It's Christmas Eve and a huge blizzard
has just shut down the airport, threatening to ruin holiday
plans for all stranded travelers.
Snowed in en route to their father's house, two
"Unaccompanied Minors"--dubbed UMs--Spencer (Dyllan
Christopher) and his little sister, Katherine (Dominique
Saldana), are ushered to the airport's Unaccompanied Minors
Room, a holding cell for dozens of stranded, parent-free
kids from all over the country.
Caught in the crossfire of projectile cupcakes and juice
boxes and desperate to escape, Spencer makes a run for
freedom along with four other UMs, who couldn't be more
different if they tried: spoiled rich girl Grace (Gina
Mantegna), trailer-park tomboy Donna (Quinn Shephard),
academic overachiever Charlie (Tyler James Williams) and
comic-book geek Timothy Wellington a.k.a. "Beef" (Brett
Kelly).
With the airport's peevish Passenger Relations Manager
Oliver Porter (Lewis Black), his lackey assistant Zach Van
Bourke (Wilmer Valderrama) and every airport security guard
hot on their trails, this group of UMs from cliques that
don't mix learn to ditch their differences and help each
other flee the clutches of airport authority.
Meanwhile, Katherine and the other UMs have been herded to a
nearby hotel to wait out the storm. Determined to reunite
with his little sister and fulfill her unspoiled vision of
Santa Claus arriving on Christmas morning, Spencer enlists
the help of his UM posse. Working together as an unlikely
family of their own, they outwit and outrun Oliver and his
crew. Plummeting through baggage chutes, rummaging around
unclaimed luggage and canoeing down a snow-covered hill,
they turn Christmas at the airport into holiday pandemonium
and, along the way, prove that the holidays aren't about
where you are, but who you're with.
©
2006 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
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