Weekend Film: The Holiday Junkie

I finally started to put up a few holiday decorations and tonight I will be watching the holiday movie, The Holiday Junkie on the Lifetime Channel. This will be my second Lifetime Holiday movie I'll watch so far this season. The first was A Very Merry Beauty Salon which premiered last Saturday (I forgot to post it). It's a really cute movie that has a little bit of angst that stars Tia Mowry and RonReaco Lee that follows a beautician and a wine maker follow their hearts in business and romance. And fans of the TV series Sister, Sister will remember that Tia and RonReaco played characters Tia Landry and Tyreke Scott whose characters also dated on the show.

So for tonight's new movie The Holiday Junkie, it also looks really cute. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and her husband Brian Hallisay. The movie follows a holiday decorator and a house manager as they fall in love with the holiday and each other. For fans of the 9-1-1 TV series, there are a lot of little connections, Jennifer plays Maddie Han (formerly Buckley and Kendall) and Brian played Maddie's now late yet abusive husband Doug Kendall.

Also starring in the movie is Debra Christofferson who plays 9-1-1 Dispatch Manager Sue Blevins. And this movie includes the apartment where Evan "Buck" Buckley (Maddie's younger brother) lives and the 9-1-1 Costume Designer Alayna Bell-Price and Assistant Designer Gabrielle Giarrusso are both the Costumer Designers for this movie. And a couple of the 9-1-1 Makeup Artists: Rebecca Alling and Suzanne Diaz are apart of the movie's Makeup Department. And former 9-1-1 Set Decorator Sinead Clancy is the Production Designer for the movie. There could be more current or former 9-1-1 crew working on this but so far these are all the ones I've noticed.

So last week's movie had a connection to Sister, Sister and tonight's movie has a connection to 9-1-1.


The Holiday Junkie                                                 8:00 PM EST                                        Lifetime Channel

Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brian Hallisay, Greg Grunberg, Sarah Adina, Lynn Andrews, Ashley Cole, Debra Christofferson and more

Director: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Writer: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Anna White

Based On: A personal story from Jennifer Love Hewitt

Description:

Facing her first Christmas without her mother, Andie develops a budding romance with a handsome man who has holiday secrets.