Pour The Wine, It's Rom-Com Time

Hallmark's Passport to Love: Villa Amore

• Garry & Amy

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Pack your bags and pour the Chianti, Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time is off to Italy! When Liara’s dream honeymoon falls apart, she buys a one-euro villa on a whim. The catch? It’s a total wreck. Luckily, Leo, an ex-lawyer with a knack for power tools, is up for the challenge. Join Garry and Amy as they dive into Hallmark's Villa Amore, a heartwarming romance about love, renovation, and fresh starts in the Italian countryside.

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Amy:

Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's rom-com time where we'll sip some wine and review all things. Rom-com on the Homework channel. I'm Amy.

Garry:

And I'm Gary.

Amy:

And I think you should pour it.

Garry:

And I'm going to pour it.

Amy:

It's been a long day, if you knew what kind of afternoon we had getting to this point, but Pour the Wine, we're here, we're ready.

Garry:

Yes, we are man. Was it a hot day, or what?

Amy:

It was yeah, we're melting. We're all melting here on the East Coast, I think a large part of the country too.

Garry:

Yeah, yeah, maybe A big part of it.

Amy:

We would love it if you have time and you can go click that follow button on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss an episode. Yes, if you listen on Apple or Spotify. You can also leave us a review and fingers crossed, hopefully it's a positive review. Yes, but we would just appreciate any time you take out to you know, give us feedback, leave a comment, let us know what you think.

Garry:

Yeah, and how we're doing Well, you know know. Speaking of reviews, yeah, guess who just got another five star tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me oh, it was. This one was from mr christmas 25 and we love christmas. I'm so excited you know that's ironic right it is no, it's great I it's great.

Amy:

Serendipitous, one could say.

Garry:

Yes, serendipitous.

Amy:

Serendipity great movie.

Garry:

Yes, it is. You got me hooked on it and now it's my favorite Christmas movie.

Amy:

Well, I don't know your favorite Christmas movie.

Garry:

It's one that we have to watch, but it's up there, so you know what he said.

Amy:

Tell me.

Garry:

He said it reads Sorry. He said I love hearing your take on these movies. The format is super well done. Wishing you both success.

Amy:

That's so nice. You know how nice that is that is very nice and actually I really like hearing that because you know, our podcast is new.

Garry:

Yes, it is.

Amy:

And we worked on what kind of format we wanted to do, how we wanted to address it, and we do have like an outline.

Garry:

Yes, we do.

Amy:

That we generally follow and it keeps us on track. And the truth is, we love yes, we do Entertainment.

Garry:

Yes, we do.

Amy:

Entertainment.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

Movies. We watch tons of series and we love the Hallmark Channel.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

I mean, we have it on all the time. For a while we literally had it on all the time and we just find it's just a great escape.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

And we really do love it. So thank you so much, Mr Christmas 25, for that review. It was short, sweet, but it really meant a lot.

Garry:

Yes, it did.

Amy:

I think to both of us, because you know we love it, we love doing this.

Garry:

We sure do it's cool.

Amy:

Yeah, I'm here for it, thank you.

Garry:

Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr Christmas.

Amy:

You can also find us on social media, all the socials, facebook, instagram.

Garry:

Blue Sky Xthreads. What was that? That was all of the socials.

Amy:

It's been a day. I'm just excited that we got another review.

Garry:

I know it's very exciting. It's very exciting.

Amy:

And you know I love that it's positive. Of course, you know I'm sure eventually we'll get maybe not so positive.

Garry:

But we appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, let us know we're here for it. Yeah, we're willing to learn and yeah, and grow and change.

Amy:

And it's about grow, growth and change, and yeah cool, all right.

Garry:

Well, today we're reviewing the third passport to love movie, villa amore. That aired on the hallmark channel on saturday, june 21st 2025. If you missed it, you can catch it now on Hallmark Plus.

Amy:

You sure can. We're off to Italy, italy.

Garry:

Italy. All right, well, tell us who's in this one.

Amy:

All right, let's go. Kevin McGarry plays Leo. He, of course, is a Hallmark staple. He's widely known for his portrayal of Nathan Grant in 76 episodes of when Calls the Heart, between 2019 and 2025, or so far to the present.

Amy:

Some of his other hallmark work includes Reason for the Season, which we talk about a lot, in 2024, and Checking it Twice in 2023. He was in the three Wedding Veil movies in 2022 and 2023. He was in the series Heartland for 48 episodes between 2016-2021 and I believe his very first Hallmark appearance was in Signed Seal, delivered from Paris with Love in 2015.

