Vintage: Hallmark, 2022 Summary: Sarah is a children’s book author who returns to her hometown, where she reconnects with her family and Travis, her teenage crush. She soon discovers that a long-held family legend might actually be true. Cast member prestige: Our lead actress is Sarah Ramos, who I know as Haddie Braverman from Parenthood but who now also does some kind of performance art on TikTok and curates photography exhibits of her childhood snapshots with celebrities. Also featured: Marilu Henner, who we last saw in Love on a Limb . We open on a book shop in an anonymous Big City, where our heroine Sarah Grace is reading from her bestselling children’s novel Isabella’s Kismet Cookies in front of a rapt crowd of children in matching cosplay. The camera zooms in and we see that the book in question appears to feature two heroic children fighting some kind of giant sea creature. There are oversized cardboard standees, none of the children in the audience are screaming, and none of ...
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