Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki) is dismayed to learn that attempts to promote local tourism have failed and his mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. In the weeks leading up to Christmas 1977, Maryanne Kinkade has fallen behind in her mortgage payments and is about to lose her small house in Placerville, a town ...

Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that ...

Thomas Kinkade—self-proclaimed “Painter of Light” who, by his own estimation, renders larger, intangible senses of “morality” into bland pictures of cottages and Christ-like Pinocchios to complement ...

The Christmas cottages have dimmed their lights while millions of little azaleas droop their Pepto-pink heads. Thomas Kinkade, king of landscape kitsch and self-billed Painter of Light™, has fallen ...

Thomas Kinkade has become a very rich man selling his paintings, many of them to Christians. But many believers also dismiss the work of the “Painter of Light” as commercial kitsch, and anything but ...