Title: Christmas at the Holly Day Inn (2023) Medium: Film Approximate Length: An hour and thirty minutes (1:30), but for what I'm asking for, many scenes can be skipped if you'd like Where to (Legally) Find It:Tubi, Pluto TV. It is also on Plex and Fandango, and on Amazon Video/YT TV with subscription. I know it's also available to purchase/rent for those in the US and UK (maybe other places also).
Brief Description: This is your standard Hallmark-esque film, but Britishized. The female main character, Emma Holly, quits her job at the start of the holiday and decides to check up on her widowed dad, who owns a bed and breakfast in the country. To their disappointment, the inn is due to be sold from lack of customers and and (shocker!) the potential buyer (read: property shark) happens to be the company the male love interest is employed for!
Welcome to the Holly Day Inn! We have doggies.
But what I love about this film is that the romance isn’t exclusive to the young main characters. The dad, Ben Holly (played by Colin Baker), is smitten with one of the cafe owners in town, Molly Hennings (Anita Dobson), who has a long-standing crush with him, too. For anyone craving a love story about older people (70+), I think this film will scratch that itch!
Ben volunteers to help Molly in her cafe.
What You Love About the Canon/Ships: As I said above, what puts this film on top for me is the secondary love story between Ben and Molly. I love how, despite his being a widow, he was given a second chance at love with someone who’d adored him since they were young.
Sugar and spice and everything nice.
Kinds of Things You're Planning to Ask For: Post-canon Ben/Molly fluff!, but I wouldn’t mind having a peek into their first time being intimate together (I’m sure it was full of laughs and aching bones!)
Christmas at the Holly Day Inn (2023)
Medium: Film
Approximate Length: An hour and thirty minutes (1:30), but for what I'm asking for, many scenes can be skipped if you'd like
Where to (Legally) Find It: Tubi, Pluto TV. It is also on Plex and Fandango, and on Amazon Video/YT TV with subscription. I know it's also available to purchase/rent for those in the US and UK (maybe other places also).
Brief Description: This is your standard Hallmark-esque film, but Britishized. The female main character, Emma Holly, quits her job at the start of the holiday and decides to check up on her widowed dad, who owns a bed and breakfast in the country. To their disappointment, the inn is due to be sold from lack of customers and and (shocker!) the potential buyer (read: property shark) happens to be the company the male love interest is employed for!
Welcome to the Holly Day Inn! We have doggies.
But what I love about this film is that the romance isn’t exclusive to the young main characters. The dad, Ben Holly (played by Colin Baker), is smitten with one of the cafe owners in town, Molly Hennings (Anita Dobson), who has a long-standing crush with him, too. For anyone craving a love story about older people (70+), I think this film will scratch that itch!
Ben volunteers to help Molly in her cafe.
What You Love About the Canon/Ships: As I said above, what puts this film on top for me is the secondary love story between Ben and Molly. I love how, despite his being a widow, he was given a second chance at love with someone who’d adored him since they were young.
Sugar and spice and everything nice.
Kinds of Things You're Planning to Ask For: Post-canon Ben/Molly fluff!, but I wouldn’t mind having a peek into their first time being intimate together (I’m sure it was full of laughs and aching bones!)