I'll Be Next Door for Christmas is a 2018 American comedy film directed by David Jay Willis and starring Nicole Sullivan, Atticus Shaffer, Jonathan Mangum, Beth Littleford, Regan Burns and Lil Bub in her final film role.[1] The movie was released worldwide on Amazon Prime and iTunes.[2][3]
| I'll Be Next Door for Christmas | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | David Jay Willis |
| Written by | David Jay Willis Jenna Park |
| Produced by | Jay Kogen |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Chase Bowman |
| Edited by | Pelham Grenville Julie Tseselsky Kirschner |
| Music by | Tamara Douglas-Morris |
Release date | December 4, 2018 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
It is the very first feature length film in the United States to successfully use Equity Crowdfunding to raise its budget, with 893 investors.[4][5][6]
I'll Be Next Door for Christmas is a story of a sixteen-year-old girl Nicky who lives in Santa Clarita, California with her family who are crazy for the Christmas holidays. Her family's very over-the-top Christmas celebrations have made her life miserable. At a special summer camp for musicians and actors, Nicky meets the boy of her dreams, Tanner (Bolanos). Tanner decides to visit her from Connecticut, along with his father, for the Christmas holidays. But Nicky doesn't want to get her family in front of Tanner, so she hires actors to play her parents and arranges a fake Christmas dinner in the empty house next door.[7][8][9]
Common Sense Media gave the film 3 stars out of 5.[10]