Rueben's Ramblings

The Hallmark Channel original movie Looking for Mr. Right will debut on June 7 at 9 PM.

A struggling novelist (Sarah Lancaster from Chuck) gets her big break when a book she writes about her dream man finally sells to a greedy literary agent, who wants to market it as a true story. Suddenly needing to find a guy to promote the book with her as her perfect boyfriend, the writer tries to make a romance spark between her and a local realtor, only to discover she’s been ignoring an imperfectly true love all along.

The cast includes Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day), Kip Pardue (Remember the Titans) and Brandon Quinn (Against the Wall).

Here is a trailer for Looking for Mr. Right.

Read Full Post »

On June 1, the new UP Channel movie Love Finds You in Sugarcreek will debut at 7 PM.

Rachel Troyer (Sarah Lancaster from Chuck) is a smart, focused, single policewoman in the quaint town of Sugarcreek, nicknamed “The Little Switzerland of Ohio” and located about an hour south of Akron, in the heart of Amish country. She frequently looks in on her three kindly Amish aunts Bertha (Kelly McGillis from Top Gun), Anna (Marianna Alacchi) and Lydia (Annie Kitral), who raised Rachel from girlhood after she was orphaned and are the proprietors of a picturesque, although faded, farmhouse inn. When a mysterious stranger, Joe (Tom Everett Scott from That Thing You Do), shows up on the inn’s doorstep with his five-year-old son, Bobby (Thomas Kapanowski), the aunts insist on taking the pair in as a matter of faith and good will.

Rachel’s police instincts immediately tell her that this seemingly broke outsider is much too refined to be the drifter he presents himself to be. So, while the aunts welcome Joe as a handyman and enjoy having a child around the Sugar Haus Inn again, a wary, suspicious – yet attracted – Rachel becomes determined to uncover his identity. Her digging not only reveals his surprising identity, but the fact that he’s run away from his home, his life, and a shocking unsolved murder. Unfortunately, Rachel’s digging doesn’t go unnoticed, which brings Joe’s past – and its violence – right into this quiet Amish community.

Here is the trailer for Love Finds You in Sugarcreek.

Read Full Post »

The Hallmark Movie Channel will debut the film The Color of Rain on May 31 at 9 PM.

Inspired by the true story of Gina Kell and Michael Spehn, the film follows both families as they become one after cancer tragically claims both Gina’s husband and Michael’s wife just six weeks apart. When young husband and father Matt Kell succumbs to a terminal cancer diagnosis on Christmas day 2005, his widow, Gina (Lacey Chabert from Party of Five and Mean Girls) and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support. Wanting to be close to her kids, Gina starts to volunteer at their elementary school and meets the Spehn children, Jack, Danny and Charlotte. In a gut-wrenching coincidence, just weeks after Matt’s death, the Spehn’s mom, Cathy, is also suddenly taken by cancer, leaving her distraught husband, Michael (Warren Christie from Alphas and October Road), to care for their three kids on his own.

Sensing the hopelessness in Michael she so recently saw in herself, Gina reaches out to Michael and his kids and the two families begin to forge an unlikely friendship. During the year that follows, their lives become intertwined as they learn to lean on each other during, at-times, insurmountable obstacles, tears and adversity. They begin to heal with laughter, compassion and faith. And, when Gina and Michael realize their newfound bond could be more than just friendship, they struggle against surprising resistance from their families and community to unite their two grieving families as one, and eventually learn to open their hearts to love again.

Here is a trailer for The Color of Rain.

Read Full Post »

On May 26, the two-hour TV movie Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy will air on Reelz Channel at 9 PM

Under constant pressure to turn out more bombs, as well as work on a new secret sonar line, the women of Victory Munitions band together in a tight bond of support and friendship.

But when a disturbing menace appears in the form of a saboteur among the factory workers, Gladys Witham (Jodi Balfour), a fiery young woman from privilege, is covertly recruited by Allied Intelligence to find the traitor, forcing her to spy on her best friends, co-workers and fellow agents and call into question everyone and everything she trusts.

The cast includes Meg Tilly, Charlotte Hegele, Ali Liebert, Anastasia Phillips, Anthony Lemke, Richard Fitzpatrick, Tahmoh Penikett, Peter Outerbridge and Antonio Cupo.

Here is a trailer for Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy.

Read Full Post »

The Lifetime movie Return to Zero, which is based on a true story, will debut at 8 PM.

A couple (Minnie Driver from About a Boy and Paul Adelstein from Scandal and Private Practice) are forced to deal with the aftermath of a late-term stillbirth and the stress it puts on their relationship and their second pregnancy.

The cast of this film includes Alfred Molina (Monday Mornings), Connie Nielsen (The Following), Sarah Jones (Alcatraz and Vegas), Andrea Anders (Better Off Ted and Mr. Sunshine) and Kathy Baker (Picket Fences).

Here is the trailer for Return to Zero.

Read Full Post »