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I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.

I'm Wendy.

I'm a former Hallmark hater.

We're continuing our fan favorite Hallmark movie review series called Fall Into Love Again with the movie Falling for Vermont, which originally aired in twenty seventeen.

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So let's start with a synopsis.

A best selling author who got amnesia as a result of a car accident finds refuge with a local doctor of an idyllic small town in Vermont.

David Winning directed Falling for Vermont.

He currently has eighty two directing credits, and his resume is a long list of Hallmark fan favorites, including field Day, The Nine Kittens of Christmas, and The Twenty Seven Hour Day.

Field Day just rolled right into this when I was watching a Hallmark plus Oh Today, you sure did, and I just kept on watching.

I like that movie.

The writing team of this movie included Jay Baxter and Sean Zakin, who wrote a teleplay.

The story itself came from Jay, Sean and Michael G.

Larkin, all working together.

This was the only Hallmark movie from Jay Baxter and Sean Zacon.

Michael G.

Larkin has a total of six writing credits, including last Year'stis This Season to be Irish.

Julie Gonzalo plays Angela slash Elizabeth.

She has fifty one acting credits and was last seen in this year's My Argentine Heart.

For another Fall themed option with Julie Chuck Out three, Bed two Bath one Ghost.

While I was writing that, I was like, not technically fall, but I think Halloween Spooky counts as fall, don't you think so?

Yeah, that's a good movie too.

Benjamin Airs plays Jeff.

He has one hundred and six acting credits and three upcoming Hallmark projects.

A Christmas Angel Match which is newly retitled, and two more True Justice mystery movies.

That's his movie with Megan or Yes Exciting.

Benson plays Brad.

Along with acting, he's also directing two upcoming holiday movies, This Countdown to Christmas, Christmas Babies and a Royal Montana Christmas Booked and Busy Mister Benson.

Barbara Kottmeyer plays Angela's sister and assistant, Cynthia, with thirty two acting credits.

This was her most recent Hallmark project.

Lauren mcmaarra plays Jeff's daughter Emily.

It has been about five years since her last acting project, but Lauren did go on to appear in A Wedding of Dreams, Welcome to Christmas, and Hearts of Winter since this movie.

Christian Michael Cooper plays Jeff's son Alex.

His twenty two acting projects include fifty three episodes of Winn calls the Heart where he plays the role of Timmy Lawson.

Falling for Vermont originally aired on September twenty third, twenty seventeen.

This movie was filmed in and around Agassy's and Langley, British Columbia, Canada.

We are going to take a quick break and we're going to be right back with our first impressions.

Hey, Wendy, what was your first impression of Falling for Vermont?

Falling for Vermont more like falling for Jeff.

Oops.

I have a lot of thoughts about it.

Oh, my first impression is, Dann, that's a lot of redheads in one place.

Why don't did they noticed?

No?

Why would you?

There's a lot of redheads at that book convention.

Must have been a family who brought their background actors.

Unless it was intentional, I don't know.

Huh.

Interesting, All right, let's talk about what we liked.

Well.

I like Julian Ben together, Oh so do I.

I thought they had great falling for you first date chemistry energy.

When they're walking together arm in arm at the Fall Festival, I was like, I can feel those first date butterflies.

I agree.

I did love their chemistry.

They clicked for me, the hesitation in my voice is because I was going to say, sometimes Homer gives us these pairs out don't really click.

These clicked.

They clicked.

You know.

Last week they had that zing.

They have that zing.

Last week I talked about what was it called Touch of the Day, No, no, no, the Fall movie that was so Harvest Moove so many people like and I didn't love like those two Jesse Shram I love Jesse.

I hated this pairing.

I don't want to talk about it, don't want to send me your emails.

But Ben and Julie Brava, Brava.

Hey, let's talk conflict in this movie.

I really appreciated it was not contrived.

We had all the information up front.

We know the conflict.

She doesn't know who she is.

She's gonna figure it out.

