HALLMARK MOVIES NOW GIVES SUBSCRIBERS
ALL-NEW CONTENT IN AUGUST
Hallmark Movies Now, Hallmark Media’s fast-growing subscription streaming service, is adding 10 additional Hallmark original movies and season 10 of Hallmark Channel’s hit series “When Calls the Heart,” as it offers subscribers a fresh slate of programming.
Highlights of debuts on Hallmark Movies Now throughout the month of August
AVAILABLE TO STREAM STARTING THURSDAY, AUGUST 3:
ALL-NEW EPISDOES OF ‘WHEN CALLS THE HEART: SEASON 10’
Stars: Erin Krakow, Pascale Hutton, Jack Wagner, Kavan Smith, Chris McNally, Kevin McGarry, Andrea Brooks, Martin Cummins, Kayla Wallace, Loretta Walsh, Viv Leacock, Amanda Wong, Johannah Newmarch, Natasha Burnett, Ben Rosenbaum, Hrothgar Mathews
In the aftermath of the explosive ninth season of When Calls the Heart, Hope Valley residents have rallied together to create a stronger community than ever before, welcoming newcomers to town, including many friendly faces…and a few not-so-friendly ones, who will put the town at risk.
‘THE WEDDING VEIL EXPECTATIONS’
Stars: Lacey Chabert, Kevin McGarry, Alison Sweeney, Autumn Reeser, Karen Kruper
In the first movie of this sequel trilogy, Avery (Chabert) and her husband Peter (McGarry) are in the midst of renovating the old house they’ve purchased, which is proving to be a bigger undertaking than they anticipated. Avery has some exciting news to share with him but is waiting for just the right moment. Meanwhile, Avery’s mother-in-law Grace (Kruper) reconnects with a former beau, and Peter has concerns. Between that, the pitfalls of remodeling and navigating the politics of having a new boss at the museum, Avery is lucky to have Emma (Reeser) and Tracy (Sweeney), who offer support from afar as well as in person, when they decide a video chat won’t suffice. When newlywed Tracy returns the antique wedding veil to Emma, the friends may find that they haven’t seen the last of its magic.
‘LOVE AND SUNSHINE’
Stars: Danica McKellar, Mark Deklin
Nursery owner Ally (McKellar) has a passion for plants, but she also loves animals and has been fostering retired service dog Sunshine until her rightful owner returns from Afghanistan. Feeling the call to serve after 9/11, Jake (Deklin) has missed his family, and after two years, he’s eager to reunite with his four-legged pal, much to the dismay of Ally, who has grown to love the dog. A beautiful Golden Retriever, Sunshine gave Ally comfort when her fiancé broke off their engagement, and Jake, sensitive to Ally’s attachment, suggests they all go for a walk. As they stroll around the lake, Ally explains how Sunshine helped her get over her fiancé, while Jake reveals how she got him through a Dear John letter. Later, he offers to help Ally finish the deck her ex left in mid construction as a thank you for taking care of Sunshine. As Ally’s and Jake’s exes try to win them back, they all wind up at dinner at the same restaurant, and they both mistakenly fear their previous loves might win out. Luckily, Jake’s former girlfriend wants what’s best for him and at a Fourth of July party, she tells Ally that even Sunshine knows Ally should be with him. Kissing under a sky lit by fireworks, it appears Jake and Ally’s future together is set, until Jake’s team is called back into active duty and calls everything into question.
