<Tr> <Th> Original release </Th> <Td> October 13, 2000 (2000 - 10 - 13) </Td> </Tr> <P> Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire is a 2000 made - for - television horror - comedy film directed by Steve Boyum and starring Matt O'Leary, Caroline Rhea, Charles Shaughnessy, Laura Vandervoort, and Robert Carradine . It aired as a Disney Channel Original Movie, premiering on the Disney Channel on Friday, October 13, 2000 . </P> <P> 13 - year - old Adam Hansen (Matt O'Leary) and his best friend Duffy (Jake Epstein) have some tickets for the Headless Horseman concert, and his sister 16 - year - old Chelsea (Laura Vandervoort) has a date with her dreamy boyfriend Peter . The only problem is, they are both grounded: Adam is punished because he did not do his homework, instead making up a story using an article from the magazine The Weekly Secret, and Chelsea because she called Adam a dweeb, which their mother, Lynette (Caroline Rhea), happened to hear . Chelsea and Adam will do whatever it takes to get their mother out of the house, even if it includes a chance meeting with a very mysterious man named Dimitri . Everything seems to go according to plan, until their 8 - year - old little brother Taylor (Myles Jeffrey) realizes that Dimitri is a vampire . </P> <P> His brother and sister do not believe Taylor, so he calls Malachi Van Helsing (Robert Carradine), the vampire hunter . The night that their mother goes out with Dimitri (Charles Shaughnessy) and Taylor follows them . Not wanting their mother to come home and extend their punishments, they follow Taylor and find him outside the restaurant that Lynette and Dimitri are at . Adam and Taylor make the vampire do the spoon test (a fake test made up by Adam to get Taylor to stop calling Dimitri a vampire). Afterwards, Adam discovers that Taylor was right about Dimitri being a vampire when he looks in the mirror and notices Dimitri does not have a reflection . So, along with Chelsea, he sets out to stop Dimitri, who puts their mother in a trance and plans to take her to his mansion . Meanwhile, Malachi Van Helsing arrives and begins to hunt down Dimitri, only to discover that he was being followed by Taylor, who (after learning the spoon test was made up by Adam) had also set out to save his mother from Dimitri . </P>

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