The Noel Diary

The Noel Diary is a 2022 American Christmas romantic comedy-drama film directed by Charles Shyer and written by Rebecca Connor, David Golden, Charles Shyer, and Richard Paul Evans. The film stars Justin Hartley, Barrett Doss, Bonnie Bedelia, Essence Atkins, and James Remar. The Noel Diary was released on November 24, 2022, by Netflix. Plot Jake Turner, best-selling author, is contacted by his mother Lois's lawyer to inform him of her death and that he has inherited everything, including her house in Connecticut. Returning home for the first time since he was 17, 20 years ago, he returns to clear out the hoarder's house and settle his estranged mother's estate. Jake reacquaints himself with the next-door neighbor Ellie, who brings him lunch the next day. He finds out his father Scott, who had abandoned him and Lois shortly after his older seven-year-old brother had died in an accident, had been at his mother's funeral hoping to see him. Ellie asks Jake to help her with a dating app. He quickly writes her profile and gets her up and running. Just as Jake discovers a diary, Rachel Campbell, a woman he has seen peering at the house ever since he arrived, comes by and introduces herself. She coincidentally has shown up at the same time in search of information about her birth mother, Noel, who used to be Jake's nanny.