“People have always said that we look like brothers, so I thought, ‘why don’t we play brothers in a movie?’”
This was the underlying idea that led Jonathan Bennett to reach out to Brandon Routh about starring in the holiday movie A Keller Christmas Vacation.
In the film, Routh plays oldest brother Cal to Bennett’s Dylan, with Eden Sher as their younger sister, Emory, as the Keller kids find themselves taking a river cruise with their parents Anne and Ben, down the Danube River, touring beautiful European Christmas Markets and towns along the way.
The one problem? The very different siblings, who are each going through their own personal life challenges, have naturally gone in separate directions over the years and the idea of spending 10 days cooped up on a cruise together makes each Keller child cringe.
But, the trip turns out to be a glorious once-in-a-lifetime experience full of missed connections, new friendships, stunning vistas, relationship upheaval, budding romances, shipboard games, family bonding, and a secret that brings them all together in time for Christmas.
“Brandon and I have known each other since about 2000, and when we created this movie, I was like, ‘if I have an older brother, it has to be Brandon,’
Wacky ‘A Keller Christmas Vacation’ Is ‘Hallmark’s Version Of The Griswolds,’ Says Movie’s Creator
