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The movie kicks off with a dude named Jack Cooper being very proud of whatever he just wrote on his computer. He gets home and sees his daughter, Grace looking at a dating app with her aunt Carrie. When she leaves the room, we find out that this is the first Christmas since Jack's wife died and he's concerned about Carrie. To cheer her up, he takes her to get a picture with Santa despite her not wanting to. When she gets on Santa's lap, she asks Santa to get dad a girlfriend despite the fact that he's currently dating a women named Veronica that she does not like.

We then meet Jessica who runs a cafe that needs to come up with $25,000 in 5 days or they're gonna lose it.

Jack and Grace are gonna go spend Christmas with Grace's grandparents and she's mad to find out that while Jack is there, he's gonna be doing a little bit of work. There's a cafe that he's supposed to be looking into potentially buying out for his job. When he shows up, we find out that it's Jessica's cafe. And he's sad because it's an institution and he also just met Jessica and they really hit it off.

Grace picks up on this and decides that Jessica would be a better fit for her dad than Veronica would be. So she goes to meet with Jessica and gives her the pitch.

When Jack finds out what she did, he goes to talk to her and they have one of the more awkward conversations of all time. They end up going to the local bar together and there's karaoke. They bond over their past with music and they take turns singing. He even sings an original that he's working on and she touches his hand.

Things are heating up. But keep in mind, he secretly is supposed to be making an offer on her cafe. Instead, he comes up with a plan for her to have a fundraiser concert to help save the cafe.

She agrees to give it a shot and Grace is going to drum for her. After their first practice, Jessica and Jack are talking and they almost kiss but he stops her and is like I have a girlfriend and there's also another reason. Before he can expand on that though, they find out that grandpa has collapsed. He's ok though.

The event goes as planned and it goes really well until Veronica shows up and yells at Jack about how he's a liar. Jessica overhears all of this and gets mad and leaves.

To make matters worse, Grace also finds out that her dad is a liar. But then Grace admits she didn't tell the whole truth either - I didn't promise mom I'd help you be happy, I promised to help you fall in love again.

They decide they are going to invest in the cafe. He goes to talk to Jessica. She accepts. And they kiss!

Cut to a year later, they are crushing things, there's a second annual concert, and those two love birds are kissing.

This week we're reliving the best DTH moments from 'August Preview Show' (August 1, 2024) through 'Hallmark Christmas Preview Show: Part 2' (October 17, 2024)

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We had a great time chatting with Alec Santos!
Make sure to catch his new movie on Hallmark Channel - A Machu Picchu Proposal - airing 6/28 at 8pm EST

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Erica is busy working on her first novel with her name on it and it's harder than she thought it would be now that its her name on the cover. Nico and her have been dating for 5 months and he proposes! She says yes! And Anna surprises Erica by being there for it! But she can't stay long because she's off to Spain to eat some food and review it for her blog which has really taken off. She finds out about this spice, Saffron. She tries to find out what it is but it's a secret. She meets a man named Javier whose family runs the saffron farm and he refuses her request for an interview. His family isn’t in it for the fame and the hype, and their methods are a well-kept secret. Despite that, he and Anna hit it off when they end up sitting together at a restaurant.

After dinner, she's like I could talk to you all night and he's like well why don't we? They get ice cream, he holds her hand, and he says he wishes he could grant access for an interview but his family is kinda mad at him right now but won't say why. She's like I don't want to talk about that right now. Instead, they jus KISS! IT's like before the first commercial break. I don't really know what to do with that info.

The next day, she gets a call from her agent and she tells her that there's this big magazine that is potentially interested in hiring her for their international food reviews. All she has to do is write about something that no one has ever written about before and submit it. No big deal.

She decides she's gonna go to Portugal to find something but her car battery dies. Anna’s car breaks down right outside Javier’s village the next day, and he offers her a bed to sleep in until the car can be charged.

Typically, you wouldn't think that to be a big deal, but when her family discovers that there is a random women in the family guest room. Things go nuts!

Javier explains that the day he met Anna, he was supposed to be meeting with a matchmaker who was going to set him up with a wife because he’s not allowed to inherit his family farm until he’s married. Standard.

Javier only has until the next harvest to get married, or else he loses his claim to the farm. There's a lot of rules here. So, naturally they assume that she is his fiancée.

So they make an agreement - she’ll stay and live there through the harvest pretending to be his fiancée, if he’ll let her write an article about his family farm for her website.

Erica ends up showing up still thinking Anna’s broken-down car needs help, and she’s pulled into the ruse too.

Anna starts to really enjoy living with Javier’s family though – she has no family of her own back home – and starts to wish it was all real.

And Erica starts to be inspired as well by Javier's family and is using them as inspiration for her book.

Ultimately, everything comes out and it's a whole thing and Erica and Anna end up getting in a fight.

They end up making up and we see Erica get married. And Anna and Javier make ip and the family gives her the ok to publish the story and they decide to give the relationship a real start and they kiss.

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It's the night before and an elf band is out in the snow and they beginning playing an absolute banger of a song and that's when Dan found out this movie was a musical. Santa begins to sing a song all about preparing for Christmas. It's showtime baby! There is one letter that got left behind, so these elves run to try to get it to Santa before he takes off. One of the reindeer, Robin, gets sick and has to stay home. The elves come running out just in time and Santa opens up the letter. It is from a little girl, The Princesss of Hearts, in Wonderland who is hoping Santa will finally visit them this year. He decides that they're going to visit Wonderland first. The reindeer aren't having it. They've read the book. Wonderland is mad! Santa reminds them that he's Santa and everyone deserves a gift!

Robin realizes that Santa left the reindeer SOS button behind, so they fly off.

We head to Wonderland and we find out that some of the folks in Wonderland secretly celebrate Christmas but hide it from the Queen because she's outlawed Christmas. She heads off to sleep just as Santa lands on the roof. Her cat hears some commotion on the roof and won't stand for it. So they go invisible mode, sneaks downstairs and knocks over a lamp to wake the Queen up. She comes downstairs and finds Santa and she says OFF WITH HIS HEAD! He runs off and she fall out the window. Santa tries to find the princess but ends up opening a door which causes him to fall through the door and into a maze. It's mad out there! He discovers a girl named Alice who is also there and she's a giant - she's been eating the apple shrooms. Luckily, she's given a potion which shrinks her back to regular size. They go to enjoy some tea and treats with the Mad Hatter. But the Queen isn't too far behind.

We find out that the Queen tried to send a letter to Santa when she was a kid, but the White Rabbit goofed on getting it to the mailbox in one piece. Since Santa never came to Wonderland, she began to hate Christmas. she catches up with Santa and he is put on trial. It's in the trial that the Queen finds out that St. Nick has only just now discovered her letter.

Via song, we find out all she really wanted was a bandersnatch. She gives it some thought and decides to give St. Nick one last chance to give her the bandersnatch she's always wanted.

But Santa and the gang took some of the shrinking juice to escape from jail.

When Queen gets to the jail, she finds it empty and gets real sad. She tracks Santa down and he gives her the gift and it's coal. He explains that's what happens to a gift if you haven't been nice. The only way to get the gift is to be kind. So she decides to let Alice go but keep Santa in jail until the gift turns back. Alice helps the Queen learn how to be kind again. She finds Santa and tells him to give the gift to someone who deserves it and they all enjoy tea together.

This week we're reliving the best DTH moments from 'Christmas Holidate' (May 27, 2024) through 'Snow 2: Brain Freeze' (July 31, 2024)

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