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After awkwardly offering them a used toy that they reject, the officers leave. When Greg comes home, the police arrive to his horror, but it is revealed they were only asking for toys for the toy drive. He eventually finds the bin but is disappointed to find no cash. Afraid of spending the holidays in prison, Greg manages to do so stealthily, but when he's near the church, he realizes he asked for money at the Giving Tree earlier, requesting his gift to be placed under the recycling bin, and shovels the snow from their entire driveway to find it. Greg switches the power back on to the entire house, the blizzard ends, the snow is plowed out, and Frank comes home with food just in time.īefore Christmas, Susan asks Greg to take a gift to the police station to place in their toy drive box.

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The family finds Manny living luxuriously in his room surrounded by food, warmth, and toys without notifying anyone because, as Manny claims, nobody taught him how to tie his shoes. After several days, Rowley visits and tells Greg that everyone else in their street has electricity, so Greg checks the power box and realizes that the power is down in all of the rooms except for the room of his little brother Manny. At one point, the electricity goes off and his family becomes extremely cold, nearly running short on food. When Greg arrives home, he discovers a note from the police stating they visited to find nobody home and that they will return later believing the vice principal went back on his word and has sold his name to them, Greg contemplates how he'll have to avoid his arrest.Ī blizzard suddenly hits town, shutting the family in their home and forcing Greg's father, Frank, to stay in a hotel during work. The vice principal asks Greg if he would like to name his partner, but Greg refuses to avoid sending his friend into trauma and agrees to scrub the dye off himself.

Scared of getting caught, Rowley leaves a note at the principal's desk anonymously saying 'Me and Greg Heffley vandalized the school.' Greg explains to the principal that he hadn't meant to vandalize the school. After narrowly escaping with only their facial shapes noted, the school administrators and police search for the culprits: they ask the whole student body to tell them who did it anonymously. When a string of conflicts and failures prevent them from making their paper a reality, they decide to hang up posters that advertise their bazaar in their town, starting with the school, but rain causes all the ink to bleed on the school's walls, leaving green stains that won't come off. However, they discover the newspaper's advertising fee is very expensive, so they try to establish their own newspaper, The Neighborhood Tattler. They realize they need to advertise their bazaar and try to ask the local newspaper to do it. They first attempt to build a cardboard home-made version of Pac-Man, which fails to work. Greg tries some bad ideas for getting money until he finds out that he can buy 'Drummies', tasty fried chicken snacks that are sold at his school's holiday bazaar, for less than the school sells them for, so he decides to start his own holiday bazaar and invites his best friend Rowley to do it with him. Greg's mom, Susan, doesn't want to give him money to spend on the site and says he has to earn money on his own. Greg starts playing an online game called 'Net Kritterz' which is based around treating a virtual pet and requires paid features. Greg is afraid of this doll because he thinks that it might actually send information to Santa. In addition, his mother obtains a doll which she calls 'Santa's Scout' that is meant to keep track of how he behaves and make his behavior better. The story starts before Christmas when Greg Heffley wants to behave well to get really good gifts for the holidays. preceded by 2012's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, and 2011's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. It is the fourth installment in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series. The film also received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $77.7 million. The film was released on December 30, by 20th century Fox. Robert Capron, Racheal Harris and Steve Zahn. It stars Zachary Gordon and Devon Bostick. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever is a 2013 American Christmas comedy film written and directed by David Bowers in his live-action adaptation of Jeff Kinney's 2011 book of the same name.