There's no silly misunderstanding, there's no running off.

We know that eventually she's gonna figure out who she is and there's going to be some friction there.

Yeah.

Yeah, I really liked the amnesia storyline.

Yeah, and I think sometimes we get these amnesia storylines and someone knows more than someone else, or they're faked.

Yeah.

I don't know if that's something that I've read in a book.

It just felt like we were all on the same page.

Here girl working towards the same thing.

I have a lot of thoughts about the amnesia storyline, but I actually mostly really worked for me.

Yeah.

I thought it gave the movie a little bit of mystery where it's obviously not a mystery at all.

But we have Angela Elizabeth trying to figure out who she is.

Doctor Jeff doesn't seem like that concern.

I don't feel like, No, he loves her on it, gives her money, he's got her taking care of his kids.

My husband was like, why are you letting this stranger spend all day with your children?

There is a stranger element that is like, don't you pause for a second, be like I have no idea who this person is.

Yes, she sows up walking down the street.

I love that scene though, when she's like walking away like from this like crash, and she's like the Sheriff's like where are you going?

Like she's like I love that.

I thought it was really good.

Yeah, I thought it was really good.

Hey, I'd like a fall fest in my town please.

However, we have one and it falls real flat.

When it's in an elementary school parking lot and not surrounded by fall foliage.

Don't worry, I'm going to talk about the fall foliage, but so bad.

I'm not surrounded by the potential of fall foliage.

Huh.

Yeah, it's like on the black top and yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

The other day, I was my daughter and I were in an adjacent city to ours, and they have this beautiful lake and we were like walking around it, you know, it's from exercise, and they had this sign about this like fall festival, and I was like, stop, I have to come.

And then I was like, oh, I'm mester real crowded though, yes, so I don't want to go.

Yes.

My husband said the same thing.

He's like, see, don't you want to go there?

And we have one in the neighborhood.

He's like, what with four hundred thousand people?

No, thank you.

Yeah, it's just because we don't live in a small town, right with two hundred people?

Right?

Yeah?

I know.

So do they need a bigger location for these festivals in our towns or do they need more of them?

Look, they do want they do one in a very big location near here.

It's just too many people.

There's two, many people live where we live.

Yeah, even when you try and recreate that small town feel, we don't live in a small town.

And I think this will go too far off the rails.

But I do think we have eliminated a lot of the fun, free ways we used to exist.

Like everything to do costs money now, and so I think when you have an event like that, people swarm.

Yeah, because everyone's just looking for something to do.

Yeah, maybe you need to take it like urban sprawl thoughts with Megan and Andy not you, but maybe maybe it needs to be like a neighborhood thing.

Yeah, we have one in our neighborhood too.

It's it's it falls flat.

It's an Orange County suburban neighborhood.

We don't have the vibes and it's ninety degree exactly.

Okay.

One thing I really liked was this cute fashion tryon scene in the Thirst store.

Really loved it.

I just she's so freaking cute, and I just love that she put on all these outfits like trying to figure out like what feels like her, and they're all they're not like over the top, but like at some point, like she's got these huge stilettos on.

I was like, who's speaking, who's choosing that?

Like that's what you think that?

You think she's a badass business woman in her other life maybe?

And then like she comes out in a very like suburban mom outfit something I would have worn eight years ago in twenty seventeen.

Have a little ankle boot and a skinny jean and a long a printed blouse.

I had a closet full of those.

They do with an open cardigan.

Yeah, I mean, did you hear the green jackets coming back to Oh?

I still have mine?

I don't have mine anymore, but I was like, hell, yeah, that was a look I really liked.

I still own mine.

I never stopped wearing it.

Sorry, I feel like it's a classic you mean, like the cargo green Yeah, the cargamp jacket.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was in this cute fashion Trian saying that I really liked on her last outfit.

When she comes out, she's like, I think this is it.

She's so happy.

