After their parents are killed in a terrible accident, the four McMurrin children live with their loving Aunt Martha. Martha wants to adopt the children but the town’s bitter old banker stands in their way. However, the children’s courage and ingenuity triumph and they become a family just before the holidays.

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.