Trailer drops for Lindsay Lohan's 'Falling for Christmas'
Chord Overstreet co-stars with Lindsay Lohan, who plays an amnesiac, in the holiday romcom "Falling for Christmas." Credit: Netflix / Scott Everett White
Lindsay Lohan's first movie in three years, featuring her first starring role since 2013's "The Canyons," dropped its trailer over the weekend, with the actor introducing it personally.
"Happy holidays, everyone," the Long Island-raised Lohan, 36, says at the start of the 2-minute, 20-second trailer. "Christmas has come early this year and I come bearing gifts. Please enjoy the trailer for my new movie, 'Falling for Christmas,' coming to Netflix this November."
The film, first announced in May 2021, stars Lohan as an amnesiac hotel heiress falling for the single-father ski lodge owner (Chord Overstreet) who gives her shelter while she awaits rescue or for her memory to return.
"When people look at me, all they see is the spoiled daughter of the hotel magnate," her character, Sierra Belmont, bemoans in the trailer. "I just want people to remember me for more than my last name."
We subsequently see her boyfriend (George Young) proposing to her on a ski trip, atop a snow-covered mountain. The circumstances mirror that of hotel heiress Paris Hilton and her later-ended 2018 engagement with actor Chris Zylka on a snow-covered mountain during a ski trip. Hilton, who had become estranged from one-time friend Lohan during the actor's wild 2000s Los Angeles days, said in January that the two had reconciled.
"The doctor did say that if I did normal things, my memory might come back," Sierra, ensconced at the lodge, tells her benefactor. Then, as in the 1987 movie "Overboard," the template for modern amnesiac-heiress movies, she attempts to make her bed and do other everyday things, with predictably inept results. But soon, with no indication of a search for her, an existential unease sets in: "It's been almost two days and, what, no one's found me yet? I'm like unclaimed luggage," Sierra says without a trace of humor.
A snippet of Lohan performing the holiday standard "Jingle Bell Rock" follows, and then the tagline in on-screen text: "This holiday season, sometimes forgetting who you were means discovering who you are." The trailer ends with a slapstick bit involving a raccoon, followed by the Nov. 10 premiere date.
Lohan, who was raised in Cold Spring Harbor and Merrick, said on her podcast series last month that both she and her singer-model sister Aliana Lohan perform on the movie's soundtrack.
Lindsay Lohan recently has been in Ireland shooting "Irish Wish," one of two additional Netflix movies the streaming service announced for her in March.
