Spencer wants to be a filmmaker - but not the way it's laid out in his grandfather's will: Find an ancient movie star and film her giving Spencer a kiss. He's got to be kidding. Spencer dreams of filming fast cars, hot chicks, mobsters and drug lords, not frail old ladies. But Spencer hasn't met Gloria Lorraine, star of stage and screen, who just might make all his dreams come true.

When an aging Hollywood starlet invites her not-so-normal family home for the holidays, it is bound to be a Christmas no one will ever forget, no matter how hard they try. Her oddball family loses all self-control when a promising new director decides to join them for Christmas.