Pumpkin Pie Wars (TV Movie 2016)

Pumpkin Pie Wars: Directed by Steven R. Monroe. With Julie Gonzalo, Rico Aragon, Michele Scarabelli, Jennifer-Juniper Angeli. Ten years ago, Faye and Lydia each opened their own bakeries in Emeryville, Ohio, after a personal and professional fall-out during a local Pumpkin Pie contest. Now their children – and co-workers – Casey and Sam, are set to carry on the rivalry as they go head-to-head in the same contest. There’s only one problem for these two people who are supposed to hate each other: they start to fall in love. Starring Julie Gonzalo and Eric Aragon.

“Hallmark now produces movies at almost soap opera pace. In fall 2017 it appears there will be six of the Autumn/Halloween movies. This volume means a lot of them are hackneyed and redundant. However, some are better than others and this falls in that category. Of course we all know how they will end. The joy is in the journey I guess. That being said I think there are four factors that make or break a Hallmark Movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFirst, are the lead roles good characters with depth and well acted. Second, does the romance seem to be real or contrived. Third, are the comedy portions of the movie actually funny. (I would say this is an oft neglected factor for Halmark) Fourth, are there a few nice quirks to the story line to add some drama. All four are true here to one degree to another. Here too the actual dialogue was of better quality than most Hallmarks. Meaning you donu0026#39;t have characters constantly saying thingsthat no human being would ever say to another.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe negative to this movie is that there were no neat subplots or side characters to round out the story. On the positive side it was consistently well acted, paced, with a nice twist at the end that make it a movie to see next Fall.”