each other find what they want in their next respective phases of life. As they start to fall for each other, a path to a happily-ever-after is threatened by Charles, who may have found that his hasty decision to divorce was a wrong one.—Huggo