⚘ True Love Blooms this Weekend on Hallmark!

Saturday, April 6, 2019:

It's ⚘SPRING⚘ in the garden with Hallmark's...

True Love Blooms

image: Hallmark Crown Media

Storyline via Hallmark: Vicki runs the community garden, which Chace, a developer, wants to replace with condos. Wanting to prove he’s not a villain, Chace shows Vicki the pride he and his workers have in their buildings. In turn, Vicki gets Chace to plant his own garden plot. But despite seeing the other’s viewpoint, they remain... click here to read more...

See the Premiere of True Love Blooms

Saturday, April 6, 2019

at 8pm/7c. on the Hallmark Channel

Encore Airing: Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 6pm/5c.

image: Hallmark Crown Media

*Visit my True Love Blooms page for even more details on this movie!

*And - if you're curious about upcoming movies, be sure to visit my TV Movie Schedule!

I hope you have a beautiful, blessed weekend!!!

Enjoy watching "True Love Blooms," if you get the chance! Here in the Midwest- we have buds, but no gardens, quite yet... so I'll be dreaming, along with many of you, of all the lovely flowers- yet to bloom!

Love and blessings to you! Net

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True Love Blooms - a Hallmark Channel "Spring Fever" Movie starring Sara Rue & Jordan Bridges

MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: True Love Blooms

Network: Hallmark Channel

Original Air Date: April 6, 2019

CAST:

Sara Rue ... Vicki
Jordan Bridges ... Chace
Aisha Duran ... Ana
Ray Watters ... Mr. Boyle
Tamara Austin ... Serena
Jan Neuberger ... Ms. Huard
Amy Locicero ... Marta
Andi Matheny ... Audrey
Vicotira White ... Ilya
Audrey Harris White ... Judge
Carol Saragusa ... Mayor Price
John Wright ... Handsome Partygoer
Jose Vasquez ... Alex
Niki Spiridakos ... Partygoer
Tiana Gowen ... Little Girl
Ashley Jones ... Teacher
Lawrence Collins ... Executive
Tracy Wiu ... Reporter
Isis Masoud ... Diane
Eric Salazar ... Mark
Terry Allen Jones ... Mr. Mack

PLOT:

Storyline via Hallmark: Vicki runs the community garden, which Chace, a developer, wants to replace with condos. Wanting to prove he’s not a villain, Chace shows Vicki the pride he and his workers have in their buildings. In turn, Vicki gets Chace to plant his own garden plot. But despite seeing the other’s viewpoint, they remain at an impasse. Then Vicki crashes a gala to ask the Mayor to declare the garden a landmark, and there she and Chace dance, enthralled with each other. Sill Chace’s bulldozers roll. Hopefully he’ll find a way to hurtle their impasse, which could be in the sky.

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*images via: Hallmark Crown Media Family Networks
Credit: ©2019 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Gene Page
Credit: ©2019 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Rod Millington

🌹 It's a "Garden Party" on the Hallmark Channel this Spring! 🌹

Tampa Bay Times is reporting a movie filming in St. Petersburg for the Hallmark Channel currently titled - Garden Party!

photo: SCOTT KEELER | Times - Left to Right: Actors Jordon Bridges and Sara Rue
image taken: February 18, 2019

According to the article, the film will star Sara Rue (Hallmark's "All for Love") and Jordan Bridges (Hallmark's "Holiday Engagement" and "Christmas at Holly Lodge") and the storyline, according to the Tampa Bay Times, was shared by executive producer Lincoln Lageson, who said... "Garden Party is about a woman who honors her father’s memory by continuing the community garden he built in St. Petersburg. But the future of the garden is threatened when a condo builder buys the property for development."

The description of this story sounds quite a lot like the storyline given for the film, "True Love Blooms" on Hallmark's web-site.

"True Love Blooms" storyline via Hallmark: "Spring is in full bloom when urban gardener Vicki fights to save her community garden from a handsome real estate developer. Both are caught off guard when it's not just the flowers that are blooming, but also love."

