A snowman that involves life is bound to heat Lacey Chabert’s coronary heart this winter.
The trailer for the Netflix movie, which was launched on Wednesday, October 23, begins with Kathy (Chabert) struggling to get by way of the chilly months with out warmth. “My life is a multitude proper now,” she says.
That’s, till one evening she walks by way of the city and encounters a ripped snowman. “Clearly, you’ve been doing all your push-ups,” Kathy jokes earlier than inserting her pink scarf across the sculpture’s neck. “ what? You retain it.”
Immediately, the snowman begins to rework into an actual particular person — and one with abs. “This vacation season is about to get sizzling,” textual content over the video reads.
The snowman named Jack (Dustin Milligan), who has nothing however a shawl to his title, begins strolling round city after stealing garments and boots. After encountering a girl who’s automobile is caught in a snowbank, the snowman crosses paths with Kathy.
“Excuse me. Can I allow you to?” Kathy asks, earlier than taking him to the physician’s workplace the place he explains that he was a snowman.
After admitting to Kathy that he did, in truth, steal coveralls and boots, she affords him extra garments. “However, you’re going to must strive them on,” she says, to which the snowman begins stripping. “Oh! No. Not proper now,” she yelps whereas overlaying her eyes.
The trailer cuts to the snowman being interrogated by the police, who suspect that he has “one thing to cover.” Whereas speaking with the officer (performed by The Workplace’s Craig Robinson), the snowman begins sweltering within the temperature.
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“If we may simply flip the temperature down,” the snowman pleads, main Kathy to query what is happening.
As he spends extra time with Kathy, the snowman seeks recommendation on tips on how to pursue courting — since, after all, he has by no means been in a relationship. Whereas seemingly speaking with Kathy, the snowman says, “I need to profit from the time I’ve with you.”
A collection of clips between the snowman and Kathy start enjoying, with textual content over the trailer studying, “He’s going to soften your coronary heart.”
As Kathy and the snowman virtually lock lips, she says in a voiceover, “For a snowman, you’re one heck of a romantic.”
Earlier than the trailer concludes, a clip performs of Kathy and the snowman watching TV as Lindsay Lohan comes onto the display screen.
“That’s so humorous. That appears similar to a lady I went to highschool with,” Kathy says, referencing the 2004 Imply Women film Chabert, 42, starred in alongside Lohan, 38.
Scorching Frosty, which was introduced in Could, is a part of the streamer’s 2024 vacation lineup. When discussing the challenge on Wednesday, Chabert known as the movie “actually humorous and lightweight and beautiful.”
“However there may be additionally a throughline of a number of coronary heart, and all of those characters are type of going by way of one thing — whether or not it’s one thing extra comedic or one thing extra deeply emotionally rooted,” Chabert informed Netflix’s Tudum. “I believe this film has a really particular tone to it.”
Scorching Frosty drops on Netflix November 13.