“When an uptight accountant agrees to spend Christmas with his fiance’ and her parents, he ends up in the last place he would ever want to be, a new age hippy commune, and must learn to accept their free spirit lifestyle or escape and risk losing his future bride.”

Good points all around, I think I could use 'holidays' instead of Christmas and have the title be 'Hippy New Year' instead of 'Hippy Christmas'

The winter solstice could work. Xmas is the ancient Roman holiday Saturnalia baptized as a Christian holiday. (Nobody knows when Christ was actually born.) The Roman holiday celebrated the passage of the winter solstice; days would start getting longer instead of shorter. The Saturnalia was quite a time for booze and bawdy merriment.

But most people won't get the reference or will be confused. So for the sake of simplicity, I chose rite of spring.

The winter solstice could work. Xmas is the ancient Roman holiday Saturnalia baptized as a Christian holiday. (Nobody knows when Christ was actually born.) The Roman holiday celebrated the passage of the winter solstice; days would start getting longer instead of shorter. The Saturnalia was quite a time for booze and bawdy merriment.

But most people won't get the reference or will be confused. So for the sake of simplicity, I chose rite of spring.

If you decide to keep it Christmas, it could show his inflexibility as they were willing to celebrate something they thought was important to him.

It can be be the winter soltice, which is close to christmas (21-22 december). This can easily generate some gags and misunderstandings at the beginning of the movie.

Please write this movie. I'm enthousiaste about your idea.

dpg, thanks for the impute. pretty solid re-write.

Good points FFF, I do think the logline would be stronger without he ends up in the last place he would ever want to be? I was debating whether to add that line or not.

A conservative, uptight accountant's engagement to the daughter of hippies is in jeopardy when he attends their new age holiday, a 'Rite of Spring', drugs, sex and rock and roll orgy.

Xmas is staid. And the stakes are higher than just whether he survives: can their relationship survive?

A conservative, uptight accountant's engagement to the daughter of hippies is in jeopardy when he attends their new age holiday, a 'Rite of Spring', drugs, sex and rock and roll orgy.

Xmas is staid. And the stakes are higher than just whether he survives: can their relationship survive?