Michael Campus directs a film written by Ken LaZebnick and co-produced by Thomas Kinkade. Jared Padalecki plays a young Thomas Kinkade, while Peter O'Toole plays his mentor Glen Wessler. The cast also includes Marcia Gay Harden as Thom's mother, Aaron Ashmore as Thom's brother Pat and Richard Burgi as his hard living but inspirational father Bill Kinkade. Look for great performances by Chris Elliott, Richard Moll, and Edward Asner.

Necessity is the mother of invention. In the 1980's, Maryann Kinkade is behind in her mortgage payments and about to lose her small house in Placerville, a town in California's gold country in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Her son Thom, who's attended art school and is in his 20s, determines to make the transition from amateur to professional painter to help save the family's home. He seeks advice from an aging mentor.