Rueben's Ramblings

On November 30, the Hallmark Channel movie Christmas in Rome will debut at 8 PM.

Lacey Chabert plays an independent-minded American tour guide named Angela, who is fired from her job in Rome just before Christmas. She crosses paths with an American executive named Oliver (Sam Page), who wants to buy a high-end Italian ceramics company.

Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around the Eternal City, as the owner of the ceramics company won’t sell it to him until he learns the heart and soul of Rome.

Here is a trailer for Christmas in Rome.

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On November 29, the holiday movie Baking Christmas will debut on OWN at 9 PM.

When Patty (Aloma Wright from Suits), the founder of the town’s most popular and successful bakery, announces her plan to retire at the end of the year, her children step up to take over the family business. Patty and Phillip’s (Tim Reid from WKRP in Cincinnati) children, Jennifer (Khalilah Joi from Big Little Lies), Angela (Leigh-Ann Rose from Love Thy Neighbor) and Anthony (Arnell Powell from Greenleaf), are qualified – and eager – to run the enterprise, and each has their own ideas for writing the bakery’s next chapter.

There is only one way to ensure the shop ends up in the right hands and that is a Christmas cake bakeoff. The gloves come off and the frosting flies as the siblings vie for control of the bakery in an unforgettable competition to create the best-ever Christmas confection.

The film also stars Yohance Myles (Ambitions).

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The Lifetime holiday movie Staging Christmas will debut on November 29 at 8 PM.

Lori (Soleil Moon Frye from Punky Brewster) stages homes for a living and her busiest season is Christmas! Though she normally only stages homes that are for sale, she’s intrigued when a wealthy widower named Elliot (George Stults from 7th Heaven) asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, Maddie. As Lori starts remaking Elliott’s home, she finds that Maddie isn’t the only one in desperate need of the Christmas spirit.

As Lori spends more and more time with Elliot and Maddie, she starts to feel like part of the family. While she was initially hired to simply stage the perfect Christmas in their house, she ends up creating it for the father and daughter in every way imaginable.

The movie also stars Jaleel White (Family Matters).

Here is a trailer for Staging Christmas:

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On November 29, the Hallmark Channel movie Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy will debut at 8 PM.

As the town searches for a rumored Christmas Time Capsule, a skeptical writer arrives in Evergreen to get the story on the town’s “too-good-to-be-true” Christmas-fever.

The cast includes Maggie Lawson (Psych) and Paul Greene (When Calls the Heart) with Jill Wagner, Ashley Williams, Holly Robinson Peete, Barbara Niven and Rukiya Bernard all reprising their roles.

Here is a trailer for Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy.

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On November 28, the Lifetime holiday movie A Christmas Wish will debut at 8 PM.

Every December in the small town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana a wooden wishing box is placed in the park as a Christmas tradition. People write down their true heart’s desire on a slip of paper and place it in the box in hopes that their wish will be granted. After a night out together, Maddie (Megan Park from The Secret Life of the American Teenager) encourages her sister Faith (Hilarie Burton from One Tree Hill and White Collar) to put a wish in the box – a wish to experience true love for the first time. Faith and Maddie are surprised the next day when she meets the very handsome and eligible Andrew (Cristian de la Fuente from In Plain Sight).

At first, Faith thinks that her Christmas wish has come true. But as Christmas nears, Faith begins to wonder if Andrew is really perfect for her, or if the wish is leading her to her best friend, Wyatt (Tyler Hilton from One Tree Hill).

Pam Grier will make a special appearance in the film.

Here is a trailer for A Christmas Wish.

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The Netflix original film Holiday Rush will debut online on November 28.

Single dad and radio DJ Rashon “Rush” Williams (Romany Malco from A Million Little Things) loses his job right as his four entitled kids share their pricey Christmas lists. To keep Rush on the air in New York, his producer and aunt (Darlene Love) plan to help him buy another station — if the Williams family can downsize fast and embrace a simpler life.

The cast includes Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek: Discovery), Tamala Jones (Castle) and LaLa Anthony (Power).

Here is a trailer for Holiday Rush:

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On November 28, the Hallmark Channel holiday movie Christmas at the Plaza will debut at 8 PM.

When historian Jessica (Elizabeth Henstridge from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is hired to create The Plaza’s Christmas display, she finds more than facts while teaming up with handsome decorator Nick (Ryan Pavey) to bring the display to life.

Here is a trailer for Christmas at the Plaza.

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On November 27, the Lifetime holiday movie A Very Vintage Christmas will debut at 8 PM.

The Christmas lights are up and shoppers are flooding the quaint town of Mountain View, including one special store, Very Vintage Antiques. The shop’s owner, Dodie (Tia Mowry-Hardrict), is a hopeless romantic and absolutely one of a kind, similar to the pieces in her shop. When Dodie finds a hidden box containing an eclectic collection of mementos chronicling a timeless romantic union, she makes it her mission to deliver it to its rightful owner. Dodie manages to persuade the handsome new tenant, Edward (Jesse Hutch), at the listed address to help her with her search. Will they find the true owner and true love on their adventure?

Here is a trailer for A Very Vintage Christmas:

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The Hallmark Channel movie The Christmas Club will debut on November 27 at 8 PM.

Two busy strangers, Olivia Bennett and Edward Taylor (Elizabeth Mitchell and Cameron Mathison) meet when they help an elderly woman find her lost Christmas savings. Thanks to fate and Christmas magic, they also find something they were both missing: true love.

Here is a trailer for The Christmas Club.

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