Love in Winterland

Posted January 11, 2020 by karenbaron in Hallmark T.V. Movie, Movie Review / 0 Comments

Format: T.V. Movie

Love in Winterland

Network: Hallmark

Director: Pat Williams

Written by: Neal Dobrofsky & Tippi Dobrofsky

Production Credit: Alice Road Productions Ltd.

Plot Summary:

Los Angeles marketing executive Ally is a finalist on a hugely popular TV dating show who is sent to her hometown in snowy Vermont for a final televised date with bachelor Tanner. However, upon arriving home, she encounters her high school sweetheart Brett who now owns the historic inn where Ally, Tanner, and the production crew are all staying. When the show producer discovers Brett’s unrequited affection for Ally, she helps stoke their old feelings for each other, creating a love triangle that forces Ally to re-think her choices in life and decide what’s truly important to her.

Cast:

Italia Ricci (Ally)
Chad Michael Murray (Brett)
Jack Turner (Tanner)
Aliyah O’Brien (Lauren Burns)
Wanda Cannon (Molly)
Michael Kopsa (Tom Wilson)
Brittney Wilson (Rosie)
Serge Houde (Walter)
Edwin Perez (Sam)
Trish Allen (Darla)
Teagan Vincze (Helene)
Kirsten Robek (Trish Turner)
Gelsea Mae (Ally’s Co-Worker)
Benjamin Wilkinson (Host)
Angela Case (Lola)
Stefania Indelicato (Ruth)
Christie Burke (Editor)

My Rating:

My Thoughts:

Love in Winterland is the second movie that I have watched with Italia Ricci, and she is a great actress. Ally is someone who went onto the dating show for the wrong reasons, but it ended up being the perfect thing for her to do. She can get home and reconnect with the person that she was before she moved to California for college. Ally is very goal orientated, and it shows that she knows what she wants.

She has two love interests Jack Turner’s Tanner is the bachelor that heart she is trying to win. And Chad Michael Murray’s Brett, who is her old high school sweetheart that broke her heart when she was eighteen. Tanner is trying to find his happily ever after, and this is another role that I enjoyed Jack Turner in, even if he wasn’t the right love interest. Brett is running his father’s inn and is trying to make a good life for himself without her around.

Italia Ricci’s chemistry with both is fantastic though her chemistry with Chad Michael Murray was more romantically inclined than hers with Jack Turner.

The sets are amazing. I loved that the town gathering for the hundred years of the festival of lights was there were more townspeople than what they usually get. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend that you do.