Vintage: Hallmark 2020 Summary: Aunt Dee splits her candy shop between her niece, Maggie, and maple farmer, Dex. Following letters Dee left, the two uncover the reason for her decision, during the Sweet Autumn festival. Cast Member Prestige: Nikki DeLoach has an IMDB page a mile long, but the only entry on it that matters is her 1993 stint on the Disney Channel’s New Mickey Mouse Club. Andrew Walker is a Hallmark Guy. Action: We open, as all the best Hallmark films do, with a memory. Picture it: Brattleboro, Vermont, circa 1990. Our heroine Maggie is but a wee child, frolicking outside with her sister Jodi. The girls’ caretaker, Aunt Dee, is doing some kind of “trial run” of selling her homemade candy right there on the lawn. Maggie and Jodi toodle meaningfully with a wooden music box of some kind. We’re meant to intuit that the box is somehow special, although we don’t yet understand how or why. (Spoiler: we will never understand how or why.) Flash to the present: Adult Maggie dines o...
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