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Winter's Love Story (2019)

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Bungee, Jen Lilley and Kevin McGarry There are moments when we get to spend a lot of times with a certain somebody, we get along, then just when we think we are going up the next level, something happens that could drive you both apart.  This story is something like that.  Our main characters are both writers here.  They have a good following, and they go on tour together.  Most of the time it's just the two of them plus dear Bungee the Dog.  Without the two main characters saying anything directly, everyone who is watching sees and feels what the two of them feel. The two kind of sense "it" too, but when the two of you don't really get to talk about "it", there would conclusions  that would probably be jumped at, on, or whatever...that maybe one of you just imagined everything that transpired between the two of you...the two of them, I mean. Even if there is that formulaic thing again, I like this story because even there were misunderstandings,...

Christmas in Love (2018)

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Directed by  Don McBrearty Teleplay by  Stephen A. Stewart  and Bob Sáenz Story by Stephen A. Stewart Ellie Hartman is an aspiring crafter working in her small town’s bakery making famous Christmas Kringles. When the new, big-city CEO Nick Carlingson visits the bakery, he arrives filled with modernization ideas destined to lay off many employees. During his visit, Ellie is to teach Nick how to make a Kringle, and determined to show him it’s the  people  who make the business a success, not machines. Nick meets more of the employees and townspeople, visits the food bank and begins to see all the kindness that is shared, and he begins to soften — though not convinced automation isn’t better. Struggling with chasing her own entrepreneurial dreams, Ellie begins to fall for Nick but not before feeling betrayed when she inadvertently sees Nick’s laptop filled with automation plans. When Nick finally tells the employees his future ide...