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Maeve Quinlan

Markian Tarasiuk

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Nancy Sorel

Atticus Mitchell

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A Homecoming for the Holidays

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Emily Haine

Aren Buchholz

After years of bad boyfriends, Eliza decides to follow the rules of dating from a 50-year old self-help book.

Why Can't My Life Be a ROM-COM

Why Can't My Life Be a ROM-COM (2023)

Kathryn Davis

Sophie van Bastelaer

Rachel Sellan

Artist Olivia Lafferty has lived in New York City for two years with her professional life not yet having taken off, she and her actor best friend Tess, on whose sofa she has been sleeping for those two years, working as servers for a catering company to make ends meet. When Tess gets her big break which means an immediate move to Chicago, Olivia is forced to move out of their shared apartment by Valentine's Day two weeks away, made even more difficult as she, this time of year usually heading home to Valentine NE which the town does big for its namesake day, was unable to secure a flight home. In running into her wealthy and successful distant Los Angeles-based cousin George Kessler at a high end event catered by the company for which she and Olivia work, Tess, upon learning that George is driving back to Los Angeles in a family owned classic car, suggests he give both of them a ride, Tess to Chicago and Olivia to Valentine, which he is more than happy to do. Upon arriving in Valentine, George is faced with a time issue in making it back to Los Angeles for a meeting on Valentine's Day when the Board of the family company, Kessler + Kessler Asset Management, will vote him in as next CEO taking over from his father, the now malfunctioning car wanted by Kessler Sr. for the celebratory event following. In their time together in Valentine, Olivia and George have to get over some points of contention, which masks the mutual attraction that exists between the two. As George works to get his car fixed and as Olivia helps her sister Vanessa with the annual Valentine's Day Parade which she has taken over from a bitter Miss Hackey who was pushed out of the role after thirty years, they may help the other find their path in life, for George specifically to find his passion as opposed to the destiny set by his father, with that help borne out of Valentine's motto of love.—Huggo

Welcome to Valentine

Welcome to Valentine (2023)

Beau Bridges

Sarah Power

An adjunct professor in Sociology which has had her move from place to place around the world, Anna Colluccia is going home for Christmas, she the only one of her close knit Italian family to move out of town. This situation places her somewhat at odds with her younger sister, Ella Collucia, who, with her wife Nathalie Wolford, pregnant with their first child, has felt the need to take on many of the "oldest sibling" family tasks, such as taking over running the family farm, where the family has hosted a pre-Christmas Italian dinner for the community for forty-eight years. Their younger brother, RJ Collucia, has always felt like a failure, but, working as a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant, has discovered a passion for the first time in his life, namely cooking and love for the boss' daughter, Monica Banks. Their mother, Madelynn Collucia, takes care of their "nono" (grandfather), Vincent Collucia, at the family home, nono in the early stages of Alzheimer's. As the siblings have given their mother a well-deserved Hawaiian vacation for the week before Christmas as a gift, Anna is largely left to take care of nono in Madelynn's absence, when she learns from nono's neurologist, Dr. Greg Krasinski, that his Alzheimer's has progressed further than she was initially meant to believe by the family. With things in the family changing, which includes an announcement by Ella about the farm, Anna, in an effort as Dr. Greg suggests to keep nono's mind engaged and to come back to some lost family traditions, wants nono to try and recreate long deceased nona's famous sugo pasta sauce to serve for Christmas Eve dinner, a written copy of her recipe which is not known to exist. In the process, Anna may come to some understandings of her family from who, in her adjunct life, she has purposefully run away, while discovering toward what she really wants to run.

Our Italian Christmas Memories

Our Italian Christmas Memories (2022)

Barbara Niven

Sara Canning

Antonio Cupo

It is the busiest season for the Golden Dragon, a Chinese restaurant long owned and operated by first generation immigrants Jim and Sue Chen in Wichita KS, namely the Christmas season, it one of the few restaurants open on Christmas day when "Christmas misfits" frequent the establishment, including many of their regulars. It's the first Christmas for Jane since her husband's unexpected passing from a heart attack, he the basketball coach at the University of Wichita. While Jane is having a hard time moving on without him, she laments that her daughter Veronica, a high powered CFO at a tech company, seems to have easily put him in her past, she fixated on her father often not having been there for the family in favor of his high profile career. Veronica will have to move on herself from what she will learn is just the latest of many failures of expensive IVF treatments in the goal to have a family of her own as a single. Veronica's work colleague, engineer Nate, is determined to make it a merry Christmas for his two adolescent daughters, Jessa and Vivi, in light of the recent divorce from their mother, he perhaps trying a little too hard especially for Jessa's taste. The restaurant being open on Christmas also means a working day for Jim and Sue's staff, including their now two young adult offspring Romy and Rick, who have never had what most would consider a traditional Christmas. Their busboy/delivery boy, Miguel, a second generation Mexican-American, has received early acceptance into many of the nation's most prestigious colleges, he not having told his father Luis in not being able to afford such unless he gets a scholarship, which may be difficult as he doesn't have the perfect resume in lack of community service, despite he going out of his way to help his neighbors whenever they are in need. Rick, who generally waits tables, has failed out of college, he not having told Jim and Sue that he has found his passion, namely to be a chef, something that Jim and Sue probably would not have wanted for either of their children in they themselves only opening the restaurant as a means to support the family. Rick is facing another issue in the return home for the season of his Jewish "friend" Sadie from Los Angeles, she who he's always had feelings for but who has never really forgiven him for standing her up at her high school prom in his own feelings of lack of self-worth. And Jim and Sue have given Romy, an account executive at a New York furnishing company, permission to forgo working at the restaurant this Christmas season in favor of her spending the holidays with her boyfriend Blake and his family in Vermont, what she is expecting to be a traditional winter Christmas as idealized in all her favorite Christmas movies. Jim and Sue have given her that permission in light of their announcement: that they have sold the restaurant property and will be closing the Golden Dragon for good, their last day being Christmas Eve allowing their staff to be able to spend Christmas as Christmas this year for the first time. This announcement, which also funnels its way to Romy in Vermont, will have a profound effect on the family, the staff and the Christmas regulars in light of their current issues.

Christmas at the Golden Dragon

Christmas at the Golden Dragon (2022)

Raylene Harewood

Donna Benedicto

Thirty year old biochemist Carrie Watson is heading back to the family home in Seattle for her younger sister Lydia Watson's marriage to Brad Sisco, the wedding to take place in the lakeside backyard under the trellis where their own parents, Todd and Judy Watson, got married, and Carrie and Lydia's grandparents before them. Carrie is doing double duty as bridesmaid and wedding cake maker in her newfound love of the activity, equating it to her science background. Wedding cakes take on a new meaning when a story told to her twenty years ago by her mother that she had all but forgotten reenters her life: at Carrie's cousin's wedding then, Judy told her to put a piece of wedding cake under her pillow and she would dream of the man for her. The vision she saw that night has become reality in the form of Brad's best man, web designer Jason Hawkins. Feeling a little out of her element in how to deal with Jason especially as her last serious relationship ended not the way she had wanted, Carrie decides to consult "Just Ask Josie", an online columnist of the lovelorn to which her best friend and fellow biochemist Kaia Graves introduced her in Kaia believing Josie is always right about such matters. While Carrie can admit that she is falling for Jason and not just the thought of him as her literal dream man, the situation gets more complicated for all concerned in that Jason, not really a web designer, is actually Just Ask Josie, something not even Brad knows. While Jason is advising Carrie via the column and as Carrie follows that advice, neither knows how close they are to the other, this secret life of Jason's which may kibosh a relationship that both seem to want.

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