'A Girl's Best Friend' Premieres January 4 on UP, Stars James Denton, Lilah Fitzgerald, Laura Mennell, Kirsten Robek

James Denton, Lilah Fitzgerald, and Luey in A Girl's Best Friend

UP movie A Girl's Best Friend premieres Sunday, January 4 at 7 p.m. ET. The film stars James Denton (Desperate Housewives, The Good Witch), Laura Mennell (Haven), (The Gourmet Detective), Kirsten Robek (Hell on Wheels) and Lilah Fitzgerald (The Pastor's Wife).

In A Girl’s Best Friend, Penelope "Polka-Dot" Daught (Fitzgerald) is a precocious 11-year-old obsessed with Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” With her single mother, Frances (Robek), struggling with chronic illness and money tightness, Polka-Dot is pushed into looking for odd jobs after school for extra cash. While sweeping up around the neighborhood coffee shop, Polka-Dot’s life perks up when she meets K-9 unit police officer Cooper “Coop” Boone (Denton) and his trusty bloodhound, Luey.