AVAILABLE TO STREAM STARTING THURSDAY, AUGUST 10:
‘THE WEDDING VEIL INSPIRATION’
Stars: Autumn Reeser, Kacey Rohl, Carlo Marks, Lacey Chabert, Alison Sweeney, Paolo Bernardini, Lynda Boyd
In the second movie of this sequel trilogy, Emma (Reeser) is sticking to her five-year plan, as Paolo (Bernardini) prepares to open a lace shop in Chicago with his cousin Matteo (Marks). On track to assume a promotion to department chair, Emma feels strongly that things fall into place before she and Paolo can consider growing their family. However, Paolo worries that that day may never come. When a crisis at home calls Paolo back to Italy, the couple must navigate busy schedules to make time for each other from afar. Missing Paolo, Emma bumps heads with Nancy (Boyd), the current chair of her department and begins to question her life choices. Thankfully, she has frequent calls, texts and visits with Tracy (Sweeney) and Avery (Chabert), who seem to know her better than she knows herself. She also has a friend in her smart and quirky teacher’s aide, Lily (Rohl), who provides Emma with a novel opportunity to get people excited about art, but it might mean giving up everything she’s worked for. Meanwhile, Emma cannot help but notice a spark between Lily and Matteo – who both happened to be touching the veil when they met. As Emma tries to get Lily to trust her heart, she must find the courage to stop planning her own dream life and start living it.
‘A SUMMER ROMACE’
Stars: Erin Krakow, Ryan Paevey, Kevin O’Grady
Samantha “Sam” Walker (Krakow), is the owner of her family’s picturesque ranch in Bighorn, Montana and facing the difficult decision of selling her land to wealthy developers or risk losing it in foreclosure. When high-powered New York real estate developer Richard Belmont (Paevey) flies his private jet to Bighorn and arrives at the ranch to convince her to sell, he gets far more than expected after the airport shuts down for repairs and he’s forced to live at the ranch with Sam, her foreman Buck (O’Grady) and his family. Everyone’s got to earn their keep on the ranch, so “city slicker” Richard soon finds himself feeding horses, milking cows and doing general chores around the house, but he’s also taken with the incredibly scenery and slower pace of life. Impressed by both his rugged good looks and willingness to embrace the country lifestyle, Sam takes a liking to Richard and hopes he’ll see just how important the ranch is to her. Despite the budding romance that develops between them, the pressure on Richard from his colleagues to close the deal grows and threatens to undermine everything he’s come to love since arriving in Bighorn, especially when his company goes behind his back to force an agreement.
AVAILABLE TO STREAM STARTING THURSDAY, AUGUST 17:
‘THE WEDDING VEIL JOURNEY’
Stars: Alison Sweeney, Victor Webster, Lacey Chabert, Autumn Reeser, Jane Asher, Ché Grant, Nicholas Banks, Katerina Geronikolou, Alexander Nicolaou, Andreas Karras, Nicholas Banks
In the third movie of the sequel trilogy, Tracy (Sweeney) is now head of the auction house, and Nick’s (Webster) restaurant is doing so well that he’s looking at expanding. Their success leaves the couple so little time together, they have yet to decide where to take their long overdue honeymoon, but finally settle on Greece. When a travel delay leaves them without a hotel room, they end up staying on a beautiful, secluded island at a fledgling inn run by capable local Tessa (Geronikolou) and her well-meaning, if bungling brother Xander (Nicolaou). When Nick discovers that Xander is filling in as chef, despite his cooking being unpalatable, he cannot help but to lend a hand in the kitchen. Tracy meanwhile meets Leo (Grant), a charming boy from a nearby boarding school, whose artistic talents are only rivaled by his knack for getting into trouble. Tracy cannot shake the feeling that Leo needs her help but finds her interventions unwelcomed by the school’s headmaster. Soon Tracy encounters a mystery when elegant Lady Dalton (Asher) and her grandson Colin (Banks) check in. Inexplicably, the veil – which Tracy had brought along to give to Nick’s sister – keeps winding up in Colin’s room. With sparks flying between Colin and Tessa, even skeptical Tracy may finally have to admit there’s something to the veil’s legend. As they spend time on the island, Tracy and Nick may also find that, though their honeymoon isn’t exactly what they had pictured, it might just be exactly what they need.
