Hallmark Movies Now is out to help you make the most of the last warm days with its “Savor the Summer” event happening in August. As Crown Media Family Networks’ fast-growing subscription streaming service, it’s adding 10 additional Hallmark movies throughout the month, including the exclusive premiere of HIgh Flying Romance on August 1, so you can start your month off right and finish the summer on a good note.
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE
“High Flying Romance”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 1, 2021
Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Christopher Russell
Music teacher Hannah Adams is pleasantly surprised when she meets her older sister’s friend, woodworker Gavin McQueen, who just moved back to their hometown with his nine-year old daughter, Parker. Hannah quickly discovers she shares not only an interest in kite making for the annual kite festival with Gavin, but also a love for making music with his daughter. Complications arise in their blossoming relationship when Gavin’s high school girlfriend Katie, decides she wants more than a commission on the recent transfer of his parents’ house. She wants Gavin back and will do whatever it takes to rekindle their romance. But who will own his heart?
“The Bounce Back”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 1, 2021
Stars: Nadine Velazquez, Shemar Moore
Father, author and relationship expert, Matthew Taylor is on a whirlwind book tour promoting his new best seller, The Bounce Back. He has got is all figured out until he meets the acerbic Kristin Peralta, a talk show circuit therapist who is convinced he is nothing but a charlatan. Matthew’s list is turned upside down when he inadvertently falls for Kristin and must face a painful truth of his past relationship.
“Surprised by Love”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 1, 2021
Stars: Hilarie Burton, Paul Campbell
As a young businesswoman tries to convince her uptight parents to approve of her current boyfriend, she finds herself questioning her own life choices and falling for an old high school flame. Over her parent’s 40th anniversary weekend, she must decide which direction her life – romantic and otherwise – is going to take.
“Hailey Dean Mystery: Deadly Estate”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 1, 2021
Stars: Kellie Martin, Nancy Grace, Viv Leacock
After her fiancé is murdered, Hailey Dean becomes one of the country’s most revered felony prosecutors. When the former attorney-turned-therapist helps her close friend, Pam, sell the estate of Pam’s parents, she falls head-first into a harrowing mystery. Without notice, Pam disappears on a “dream vacation.” But that dream vacation turns into a nightmare for Hailey, who is convinced her long-time friend is a victim of foul play.
“A Novel Romance”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 8, 2021
Stars: Amy Acker, Dylan Bruce
Liam Bradley, a romance novelist with writer’s block retreats to a small town in Portland to find inspiration for the follow-up to his previous bestselling books. He instead finds himself falling in love with Sophie Atkinson, a local book reviewer, herself recovering from a relationship with another public figure. The two struggles with their fears of revealing truths about themselves – just as the writer’s public revelation from behind his pseudonym is about to take place, threatening their romance.
“Wedding at Graceland”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 8, 2021
Stars: Kellie Pickler, Wes Brown
Laurel Cooper and Clay Sheppard have just three weeks to plan their wedding that will take place at Elvis Presley’s celebrated Memphis home. However, when both sets of in-laws-to-be, each with vastly different personalities and ideas for the wedding, descend upon Memphis to “help” plan the nuptials, the bride and groom-to-be are pushed to the breaking point
“Hailey Dean Mystery: Dating is Murder”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 8, 2021
Stars: Kellie Martin, Nancy Grace, Viv Leacock
When a string of unsolved disappearances all ties to the same popular dating app, prosecutor-turned-therapist Hailey Dean is on the case. With the help of detectives Danny Morgan and Fincher Garland – and even her adventure-adverse boyfriend Jonas – Hailey uses her uncanny ability to read people and acute observation skills to investigate the case. After receiving little help from the dating app’s creators Wade and Jessica, Hailey goes undercover to meet with app users, finding herself in precarious situations along the way.
“Eat, Play, Love”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 15, 2021
Stars: Jen Lilley, Jason Cermak
Dr. Carly Monroe returns to her Minnesota hometown to take over her grandpa Isaac’s veterinary practice and volunteers at the local animal shelter, run by brother and sister Dan and Michelle Landis. Dan’s insufferable girlfriend gets a job in New York and announces that they will be getting married, and Dan will be moving with her, Michelle enlists Carly’s help to make Dan stay put. Though he is too oblivious to notice it at first, Dan comes to realize that his dog-hating girlfriend has him on a leash that needs to be broken so that he can follow his heart into the arms of his forever soul mate.
“For Better or For Worse”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 8, 2021
Stars: Lisa Whelchel, Antonio Cupo, Kim Fields
Opposites attract when Wendy a wedding coordinator and Marco a divorce attorney find their lives suddenly intertwined. Wendy’s business and values are challenged when the charming and incredibly irritating Marco opens shop as a divorce attorney right next to her wedding chapel. Although Wendy will stop at nothing to promote her marriage business over Marco’s divorce business, she must form an alliance with Marco after her son Colin announces his unexpected engagement to Marco’s daughter Sophia
“Karen Kingsbury’s: A Time to Dance”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 22, 2021
Stars: Jennie Garth, Dan Payne
Abby and John Reynolds are a married couple who have been together since their days as high school sweethearts. Though their seemingly perfect marriage is the envy of their peers, the truth is that they have fallen out of love, and plan to announce their impending divorce during their daughter Nicole’s upcoming college break. But John and Abby’s plan takes a turn when an elated Nicole surprises them with an announcement that she has gotten engaged. Not wanting to put a damper on Nicole’s cherished event, John and Abby agree to wait until after her wedding to tell her about their divorce.
“Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery”
Available to stream starting Sunday, August 22, 2021
Stars: Courtney Thorne-Smith, James Tupper
Emma is a brilliant, dedicated, and driven archaeologist who discovers artifacts that have been lost for hundreds of years. Emma has recently unearthed evidence of a possible 17th century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years. But the dead body she uncovers on the site pushes Emma into a different kind of exploration. Her dig site is suddenly in jeopardy of being shut down, due to the meddling of local treasure-hunters and a second suspicious murder. Emma must team with the handsome FBI Agent investigating the case to dig up dirt on the killer before Emma and her excavation are ancient history.