So... we will have to wait and see which title - Hallmark ultimately uses for this movie. Either one sounds refreshing and spring-y!

The article also states we should expect to see this movie sometime in April on the Hallmark Channel!

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Christmas at Holly Lodge - a Hallmark Channel Original "Countdown to Christmas" Movie starring Alison Sweeney & Jordan Bridges!

MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: Christmas at Holly Lodge

Network: Hallmark Channel

Original Air Date: December 3, 2017

CAST:

Alison Sweeney ... Sophie Bennett
Jordan Bridges ... Evan Hunter
Crystal Lowe ... Callie
Toby Levins ... Vince
Sheryl Lee Ralph ... Nadine
Audrey Smallman ... Zoe
Christian Convery ... Kyle Talbert
Alison Wandzura ... Meg
Adrian Hough ... Gary
Gerard Plunkett ... Sir Iain
Dave Collette ... Art
Aria DeMaris ... Lucia
Byron Noble ... Frank Dunlop
Arpad Balogh ... Mike Talbert
Matthew Mandzij ... Dan
Byron Noble ... Frank Dunlop
Latonya Williams ... Elsie
Robyn Bradley ... Mayor Judy

PLOT:

Storyline via Hallmark: Sofie Bennet feels the pressure as she struggles to pay the mortgage for Holly Lodge, which has been in her family for generations. Undeterred and keeping up with tradition, her annual Christmas celebration at the lodge is in full swing. Holly Lodge is a special place where Christmas miracles are known to happen. This year there is a new face that shows up. From the moment they lock eyes, Sofie is instantly drawn to Evan Hunter, the handsome and charming real estate investor. Little does she know he isn’t here for the holiday cheer. Sofie’s best friend Callie discovers that Evan’s trip is all business as he sent to scope out the property for his eccentric millionaire boss to purchase. Unexpectedly, Evan falls in love with the place and Sofie as well. Reluctant to believe in Christmas miracles, can Sofie save the place herself or will this be the last Christmas at Holly Lodge?


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*images via: Hallmark Crown Media Family Networks
Credit: Copyright 2017 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Ricardo Hubbs

LOVE COMES SOFTLY Movies Series on TV - commercial free!

Return once again to the prairie world of Clark and Marty Davis, starring Dale Midkiff and Katherine Heigl, in the Love Comes Softly Series, with characters created by author Janette Oke, and first brought to the small screen on the Hallmark Channel, by director Michael Landon, Jr.



Katherine Heigl and Dale Midkiff in Love Comes Softly.

TBN will air 10 movies in the series, leading up to Valentine's Day. Unfortunately, for those of us in the Eastern Standard Time Zone, they will be shown quite late, or early in the morning - depending on how you look at it. So hopefully you have a DVR, or something you can record them on - to watch at a later, or rather, in this case... earlier time!

*The collection is also Available on DVD.



Monday, February 9th, 2015:

Love Begins ... TBN ... 2:30 AM
Love's Resounding (Everlasting) Courage ... TBN ... 4 AM


Tuesday, February 10th, 2015:

Love Comes Softly ... TBN ... 2:30 AM
Love's Enduring Promise ... TBN ... 4 AM



Wednesday, February 11th, 2015:

Love's Long Journey ... TBN ... 2:30 AM
Love's Abiding Joy... TBN ... 4 AM



Thursday, February 12th, 2015:

Love's Unending Legacy ... TBN ... 2:30 AM
Love's Unfolding Dreams ... TBN ... 4 AM



Friday, February 13th, 2015:

Love Takes Wing ... TBN ... 2:30 AM
Love Finds a Home ... TBN ... 4 AM


*Times above are in Eastern Standard Time, being 2:30 and 4 AM eastern time each night. Central Time is one hour behind, which makes it 1:30 and 3 AM each night and Pacific Time is three hours behind... making the movie air times 11:30 PM and 1 AM each night.



*Love Begins and Love's Resounding (Everlasting) Courage (pictured above) are not included in the DVD collection set, but they are available separately on DVD.


