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WCTH 5 Productions,

Erin Krakow, Terence Kelly, Jack Wagner, Pascale Hutton, Martin Cummins, Daniel Lissing, Lori Loughlin, Kavan Smith, Andrea Brooks, Carter Ryan Evancic, Eva Bourne, Mark Humphrey, Aren Buchholz, Loretta Walsh, Erica Carroll

A strange peddler comes to the frontier town in this series with the promise of having just what you need. He manages to pull out the exact solution for the problems they are facing. Abigail Stanton (Lori Loughlin) is acting mayor, and is overwhelmed with trying to do the right things. But there is an accident and the train with all the supplies they need for their Christmas plans is unable to get through with will dash everyone’s hope for a great holiday. So the whole town comes together under Abigail’s lead to make their own Christmas out of whatever they have. Everyone opens their pantries and they put together a great celebration. Even Elizabeth who has been dreaming of the Mountie Ball all her life, and has to give up her chance for the good of the town, gets her own special Christmas gift.

When Calls the Heart is a series on The Hallmark Channel. In this Season 3 episode, a two hour Christmas Special was played. It’s a wonderful story, and the pioneer days feel very real. I have only heard bits and snippets about this series, but this really caught my interest. I suspect that the entire series may be well worth watching. But whether or not you are a fan of the series, or if you have never heard of it before, this episode is as good if not better than any of the batch of new Hallmark holiday films which is why I included it in my reviews. If you get a chance to see When Calls the Heart Christmas, please make sure you take the time to watch this. It was a wonderful and very interesting Christmas story.

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Sodona Entertainment Inc,

Lacey Chabert, Paul Greene, Andrea Brooks, Colleen Wheeler, Kendall Cross

Sara (Lacey Chabert) is an up and coming web designer for an advertising agency whose boss has been stealing her designs and claiming they are his own. She hates confrontation and lets him get away with it, but now it’s too much. At the company Christmas party, when he takes her latest idea, she can’t take it and leaves the party and plans to quit. But on the way out she bumps into Santa who gives her a special card with a gift, a free wish, which will last for 48 hours. Her wish is to be able to speak what is on her mind, and she returns to the party to call out the sleazeball who stole her idea. Before she knows it, she and her boss are on the way to a ski resort to meet the biggest client in company history, and she has to present the idea to the executive even though he’s a real jerk to her.

This is a new Hallmark Christmas Movie and is on their 2016 schedule of new films. Lacey Chabert is really good at these kind of movies. She has a Sandra Bullock kind of girl next door aura around her, and plays this role to a T. There are additional sub plots going on too. Among them, her boss really hates Christmas and is a real Scrooge. Meanwhile he is estranged from his family and a chance meeting with them brings out the “fixer” mode of Sara, and of course there’s a cute romance. This is a typical Hallmark holiday film, but a pretty good one, and a nice movie to wrap your presents by. See it all season on the Hallmark Channel.

Here is the Hallmark Channel webpage for this movie.

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Two 4 The Money Media,

Katie Findlay, Wyatt Nash, Andrea Brooks, Matt Hamilton, Kazumi Evans, Jaime M. Callica, Alison Araya, Troy Mundle

Molly (Katie Findlay) and Ryan (Wyatt Nash) are new college students in Belmont and meet on the first day and become study buddies. Molly is the daughter of a widower, owner of a huge corporation in Seattle and he has planned her life out for her, but Molly and Ryan are growing closer, but Molly’s father is willing to do everything in his power to destroy their budding relationship. In a side story, The Bridge is bookstore that plays an important role in not only the lives of Molly and Ryan, but many other people as well.

This story started out slow and sort of lost me at the beginning. I tried watching it 3 or 4 times and only got through the first 20 minutes or so without setting it aside. Finally I got to watch it through, and I’m glad I did. It is slow getting started, but it’s a really good romance story. The characters are very well cast, and the story does get rolling and turns quite interesting as it rolls along. The very end of this Hallmark film may hold the key to why it seemed so slow developing. This film has a cliff-hanger ending with a short add at the end to next year (2016)’s Karen Kingsbury’s The Bridge 2. So now we’ll get to wait a year to find out how it all turns out, although I bet we all can guess. It’s just a matter of how they get there along the way. All in all, if you are in to classic Harlequin style romances, this is a heavy duty dose of romance, that’s for sure.

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