Garry:

Yes, he owned a restaurant.

Amy:

I think that was the first one. Some of his other work includes an episode of Schitt's Creek in 2020.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

Taken. I will find you and I will kill you. He was in the series one episode in 2018. You have to do that every time we say Taken A series called Open Heart, 12 episodes in 2015. Eloise Mumford plays Liara. She's been in several Hallmark films, including Sweeter Than Chocolate in 2023, which is really cute.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

The in 2023, which is really cute. Yes, the presence of love in 2022. One december night in 2021 and christmas with holly in 2012. Some of her other work includes eight episodes of cross in 2024 do you know who she played in cross? No, I do not I don't know the character name, but she was the one who gets kidnapped. She's the one that I think it's ryan echo he tries to. He makes her into eileen warnos, the serial killer remember right, right right she's, that's her oh that's her she's so good in that.

Amy:

Okay, oh, my gracious, she's so good in that oh, yeah, all right, that freaked me out because kind of real, like you could yes, there are crazy, sick people out there.

Garry:

Yes, there is.

Amy:

But Cross is good in a good way, in an entertaining kind of way. She was also in eight episodes of the Right Stuff, a Disney series in 2020. Do you remember the movie Same name, the Right Stuff? It was based on the book.

Garry:

Yes, I remember About the first astronauts.

Amy:

Yes, yes, the Mercury 7.

Garry:

Yes, scott the Mercury 7.

Amy:

Yes, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Shearer, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton Okay. Yeah it's a really good movie. I'm sure Disney did a great job on the series and HBO actually had a great miniseries. Did you ever see that it was in the late 90s? It was these series. Did you ever see that it was in the late 90s? It was called from the earth to the moon and it was about the space program and the progression of everything that happened you know, from breaking the sound barrier, chuck gator breaking the sound barrier, and then the astronauts and yeah yeah, pretty cool, pretty cool.

Amy:

So I think she played one of the wives in that one. She was in all three three 50 shades movies 50 shades Shades of Grey, 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

And she was in the TV series the River eight episodes in 2012. We watched that. She got some acting credits man, jonathan Dillon King, plays Kyle Liara's fiance. This is his Hallmark premiere. He has about a dozen credits, including the Well in 2023, from Scratch, which was a Netflix miniseries, in 2022, where he appeared in six episodes and the series Kidding one episode in 2020. All right, megan Gay plays Marianne, which is Liara's mom. Was it Liara? Yes, liara.

Garry:

Am I pronouncing that right, liara?

Amy:

This is her Hallmark premiere. Her other work includes Das Netz, Prometheus in 2022, you Are Wanted for three episodes in 2018, Forget About Nick in 2017, and Hidden Hindenburg, the Last Flight, in 2013. That's a hard word to say. Aurora Cancion I'm probably mispronouncing that plays nona. She plays leo's nona. This is her hallmark premiere. Her other work includes a starry sky above the roman ghetto. Amore pensacci too. I don't want to embarrass myself with italian. She was in 14 episodes in 2017 and, interestingly enough, she does does a lot of Italian voice dubbing.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

So she did the voice dubbing for Spider-Man Homecoming in 2017. She voiced Anne-Marie Haig In Romeo and Juliet in 2013,. She voiced Bala and she did Grown Ups. She voiced Gloria in 2010. She did the italian dubbing.

Garry:

okay for the role gloria, I think that's pretty cool.

Amy:

Yeah, that's cool barbara venturato plays mia, which is liara's neighbor. This is her first hallmark production. She's an italian actress who has 11 acting credits, including this movie. She was in a tv series called doc for one episode in 2024 and invisiblevisible Witness in 2018.

Garry:

And again.

Amy:

I'm trying to just read the ones that I can pronounce or that were translated to English. On IMDb, Rafael Tati plays Alejandro. He's the concierge. He's an Italian actor and this is his Hallmark premiere. He had 10 episodes. Things listed on his IMDb, including Hangar in 2024 and Artificial Truth in 2023.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

Roberto Attias plays Enzo. He is the Italian real estate agent who sells the house for one euro. Right, Is it one euro?

Garry:

One euro.

Amy:

He's another Italian actor in his Hallmark premiere. He has two dozen acting credits, most in Italian, and again I'll just name the English ones. When I can. Studio Battaglia See, I shouldn't have done that one. One episode in 2022. He was in the series my Daughters, one episode in 2010. And Don Mateo two episodes in 2001 and 2008.