But the way that Ben Slash Jeff looks at her, he's like it's like he finally sees her.

Yeah, even though she's in like a total nothing of an outfit, right, there's nothing spectacular about it.

But he looks like she's just stepped out in her lbed.

Exactly do you think in his mind, he's like, there's my mother replacement.

There she is, this was the mother for my children's Why do it?

What happened to his wife?

I don't remember she died, Yeah, that's what I thought she died anyway.

Anyway, speaking of the kids, I did really like her relationship with his daughter m I thought it was very sweet how they have this growing bond over like developing like this story and it was cute, like it really led into like, oh, this is who Angela is, right, like that part of her wasn't lost even though she didn't remember it.

I liked it.

I like, I thought it was like a sweet little extra layer.

I mean, the son doesn't get a lot of like no, but it's this mother daughter, this real sweet well it's tuck wishes.

Okay.

You know, every time Peter Benson comes on screen, I'm like, Peter Benson.

Can't It's like a tick.

I can't.

I can't stop myself.

And I am always thrilled to see Peter Benson on screen.

But damn, that guy could not have cared less about his girlfriend.

Okay, so this is one of my biggest wishes.

I freaking hate that Brad, Peter Benson and the sister they're just like part of this machine to make Angela this like superstar.

She is telling you, I don't want to do this.

I want to and I'm not dismissing.

I just want to be a writer, like she just wants to write books.

She doesn't want to do the whole thing.

Listen to her.

And instead, when she runs away and steals your car, which should be like the ultimate moment where we go, oh, obviously she's not okay with this.

They think she out.

They just keep the machine churning behind the scenes instead of making almost no effort to go look for her.

And even when the sister finally hits a wall and is like, maybe we should do something about this, Brad's like, Nana, give her a few more days.

I feel zero percent bad for him that she moved on.

They did not have a relationship.

He was a business partner.

I hear you say that, and I counter with, let's hear it.

I don't counter with.

My concern is here comes this woman full amnesia.

She falls for doctor Jeff.

She doesn't pause for one second and go, I wonder if I come from a life where I'm married or I have children, maybe I should not move forward with these feelings I'm having for some random stranger I just met, because who knows what my other life looks like.

I totally agree with you.

When they almost kiss, they don't kiss in that moment, right, but they almost kiss and they stop.

I was like, wait a minute, exactly, do not get into a relationship while you don't have any idea who you are.

I fully agree with you.

It's not like I know she just bumped her head, but it's not like she doesn't have any common sense here to be like, wait before I jump into something, I have no idea who I am or what is waiting for me.

Yeah, I just feel like I don't like that, you know?

Was my thought.

She's in the hospital or the doctor's office.

After they found her on the side of the road, I was thinking, what are they gonna what are they gonna do with her?

She doesn't have a wallet, she doesn't have a phone, she doesn't know who she is.

Obviously, it's a Hallmark movie.

So this guy's got a back house, miraculously, and she's gonna go stay there.

This is like never kiss a man in a Christmas sweater.

Ash Williams moves the guy into her back house because she hits them of the Christmas tree or do you remember those details of a movie we did not enjoy.

I think I may have seen it recently or that part of it.

But the whole thing is like she's trying to make it up to him, so she moves him into her backhouse.

But I'm thinking, what would happen?

What would happen?

You have no identifying nothing to identify you, not a dollar to your name.

What would happen to you?

What would they do to you?

Who's they?

You're in the hospital and they say you've got amnesia.

We don't know.

Do they keep you in the hospital?

They just keep you there, don't they?

I don't know.

I really idea to wonder what would happen.

I have no idea.

She would just be this Jane Doe.

It would be all over the news, would it not?

Perhaps this a woman came out of the woods after an accident and has no idea, does not know who she is, Like, help us identify her?

I think it would be news.

I was very worried about that.

Yeah, I have so many questions for jujitsu.

That's okay.

How long was she unconscious in her car before she started walking on the road in broad daylight?

