Guilty pleasure confession time – I can and will watch a Hallmark movie if the plot summary catches my eye and sounds interesting. It doesn’t happen much. Usually the Hallmark movie plot summary goes something along the lines “Successful city girl returns to her small hometown to help out in the failing family business, meets her former high school boyfriend and wild sex ensues.”
OK, I just threw that wild sex thing in there because as you well know, in a Hallmark movie – there ain’t no sex whether it’s wild, tame or otherwise.
At Christmas time (defined by Hallmark as starting in October) Christmas-themed movies pop up. With the addition of some fake snow and some decorations however, there is no variation in the standard plotlines.
But when I stumbled upon the following blurb for the movie Evergreen mentioning restoration of an old general store, it got my interest.
As usual, the movie was dumb and hokey as could be but as I said it’s a Hallmark movie so what’s new? The more interesting facet of the movie however, is that it was filmed in Vancouver at a museum that features a 1920 village with an old timey general store.
Mention of Evergreen though led me to this video. I haven’t seen Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s update of A Star is Born yet, but I’m betting they didn’t top this.
P.S. The Evergreen movie is airing again Monday nite at 8 on Hallmark. I’d recommend you watch the opening scene if nothing else to check out the red truck, then quick, turn the channel!