Best Christmas Party Ever

Twenty-something Jennie Stanton is the second in command at Petra's Parties, New York City's preeminent events planning company. The company has long held the contract to organize Tyrell's Toy Store's Christmas party, which is open to the public and which at its core provides Christmas cheer to those less fortunate. Arthur Tyrell, the store's original owner, gave Jennie's father a job when Jennie was a child, at a time when the Stantons' outlook was at its most bleak. It is her remembrances of the parties as a child and her fondness for Arthur Tyrell that made Jennie want to become an events planner, and why Tyrell's is the job she looks the most forward to year after year. Arthur Tyrell has sold the store to a conglomerate called Piedmont, which will continue with the parties. Piedmont's liaison on this file, Todd Perry, seems more interested in Jennie as a woman than as an events planner, largely leaving the details of the party to her. Petra's Parties has another major shake-up when Petra announces at the beginning of this Christmas season that she will be retiring after Christmas. She has brought in her fraternal nephew, Nick Forbes, to help at the company this season, Petra wanting Jennie to show him the ropes. This request does not sit well with Jennie as Nick's easy going and off the cuff style, largely an extension of him being an actor, does not mesh with her more detail-oriented focus. Jennie's worst nightmare comes to pass when she eventually learns that Petra plans to hand over the reins of the company to Nick rather than to her, which was her expectation before Nick came into the picture. Nick, on the other hand, wants to learn and has nothing against Jennie whatsoever. He sees this opportunity as a means to lead a more stable life than the struggle of going on audition after audition. He even has Jennie's back, believing Todd to be nothing more than a player. Although continually butting heads at the beginning, Jennie slowly warms to the strengths that Nick has in dealing with customers, that innate free-spirited charm which she admits she doesn't have. But the true test of if they can indeed be a team ends up being Piedmont, Todd who does have specific ideas of what he envisions the party to be, which is not what has traditionally been done. Jennie and Nick have to find a way to retain the true meaning of Christmas at Tyrell's while either getting Todd and Piedmont on board or circumventing Piedmont's wants.