Tagline: Six kids, snowbound in an airport on Christmas Eve, without supervision. Someone please call security.
Unaccompanied Minors movie storyline. 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 Saldaña), 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.
Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
Directed by: Paul Feig
Starring: Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Tyler James Williams, Dyllan Christopher, Gina Mantegna, Quinn Shephard, Rob Corddry, Donny Osmond, Jessica Walter, Dominique Saldaña
Screenplay by: Jacob Meszaros, Mya Stark
Production Design by: Aaron Osborne
Cinematography by: Christopher Baffa
Film Editing by: George Folsey Jr., Brad Wilhite
Costume Design by: Lisa Tomczeszyn
Set Decoration by: Jennifer M. Gentile
Art Direction by: Erin Cochran
Music by: Michael Andrews
MPAA Rating: PG for mild rude humor and language.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: December 8, 2006
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