Garry:

Awesome, awesome.

Amy:

Now I'm going to take a sip. Now you take a sip. Man, awesome, awesome, now I'm going to take a sip. Now you take a sip.

Garry:

Man, that was a lot. That was a lot, so you want to dive into this?

Amy:

Let's dive in, let's do it.

Garry:

Well, let's talk about what you thought about it.

Amy:

Should we drop the synopsis first, oh.

Garry:

I did it again.

Amy:

Why don't you drop the synopsis?

Garry:

I did it again. You want to get? Right to it, we got to say what we're talking about.

Amy:

Oh my goodness, why don't you drop the synopsis?

Garry:

Okay, Liara goes to Italy and impulsively buys the villa where her parents met. She soon learns she is in way over her head and must ask a lawyer turned handyman to help her renovate. Ooh McGarry.

Amy:

Leo.

Garry:

This was filmed in early 2025 in Rome, italy, according to Kevin McGarry, which he spells his name Gary. The same way I do.

Amy:

That's his last name, though, I know, but it's two R's, that's right. Two R's, we roll it right, the crew was 100% Italian. Yep, yes, we said that in an interview. I think that's awesome.

Garry:

Man, I always do that, don't I? I always forget to drop the synopsis, the synopsis.

Amy:

Let's drop the synopsis. And we were just saying we have an outline that we follow Mostly do.

Garry:

I get so excited to jump into this.

Amy:

You want to get into what we thought?

Garry:

Yeah, my first takes. You want me to do mine first?

Amy:

Sure, if you want, okay, Go for it. I'm here to listen.

Garry:

So again, I love the on location shooting. Yes, I totally agree, it totally makes the movie.

Amy:

I agree.

Garry:

You know, with today's, you know special effects and everything. It's just good to just see some straight up shooting location. I love the friendliness of all the people in the movie the cast members. The friendliness yeah like how they treated each other the chemistry, yeah the chemistry.

Amy:

Yeah, the culture again. Oh yeah, I love the culture. Hold on a second. I see where you're going. I'm sorry, I have something in my throat. Drink some wine. Drink some wine.

Garry:

Yes and I just loved it.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, you did.

Garry:

Well, it's funny because we watched these twice right? Yes, I was going I don't know if I like this or not because I felt like there was a lot of cuts that didn't go together, and we'll talk about some of them later on in the podcast, but that was one of the things. But when we watched this second time, I was like, okay, well, this makes sense now to me. There's not so many. I didn't think there was a lot, so I may have had a little bit of change just a little tiny change, just a little bitty tiny.

Garry:

What about you? What did you?

Amy:

um, I'm so glad you brought up watching it twice, because we do. We watch it once because we want to enjoy it, as it was meant to be enjoyed.

Garry:

You know, we don't take any notes.

Amy:

I mean, we're kind of watching it with the eye of the review, but not really like. I really just like to take it in yeah, me too and then, um yeah, the first time was a little rough for me literally, it wasn't terrible, it wasn't bad it wasn't.

Garry:

We've seen worse no, the acting was great.

Amy:

Yeah, the acting was good. I really, really loved um, you know kevin and eloise together leo and liara I I loved them together. There were just some things that were kind of missing for me the first time and then, when we watched it the second time, I have a greater appreciation for it. Right, it's not that I enjoyed it more, because I did enjoy it the first time. I thought it was thoroughly enjoyable. I liked watching it. I thought their chemistry worked. I love the on-location shoots.

Amy:

Yeah, I love the other characters yeah and it were kind of funny and fun and you know it. Just it worked better for me the second time. Yeah as well, which we'll get into more, yeah well, a little bit.

Garry:

Well, let's talk about the meat cute, the meat cute. All right, let's talk about what did you think about that?

Amy:

was it poor affection for you? Do you see what?

Garry:

I did there perfection p-o-u-r.

Amy:

I get it, I get it, yeah, I I actually really thought it was cute yeah, I thought her going into the pastry shop she's speaking english right, and she she kind of startles.

Garry:

Leo, he's working under the sink I guess, yeah, I think he's trying to fix the, he's trying to fix the leak, or whatever really yeah.

Amy:

And then he, he bumps his head, he's coming out.

Garry:

Yeah, because she kind of startles him and then he says something italian and she's, and she says something like oh, I'm english or or something. I don't speak italian. And then he starts to speak Italian.