She crashes in the middle of the night.

She's unconscious for hours, and then just hours stumbles out in the mid morning.

She's bleeding out from her head.

Another time, inconsistency.

When she gets to Jess's house the first day when she's found, he's like, we're gonna have dinner, or if you want to go to bed, you can go to bed, and she like yawns, and so she goes to bed.

It is still light outside.

It is fall in Vermont, when the sun sets very early.

It's no later than four pm in that house.

And she goes to bed.

And the next one she's like, I got a whole ten hours of sleep.

I was like, girlfriend, you must have gotten like seventeen hours a week based on that timeline.

Let's talk about the leaves.

I mean, I think I saw a digital leave fall behind right.

The leaf miming Wendy just did was really a plus.

You know, it's so bad because they plant these like singular bunches of leaves that might just be seen like over the person's head.

But when they pan back, yeah, it's this enormous field of evergreens with just this like poof of like orange leaves.

It's like they walked into the freaking hobby lobby or Michael's and just was like, get that tree and we're gonna use it in all these spots.

Put the tree over the house.

Oh my god, it's so singular, bunch of orange leaves.

It's real bad.

This place is beautiful.

I would imagine in the fall it is quite nice, but it was not fall.

But can I stop you?

Though, I don't feel like I've ever seen I've seen digital snow, but I don't know if I've ever seen a digital leaf.

I don't know for real.

I was like somebody in editing was like really proud and fat, and I was like, oh my god, just don't just don't just don't it better left alone?

Yes?

Go ahead?

What else?

The Little Boys pumpkin was such a fake pumpkin, Like the top wasn't even cut off.

It was like a plastic pumpkin that you buy at the craft store that you stick up tea light in probably had one built in.

I was like, come, on.

Yeah, there were a lot of like porch shots that had just like lots of fake pumpkins on it, Like you can't.

I mean, I don't know what time of the year, summer, this is summer.

Pumpkins don't exist in summertime.

I'm sure they do.

No, Yeah, they grow up until the all season vegetable or it's a fruit, it's a fruit as a seed.

They grow up until the fall season.

Then they cut them and deliver them.

I don't think pumpkins are readily available, I do that.

I don't know, but unless you got a pumpkin farm, which you think they could find in Vermont?

Wait, no, Canada.

In Langley, British Columbia.

When she arrives at the expo, there are so many redheads, like it's a sea of redheads.

I'm so sorry I didn't notice.

I don't really care.

Also, I would like to know why doesn't she have her own car?

Why does she have to borrow re Stitcher's car all the time.

She's a successful author.

Why doesn't she have a car she drives?

Good question?

Get a car.

I don't know.

Are they supposed to be in New York?

There?

Where are they?

Chicago?

Boston.

They think they're Boston Boston.

Maybe she her sister has a car.

Why doesn't she have a car.

Maybe she relies on public transportation there.

They have a great mass transit system there.

Yeah.

That sometimes you gotta leave the city.

Okay, I have too digit see that's beside the leaves.

Okay.

There's a scene where she is talking with the child there like in a gazebo and like, yeah, and in the bag you see Agasi Delicatessen.

That's the city that they're in.

Oh, Agasy?

Is that how you say it?

That's funny.

I just was like, maybe I only recognized it because I did the notes.

I was like, oh, this is where it was filmed.

Oh, that's funny.

That is funny.

You know.

I didn't say like Vermont Delly.

Just Okay.

When they are at the cute little fun fair and they're on that Ferriswell scene, gorgeous wide shot, there's nobody there on the ground.

It's like very few people, very few people.

And maybe that's a like we've talked about an asting, it would be packed, So there was this like very few extras.

Okay, that's it.

What did you rate falling for m mind?

Yeah, I liked it.

I gave it three point seven five stars.

I give it four stars.

I really I thought the Airs effect gives it an automatic I really enjoy Ben Airs, and I really enjoy Julie Gonzalo too, So this was a fun movie.

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