A Dad for Christmas (also known as Me and Luke) is a Lifetime original movie, produced for CTV by Shaftesbury, that premiered on December 9, 2006. It won the 2007 DGC Craft Award for Best Family TV Movie.
Summary[]
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“ | Me and Luke is a family story about a young father and his newborn son. Matt, who is nineteen, goes to the hospital to see his baby. At the hospital, he discovers, his young girlfriend has already made arrangements for a couple to the adopt their baby boy. Matt has no family and when he sees Luke for the first time, like fathers everywhere, he falls in love with him. He finally has made the connection he's longed for. With the adoption imminent and no means to stop it - Matt takes Luke out of the hospital to his grandmother's house. The three form an off-kilter family unit. But can Matt and Luke win against the odds and stay together as a family…? | ” |
— Shaftesbury |
Cast[]
Actor/actress | Character |
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Louise Fletcher | Glennie |
Kristopher Turner* | Matt Blessing |
Jack Shepherd | Bert |
Lindsay Ames | Pam |
Emma Taylor-Isherwood | Megan Eubanks |
Catherine Disher | Beverley |
Daniel Kash | Jim Benson |
Lachlan Murdoch | Charlie Benson |
Carolyn Dunn | Lisa |
Sean McCann | Judge Mease |
Philip Akin | Richard |
Matt Baram | Young Father |
Sarah Robichaud | Ward Nurse |
Sandi Ross | Barb |
Patrick Garrow | Officer |
Dino Bellisario | Henry Duncan |
Joanne Latimer | Barb Peterson |
Toni Grates | Kate Duncan |
Karen Ivany | Haley Novak |
Miranda Edwards | Young Nurse |
Lynn Weintraub | Doctor |
Jacqueline McLeod | Marge |
James Kirchner | Mr. Grant |
Ted Ludzik | Foreman |
* - Nominated for the 2007 Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Program