Amy:

Or English, right, right. And she's like oh okay, yeah, it was pretty cute the meet, cute was cute. I didn't mean to use cute again, but yeah.

Garry:

Yeah, I know Well whatever.

Amy:

I enjoyed it. I thought they did great on the meet cute.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

What about some favorite scenes? Do you have some favorite scenes?

Garry:

I sure do.

Amy:

All right, you want to talk about one, two, 10, 20? I don't know.

Garry:

I want to just talk about the scenes between Nona and Enzo.

Amy:

They were so good, they were really good, yeah, yeah. So like the whole arc of that was good.

Garry:

Because she is like he was banned from the restaurant and he would always sneak in the pastry shop.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

When she would go in the back. He would come in and get a coffee or a pastry or something, and then she would come out, catch him and be like you know, Then the one time when she peeked up her head from behind the counter and he saw her there.

Amy:

That was so cute. Yes, I enjoyed that also. Their interactions, I thought, were really good.

Garry:

What was one of yours?

Amy:

Okay, so I love. First of all, I don't. Would you go on a honeymoon?

Garry:

By myself.

Amy:

By yourself, like if you were going to get married and then something happened like what happened. And then would you?

Garry:

No.

Amy:

I don't know if I would go by myself. I'm not a good traveler by myself, but I should be.

Garry:

I would probably take someone because you probably couldn't get your money back, so you might as well go Well it's true, she probably had another seat. I didn't think about that, right, so I would take someone, because I enjoy it when I'm with somebody you know.

Amy:

Like.

Garry:

I've traveled a lot by myself. Yeah, you have, and I've done things like I'll go see a movie by myself, but yes, it's not the same right, you know when you have somebody to laugh with or somebody to you know point out things when you're walking down a street. It's just. It's just better, because pictures to me don't don't do it justice, right, and I'm I'm too scared well, yes, there's that aspect of it too is, and I know like our kids, we've raised wonderfully independent, strong girls you and they have good head on their shoulders.

Amy:

I know they don't too often do things there, you know, and they're really smart about it, but they're much braver than I would be in terms of traveling alone.

Garry:

They just go wherever they want to go. Yeah, yeah.

Amy:

So I mean it's not that I never did. I mean I I did sometimes, but not. I just prefer it. I I don't. I don't know if I would. I think emotionally I'd be able to do it right I, I think I would have that in me. You know it wouldn't be like the oh, it's supposed to be my honeymoon, but you know well and and the other.

Garry:

The other part of that is just the language like and the language barrier in america. We really don't teach a second language, the way we should, you're right. And for all y'all that are foreigners in other countries. It's not arrogance I would have loved to, but they don't teach it early on, right? It's just not. Yeah, you know what I mean, and it really sucks.

Amy:

Well, it does. It's just when you go overseas. Different countries are so much closer together and enmeshed, and I think it's almost a necessity, you know, but that's my opinion anyway.

Garry:

Everybody speaks English.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, and that's the hardest language to learn, right?

Garry:

Okay, right.

Amy:

So that was so one scene from me. I haven't told my senior oh okay.

Garry:

I'm sorry so we went off on a tangent. We went off on a tangent.

Amy:

Okay, so she goes on her honeymoon by herself. She goes in the room and the room is all decorated and whatnot and she is kind of sad. That would be a little hurtful right. But then she's sitting on her like little patio.

Garry:

Yes, and she's enjoying on the balcony.

Amy:

Yes, Thank you, and she's just enjoying just the scenery I just loved it, oh it was beautiful. And then, when she picks up the bottle and drinks from the bottle, I'm like that is my girl, right there.

Garry:

That is her. Yes, yes, I am here for that.

Amy:

Now, I would do that.

Garry:

Yeah, I believe you. Yeah, that was a good scene. Yeah, that was a good scene. Yeah, I thought that was cool.

Amy:

I just thought that scene was pretty cute and fun. And yeah, so another one was just you talked about it, the scenery which is going around all the architecture Again. We're such a baby of a country here.

Garry:

Yes, we are.

Amy:

Everywhere else it is beautiful. I would go to Italy. Yeah, Now I could eat the food there.

Garry:

Oh, I would love I mean, I love me a pasta. It would go straight to my hips, but it would be fun.

Amy:

The wine and the pasta, yeah, yes, but so I loved all those shots Also, like at the beginning, when she's kind of roaming around and she's and her mom's on the phone and kind of narrating some parts of it. When she's seeing different tourist spots. See, I had that too as a favorite.