*The only "Love Comes Soflty" movie, in the series, not being shown during this Valentine event, is Love's Christmas Journey. This is a wonderful movie, set at Christmastime, starring Natalie Hall, Dylan Bruce, Greg Vaughn, and Ernest Borgnine. It is, thankfully, also available on DVD.

Happy "Countdown to Valentine's Day"!

 

Enjoy all the stories of love and adventure in the "Love Comes Softly" movie series!

I hope after you watch, you can say...

"It's a Wonderful Movie!"

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*If you are interested in any of these movies on DVD, please click here.

January Jones and Logan Bartholomew in Love's Enduring Promise

 

Holiday Engagement - Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie

MOVIE REVIEW

Holiday Engagement

Network: Hallmark Channel

Original Air Date: November 27, 2011


CAST:

Bonnie Somerville ... Hillary Burns
Shelley Long ... Mrs. Burns
Jordan Bridges ... David
Haylie Duff
Sam MacMurray

PLOT:

Jilted by her high-powered fiancé just before Thanksgiving, and terrified of disappointing her demanding mother (Long), Hillary Burns (Somerville) hires David (Bridges), an unemployed artist to pretend to be her fiancé over the holiday weekend. She soon discovers however, that the hired replacement may not be a replacement after all – but the real thing.

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*Holiday Engagement is available on DVD!
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Love Finds a Home - a Hallmark Channel Original Movie from the Love Comes Softly series!

Love Finds a Home
DVD

MOVIE REVIEW

Love Finds a Home:

This is the Eighth Movie of the "Love Comes Softly" Book turned Movie Series. The books are originally written by Christian author, Janette Oke and brought to the Movie format originally by Michael Landon, Jr. (The son of Michael Landon - Pa from Little House on the Prairie.) However, this story was directed by David S. Cass, Sr.


CAST:

Sarah Jones ... Belinda
Haylie Duff ... Annie
Jordan Bridges ... Lee
Courtney Halverson ... Lillian
Michael Trevino ... Joshua
Patty Duke ... Mary

PLOT:

from Hallmark-

The story continues of Belinda (Sarah Jones), a rare female doctor working in a quaint Missouri town. When her longtime friend and colleague, Annie (Haylie Duff), arrives so that Belinda can watch over her in the last stages of her pregnancy, Annie brings along her mother-in-law, Mary (Patty Duke), a seen-it-all nursemaid whose homeopathic remedies and folksy wisdom are at odds with Belinda’s scientific knowledge.

As Belinda deals with the headaches Mary is causing, she must also address issues at home. While her adopted daughter discovers the joys and pains of a first love, Belinda and her husband (Jordan Bridges) find their own relationship is suffering over Belinda’s inability to get pregnant. Just as the town learned to put its faith in Belinda as their doctor, so too must Belinda learn to accept that the best guidance for her own problems may come from unlikely sources.

Movie Review:

This is one of the last movies in the Love Comes Softly Movie Series. I really enjoyed this movie, however I did notice that this movie held no ties back to the other movies. In all the other movies, either Clark Davis or his daughter, Missie Davis, made an appearance. I missed them in this one, yet it was full of plenty of drama and sweet moments of love and family... I enjoyed it very much!

Patty Duke was full of spirit and spunk! She was a great addition to the movie series. I loved her character! And... they did a nice job casting the role of Lillian... the little orphan girl, who is now grown up... and is the adopted daughter of Lee and Belinda. She had the same pretty red hair and fair skin of the little girl who played the role in the previous film. It was also sweet to see Lillian's relationship with Joshua develop throughout the movie.

Small Cautions- may contain Spoilers: There is a small cave in - in an old abandoned mine. Lillian is hurt, but is rescued and is fine. Belinda's friend and expectant mother, Annie, has great difficulty during her delivery, but Dr. Belinda and Annie's Mid-wife Mother-in-Law, Mary, help her deliver a healthy baby.

Another wonderful Family Film from Hallmark and the Love Comes Softly series!

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