‘MY ONE AND ONLY’
Stars: Pascale Hutton, Sam Page, Stephen Huszar
Dynamic young executive Stephanie Hugues (Hutton) reluctantly agrees to appear on a dating show called “The One” that is filming on a ranch in Wyoming. Burned before by love-gone-wrong, nobody is more surprised than she when romance blossoms, especially when that unexpected romance is not with her on-camera reality show matchup (Huszar), but instead with handsome and cheeky rancher Alex Fletcher (Page).
AVAILABLE TO STREAM STARTING THURSDAY, AUGUST 24:
‘THE WEDDING COTTAGE’
Stars: Erin Krakow, Brendan Penny, Drew Henderson, Matreya Scarrwener
To launch Vanessa Doyle’s (Krakow) new book – Tying the Knot – A Wedding Guide – she holds a contest offering one lucky couple an all-expense paid wedding. The winning couple needs to get married quickly, as the groom is being deployed and the bride finishes grad school in just a few weeks. The couple chose The Wedding Cottage for their nuptials but unbeknownst to Vanessa, it’s been closed for years and is in disrepair. Evan Stanford (Penny), an artist who inherited the cottage from his grandmother, has been using it as his temporary residence while he waits for inspiration for his next masterpiece. He has no intention of reopening, but Vanessa wants her clients to have their dream wedding and is determined to restore the cottage. With only five weeks before the big day, Vanessa uses all her charm to convince Evan to reopen and build relationships with the residents of Stony Brook to create a magical wedding for the bride and groom. As Vanessa and Evan grow closer, it becomes clear how much The Wedding Cottage has meant to the town and how much more it now means to both of them.
‘SEASON FOR LOVE’
Stars: Autumn Reeser, Marc Blucas
It’s been years since high school sweethearts Tyler (Reeser) and Corey (Blucas) saw each other and now they’re back in Red Rock, Texas, competing in the Annual BBQ Cook-off. She just lost her job as a sous chef in San Francisco and he’s flying in from New York to be the festival’s celebrity chef. Definitely coming from different places in their lives, they still feel the same about being back home and cooking great BBQ. But even with three bestselling cookbooks, his own product line, three restaurants and his own TV cooking show in the works, Corey is reluctant to get back to all the big city hoopla. And even though Tyler has just been offered the position of head chef at a new Bay Area restaurant, she’s not ready to leave her hometown. It could just be the heat of the cooking competition, but sparks have definitely been flying between these two. In fact, right up until the final moment of the cook-off, no one knows who will claim victory…and it might just be the people of this All-American town who will come out the winners.
AVAILABLE TO STREAM STARTING THURSDAY, AUGUST 31:
‘FAMILY HISTORY MYSTERIES: BURIED PAST’
Stars: Janel Parrish, Niall Matter, Morgan David Jones
Sophie McClaren (Parrish) is a genealogist who’s an expert at digging up the past and bringing families together. When her close friend Jonathan (Jones) urgently needs to find a bone marrow donor, it brings his twin brother (and Sophie’s old flame) Jackson (Matter) back into her life. With Jackson’s help, Sophie must use her skills to track down the brothers’ long-lost birth father – a man they never even knew existed – in time to save Jonathan’s life. Ultimately, growing closer to Jackson on this search gives Sophie the push to finally explore the mystery of her own adoption.
‘GAME, SET, LOVE’
Stars: Davida Williams, Richard Harmon, Jennifer Khoe, Roger Cross
Taylor (Williams) is a former professional tennis player who retired from the sport following the passing of her mother so she could be there for her father and has been enjoying teaching tennis to kids at the local club. Her former doubles partner Ashley (Khoe) asks her to coach her, and her new doubles partner Will (Harmon), a player whose reputation and career are in need of repair thanks to his hotheaded antics on the court. Taylor reluctantly agrees and though she and Will clash at first, she’s surprised to discover a different side to him. Even more surprising is when Taylor finds herself entering the doubles tournament with Will after Ashley is sidelined by an injury. As Taylor and Will spend more time together while they get ready to compete, the pair learns they just may be a perfect match in more ways than one.
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