We hope you're ready to get in the Christmas spirit, as a brand new festive movie is on the way! Today, it was announced that the Stan Original Film Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story , will premiere Thursday November 21, only on Stan . The Stan Original Film Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story premieres November 21, only on Stan. Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story is an off-beat look at strained family relationships and reconnecting at a time when everyone is forced to come together.

Australia's viral comedic duo Vic Zerbst and Jenna Owen star alongside Damien Garvey, Mandy McElhinney and Tara Morice. The movie also stars Gia Carides who is best known for her role as Cousin Nikki in the My Big Fat Greek Wedding films. Watch the epic trailer in the video above.

 When her beloved family dog, Nugget, falls sick over Christmas, Steph Stool (Zerbst) must abandon her very elegant holiday plans with her boyfriend's family and return instead to her small coastal hometown to confront the chaos of her own...

less elegant family. In the week leading up to Christmas, each member of the Stool family must grapple with the mortality of the one thing that unifies them. When looking for their first long form project to make together, Zerbst and Owen found inspiration for a heartwarming, darkly funny Christmas movie in a real-life experience of Owen's – the death of her beloved family dog, Zuri, one Christmas in Wollongong, NSW.

Jenna Owen said: " Nugget is Dead is partially a love letter.