It's turning out to be a pretty rotten Christmas for the Saunders family. Having just moved to a new city from Los Angeles, they have no friends, no money and, with the exception of the bright-eyed Mary, no Christmas spirit. To make matters worse, their mother is stuck in L.A., stranded by airline overbookings. So, the Christmas shopping duties fall on Dad and the gloomy kids. Things start looking a bit more like Christmas when 12-year old Brian and 6-year old Mary find a satchel of money at the local mall and they launch a Yuletide shopping spree...that is, until the crooks who counterfeited the money chase them through the mall packed with holiday shoppers. 这是一个非常烂的圣诞桑德斯家族。刚刚从洛杉矶搬到一个新的城市,他们没有朋友,没有钱,异常明亮的眼睛玛丽,没有圣诞节的精神。为了使事情变得更糟的是,他们的母亲是停留在LA,滞留航空公司overbookings。因此,在圣诞购物的职责落在爸爸和悲观的孩子。事情开始看起来有点更像是圣诞节的时候,12岁的布赖恩和6岁的玛丽找到了挎包的钱在当地的商场,他们推出一个圣诞节购物狂潮......这是骗子伪造的货币追逐,直到他们通过在商场挤满了假日购物者。