A rising ballerina with the Metropolitan Ballet faces a figurative and literal pickle when she is sent to perform in a small town Nutcracker, a jazzy version for which she is unprepared. Nor is she prepared for the pickle costume she will be wearing in the town’s holiday fair. With the help of the young daughter of a local reporter she learns to relax and “just go with it.” But can she be that spontaneous with the girl’s handsome father? 

SYNOPSIS:

Ballerina Victoria Weston is sent by her Company Director to perform The Nutcracker in the small town where he grew up. He tells her she will have to participate in some of the local activities like the tree-lighting but he neglects to tell her that she will do so dressed as a big pickle, or that the local Nutcracker is a jazzy version for which she is ill-suited.

An accident in which her tutu bag destroys a cell-phone introduces her to Max, a widowed reporter who is interviews her for the local paper. In the dance studio she meets a young girl who needs her help, and turns out to be Max’s daughter Laurel. With Laurel’s help Victoria learns to move with child-like spontaneity, something her years of ballet training have buried, and now she can dance the jazzy steps.

Max’s girlfriend, the mother of another of the ballet students, isn’t happy about his infatuation with Victoria. And Max rethinks his infatuation when he sees Victoria dancing with Igor, another star from the Metropolitan Ballet. It is Laurel who pushes both her father and Victoria to forget all their adult worries and assumptions and just follow their mutual attraction. In the end we see Laurel and her father meet Victoria after one of her stellar performances in the city.