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Claire and her parents, Jacob and Abbie, are in Italy to visit her grandfather Lawrence who owns a hotel. They normally come at Christmas but for some reason they're coming in August. But that's not gonna stop Claire from singing Christmas songs on the way. When they get there, Claire runs off to find her boyfriend Walter while Jacob and Abbie tell Lawrence that they're getting a divorce, and they're going to tell Claire here so that she's at her happy place and they ask Lawrence if he would break the news so that she can feel free to respond as she needs.

But Claire's trip is already off to a bad start when she discovers that she's Walter's winter girlfriend. He's currently hanging out with his summer girlfriend.

They drop the news, Claire is sad but not surprised. She decides to go hang out in the basement so she can be around the Christmas stuff. And she comes up with an idea - she wants one more Christmas as a family. Her parents are unsure but Lawrence is like WE'RE DOING IT! And we're flying Gams and Pop Pop out too!

One problem arises and its that one of the hotel guests hates Christmas and he brings big money to the hotel so they have to make him happy.

When Gams and Pop Pop show up, Pop Pop sees a women and immediately starts being weird. He opens up to Lawrence - he slept with this women 10 years ago and she's gonna be here all week. So Lawrence offers to cover for him as much as he can.

And Lawrence keeps finding himself in people's mess when he discovers that on Jacob's camera, there's pictures from a camping trip and he seemed to be getting cozy with another women that's not Claire.

Pop Pop decides to just stay in his room which leaves Gam to spend time by herself which leads to her actually hanging out with Claudia, the women her husband secretly had a one night stand with 10 years ago, which she opens up about how she's never quite gotten over this one night stand, not knowing she's talking about Gam's husband.

We find out that Abbie had a little something with her boss. Basically everyone in this movie is a cheater.

It finally basically all comes out right as it comes out that Claire's new puppy is missing. It's a whole thing

Claire is sad and goes to be alone. She sneaks out and finds the puppy and comes back to find out that her parents are staying together. yay?

This week we're reliving the best DTH holiday moments from 'Season 7 Kick-Off' (October 18, 2024) through 'Engaged by Christmas' (December 31, 2024)

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The movie kicks off at the ending of a play. The crowd cheers. And the players bow, including Hannah's mom, Delores. The next day, Delores comes face to face with her rival, Victoria.

Hannah goes to talk to her sister and tells her that she's going on her first date with Chad TONIGHT! While out to eat, they see this guy just being really rude and yelling.

The next day, she goes to deliver the pies that Victoria ordered and finds her MURDERED! She notices that something is burning and she runs to turn off the stove.

Obviously, Delores did it. And Hannah needs to clear her mom's name. She comes up with an thought - what if the killer didn't turn on the burner. What if Victoria knew she was in trouble and she turned it on so that the smoke detector goes off to scare the killer.

So she goes to tell Chad and he's like I need you to know that your mom is a suspect. It's clear that they weren't on good terms and everyone knew it.

Delores is working on her own investigation to clear her name which includes getting in disguise to sneak around back stage at the play house but is caught by Hannah when she shows up to tour it to potentially booking it.

She goes to check back out Victoria's house and finds out that the yelling guy from the restaurant lives next door!

Plus, there's this cousin of one of Hanna's employees that just came into town and she's real sus.

And then there's also Victoria nephew who is like a sculptor or something.

After another one of Hannah & Chad's nights out, they get back to her place and sees that her door is slightly open. So Chad goes in and begins to fight a guy! They don't know who this guy is.

They also go to check out Victoria's dance teacher which is really just an opportunity for Chad and Hannah to tango together.

Hannah remembers that one of nephews sculptures was suddenly missing after she left the house that day, so they go to arrest him. But he's like I didn't do it but I knew you would make a big deal about this so I hired that guy to scare you. But it's too little too late. But Hannah isn't quite sold on him being the killer cuz he didn't know about the pan on the stove.

But what can you do. They got their man. Hannah goes to cater Lisa's family reunion at the play house. That's where the real killer comes out - it's the woman who runs they play house! She had a thing with the dance instructor and then got jealous when he took a liking to Victoria. She has a gun, Hannah grabs a prop knife, they have a standoff. Chad arrives with the police to arrest the killer. Hannah faints and is swept off her feet by Chad. Those two lovebirds are going to lovebird some more.

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Liara is about to get married to Kyle. A simple eloping at city hall so they can put all their money towards her dream house & their honeymoon to Italy. Kyle comes in to say I'm not going to Italy with you....I'm going to Thailand! He just needs a month or two. Also, he quit his job. I don't think it's gonna work out.

They're donezo so she goes to talk to her mom. Her mom tells her that she should still go to Italy. It's her dream trip. So she goes and the trip starts a little rocky with the honeymoon suite still being decked out for a honeymoon. But that's nothing some sightseeing can't fix. She's talking to her mom constantly, throwing coins in a well which promises that she'll end up getting married in Italy.

