Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane - a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries "Miracles of Christmas" Movie starring Alicia Witt, Colin Ferguson, Laura Leighton, and Mary McDonough 🎄

MOVIE REVIEW

Movie: Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane

Network: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Original Air Date: November 24, 2018

*Based on the book Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane by Mary McDonough. (Erin, from the television series, "The Waltons")

CAST:

Alicia Witt ... Emma
Colin Ferguson ... Morgan
Laura Leighton ... Andie
Jordan Dean ... Daniel
Mary McDonough ... Caro
Arianne Rinehart ... Rumi
Fiona Morgan Quinn ... Sophie
Owen Dammacco ... Marco
John Palladino ... Ian
Jill Larson ... Mrs. Jacobs
Blair Lewin ... Anne Marie
Jose Ramon Rosario ... Joe
Blair Busbee ... Maureen
Jack Hallett ... Rodney
Stephanie Berry ... Mary Bernadette
Debra Lord Cooke ... Grace
Claire Keane ... Young Emma
Gary Lindemann ... Cliff Reynolds
Jan Pessano ... Librarian

PLOT:

Storyline via Hallmark: With her parents passed, Emma returns home for one last Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane before the family home is sold. While doing an appraisal, antiques dealer Morgan discovers love letters hidden in Emma’s mother’s desk, and they’re signed with initials that aren’t her father’s. In researching the mystery man, and while enjoying holiday festivities, Emma and Morgan fall in love. But when Emma’s ex arrives, Morgan backs off. Then when he shows up at a gala with another woman, Emma is heartbroken. Misunderstandings abound during Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane, and the mystery of the love letters still must be solved.

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*images via: Hallmark Crown Media Family Networks
Credit: ©2018 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Tilly Blair
in studio - Credit: ©2018 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Michael Larsen

Mending Fences

MOVIE REVIEW

Mending Fences:
A Hallmark Channel movie, starring Angie Dickinson (“Ocean’s Eleven”) and Laura Leighton (“Melrose Place”).


CAST:

Angie Dickinson ... Ruth Hanson
Laura Leighton ... Kelly Grant
Shanley Caswell ... Kamilla


PLOT:

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Hallmark Channel:

Laura Leighton stars as Kelly Grant, a hard-nosed television journalist who is turned down for a big promotion at work. Angie Dickinson stars as Ruth Hanson, Kelly’s estranged mother, who lives and works on the family’s farm in the small town of Santa Ynez.

One day, Kelly is visited by an old friend who tells her of Ruth’s failing health and urges her to visit. When she arrives on the farm she finds out that the town is suffering from a severe water drought and that an out-of-state company is buying up neighboring farms to build a casino. Kelly uses her investigative skills to uncover a plot against the town and its residents. She also does some much-needed soul searching and comes face-to-face with the reasons she left home years ago and why her relationship with Ruth has since been strained. With the help of her feisty young daughter, Kamilla (Shanley Caswell, “Zoey 101”), Kelly charts a path to help the town, her mother – and ultimately, herself.




Movie Review:

This is a nice movie about coming home and making amends with friends and family. I loved seeing the relationship grow - not only with the mother (Ruth) and daughter (Kelly), but also with the grandmother (Ruth) and granddaughter (Kamilla), as well.

Kelly and Kamilla seem more relaxed in the country... while Ruth and Kelly learn to forgive one another, lean on each other, and come to terms with the past.

It is a very good story with beautiful scenery.



See or Skip:

See... it has a good message of love, family, and forgiveness.

Daniel's Daughter

MOVIE REVIEW

Daniel's Daughter:

In going home, Katherine (Cate) Madighan (Laura Leighton from Melrose Place) finds herself, her Irish roots, and a lot more!


CAST:

Laura Leighton ... Cate Madighan
Sebastian Spence ... Connor Bailey
London Angelis ... Seamus
Martin Doyle ... Donahue
Brandon Firla ... Jeffrey Lerner
Dorly Jean-Louis ... Talisha - Reporter
Derek McGrath ... Jim Cavanaugh
McKenzi Scott ... Marie Madighan


PLOT:

(from Hallmark Channel)

Meet Cate Madighan (played by Laura Leighton from Melrose Place), editor of Perfect, a magazine with a mission statement of helping readers reach for the brass ring in all aspects of their lives. Cate is the poster girl for the publication’s you-can-have-it-all philosophy. She’s beautiful, stylish, accomplished, famous, perfect –- and to top it off, she’s soon going to tie the knot with her billionaire corporate-mogul boss, Stewart Wallack, in a swanky wedding ceremony that promises to be the media event of the year. But the arrival of an unexpected package reveals that Cate’s life is not as perfect as it seems, not as perfect as even Cate would like to believe.

Movie Review:

Catherine's estranged father dies... just as her life is the busiest. She is in the midst of putting together her high society wedding to her billionaire corporate-mogul boss, Stewart Wallack, but feels obligated to fulfill her father's last wish - to have his ashes spread in her tiny Massachusetts hometown. Course, in going back home, she learns more about her father and herself. There is a bit of romantic intrigue between Cate and Connor Bailey, who is a lawyer in her hometown..

I found this Movie to be rather sad and long. Perhaps, if you have Irish roots, you might enjoy this film... because the culture of Cate's hometown is Irish. The more Catherine learned about her father- his life and honorable standing in the community, the more I wished that the story of his passing had been a ploy to bring her back home - and he would appear and they would reunite in a true Hallmark tear-jerking moment way... but that wasn't to be. The story was, in my opinion, pretty cut and dry. What you expected to happen - happened... nothing less - nothing more.

As I mentioned, Catherine is engaged to a much older man, who she soon realizes was more like a father figure in her life than a love interest. A deeper relationship evolves from her time spent in her fathers hometown with Connor Bailey. This, in my opinion, is the best part of this, sometimes slow, movie.


See or Skip:

See, if you love Irish Movies or simple predictable happy endings.