And it doesn't take long. She ends up meeting Leo. She tries his pastry, they talk about her marrying his grandma, and encourages her to go visit her bakery in Capena which happens to be where her parents met. So instead of getting on her flight home, she hops on a bus to Capena. As she's walking down the street, she sees an picture of a villa for sale for 1 euro - it's a villa that her parents took a picture in front of when they visited. So she buys it, not with any real plans to move there but more like a symbolic gesture. While walking there, Leo drives past her and offers to give her a drive. He gives her some bad news - there is fine print. She has to start renovating the house quickly and be done within a year but you also have to leave the country in 90 days and be gone for at least 90 days or else you're going to get fined big time. Luckily for her, Leo is a handyman. He says he's too busy but we all know he'll be back. He keeps getting incredibly stressed out whenever his dad calls but we're not sure what that's about. They get to work and begin to hang out outside of the renovations, as well. She even joins him to watch some football which is big fun, especially when they hug and he spins her. The sparks are flying. And the house is actually starting to turn around a bit. But one day, a step on her ladder breaks and she falls. She's real sad. He shows up and picks her up, kicks open the gate, puts her in his truck, helps her calm down. And he takes her to his place to take a nice warm shower. He gets her a dress and they go out to dinner together and he opens up about how he graduated from Harvard and his dad was so proud of him but he was miserable, so he came to Italy and never left. He takes her back to her place and her electricity is on and she just starts talking about how she loves it here and loves her villa and loves him! whoa whoa whoa. A couple days later, they're enjoying some time together and they end up kissinggggg. Things are really looking up for the two love birds until Kyle shows up one day. She tells him to GET LOST!

But her time is up. She has to leave the country tomorrow. And this hotel chain guy comes by to make her an offer on the house with plans of turning it into an AirBnB.

Leo asks her what she wants to do and she says she thinks Chicago is her home but she'll come back to visit. That's not good enough for him and he leaves. She gets the offer and decides that she doesn't want to take it. And the good news is she finds out that she doesn't have to leave. She tells Leo that she wants to finish renovating it and they can rent it as an AirBnb themselves. Her mom finally comes to check out the place and is blown away. And Leo and Liara celebrate with kiss.

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The movie kicks off with a dude named Jack Cooper being very proud of whatever he just wrote on his computer. He gets home and sees his daughter, Grace looking at a dating app with her aunt Carrie. When she leaves the room, we find out that this is the first Christmas since Jack's wife died and he's concerned about Carrie. To cheer her up, he takes her to get a picture with Santa despite her not wanting to. When she gets on Santa's lap, she asks Santa to get dad a girlfriend despite the fact that he's currently dating a women named Veronica that she does not like.

We then meet Jessica who runs a cafe that needs to come up with $25,000 in 5 days or they're gonna lose it.

Jack and Grace are gonna go spend Christmas with Grace's grandparents and she's mad to find out that while Jack is there, he's gonna be doing a little bit of work. There's a cafe that he's supposed to be looking into potentially buying out for his job. When he shows up, we find out that it's Jessica's cafe. And he's sad because it's an institution and he also just met Jessica and they really hit it off.

Grace picks up on this and decides that Jessica would be a better fit for her dad than Veronica would be. So she goes to meet with Jessica and gives her the pitch.

When Jack finds out what she did, he goes to talk to her and they have one of the more awkward conversations of all time. They end up going to the local bar together and there's karaoke. They bond over their past with music and they take turns singing. He even sings an original that he's working on and she touches his hand.

Things are heating up. But keep in mind, he secretly is supposed to be making an offer on her cafe. Instead, he comes up with a plan for her to have a fundraiser concert to help save the cafe.

She agrees to give it a shot and Grace is going to drum for her. After their first practice, Jessica and Jack are talking and they almost kiss but he stops her and is like I have a girlfriend and there's also another reason. Before he can expand on that though, they find out that grandpa has collapsed. He's ok though.

The event goes as planned and it goes really well until Veronica shows up and yells at Jack about how he's a liar. Jessica overhears all of this and gets mad and leaves.

To make matters worse, Grace also finds out that her dad is a liar. But then Grace admits she didn't tell the whole truth either - I didn't promise mom I'd help you be happy, I promised to help you fall in love again.

They decide they are going to invest in the cafe. He goes to talk to Jessica. She accepts. And they kiss!

Cut to a year later, they are crushing things, there's a second annual concert, and those two love birds are kissing.

This week we're reliving the best DTH moments from 'August Preview Show' (August 1, 2024) through 'Hallmark Christmas Preview Show: Part 2' (October 17, 2024)

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We had a great time chatting with Alec Santos!
Make sure to catch his new movie on Hallmark Channel - A Machu Picchu Proposal - airing 6/28 at 8pm EST

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