Garry:

That was my favorite scene because I loved how her mom said yeah, you know, we went to the what was it, where they did painting, street art and she goes, but we didn't buy anything. And then she bought it. She bought it, yeah, and then there was another one when she said pizza or something.

Amy:

Oh, so her mom.

Garry:

She said I know you love Chicago pizza, but you got to try the real thing, the real thing and she did, and there was a couple of others that her mom didn't do, but then she did, yeah.

Amy:

And I thought that was a pretty good added bonus. And we know I love Chicago pizza. Now I know you do. Don't come for my Chicago pizza. There was some Chicago pizza in this one. Don't come for my sauce on the top Chicago pizza. Where's the cheese? It's under the sauce. Ew, the sauce. Hello, that was another good scene. Yeah, don't go for my pizza. Now we're gonna. Those will be fighting words right there. Uh, let's see another. Um, the first view of the house yes when she buys, it.

Amy:

Oh my goodness like a dump it reminded me of the movie the money pit.

Garry:

Yeah yeah, yeah, you know where she walks up and Can you imagine that At every turn something breaks and you're like, oh my goodness.

Amy:

Did you have any other favorites?

Garry:

Oh yeah, when the town gets together to watch the football game.

Amy:

Yes, that was really cute. I love the community of it all you know.

Garry:

And she shows up and you can see the look on his face. He was so happy and he gives her a ball cap and they're screaming at the at the tv.

Amy:

Yeah, that was really fun and then, when they scored, I was like you were cheering right along, so that was another one um, I also loved when they went through um the toll booth.

Garry:

Yeah, and they yes, the toll booth would say something. And they were like basta.

Amy:

And they said it's like tradition or something for them to do.

Garry:

I looked it up. It says enough, but I thought that they said something else shut up, or something. I'm not sure which one it is but I thought that was a funny added clip. Yeah.

Amy:

I really liked another scene or scenes when she's riding her bike around town. Now, you and I just watched the movie the english patient yes, which? Is not a hallmark movie, but it's an academy award-winning best film movie. Um, and it was. You know it's. It looks dated now, of course, like most of them do, but it's so beautifully shot. And and um, juliette binoche, who who's one of the stars in it, or co-star I guess she rides her bike through that town that they're in I don't even know they're not in england, I don't think.

Amy:

I don't know what countryside they're in, but she, she rides her, but she, they find this abandoned house that she stays in and she finds the bike there right and she rides, and so that kind of reminded me of that would be kind of cool to just not drive everywhere, I mean if it was close enough. Right To bike around in the countryside. Bike into the small town.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

You know it just kind of. I liked that, I thought that was really cool. And, of course, the olive oil making scene, oh, that was pretty cool. I thought that was pretty cool. I had no idea.

Garry:

I don't think I've ever watched anybody make olive oil, or not even now we know youtube or something, yeah, we don't have any olive trees, uh well, no, we don't but that's okay. How about when they first turned the power onto the house? Yes, I have that as one of my.

Amy:

I thought that was really. Oh, you mean the scene where where which scene are you talking about? Um where the where the electrician is.

Garry:

Yes, lara is down the other end of the hallway and she's getting a phone call from Kyle.

Amy:

And the two.

Garry:

The Leo calls her down the hallway and they turn it on and she says something and the Italian electrician was like huh. And she was like go ahead, turn it on and she turns it on and the lights come on and they're all cheering. They're excited and all of a sudden it goes. That was kind of funny. Yeah, I enjoyed that. The electrician goes stomping off saying something in italian. That was funny, that was yeah, that was cute.

Amy:

When you said the lights on, I thought you meant when she comes home from a date, I think with leo.

Garry:

I mean, was it the soccer game? I can't remember.

Amy:

They come, yes back to the house and she finally has electricity and all the houses lit up.

Garry:

Yeah, it looked gorgeous too.

Amy:

Would you buy a house for one euro, by the way?

Garry:

You know that's so crazy because I have that exact same thing. Do you have that as a question?

Amy:

Yes, what do you have?

Garry:

I said we should buy a one euro home.

Amy:

I guess. So you know, I'm not like mechanically or artistically or refurbishingly inclined. Right have we met.

Garry:

Well, what's funny is she sleeps. Not that I wouldn't love to do it. She sleeps there and the house has been abandoned for like 25 years.

Amy:

Right, we're going to get there. Yeah, yeah, all right. Yeah, yeah, we're going to get there. All right, let's talk about it. She goes on that couch. I can't stand it. I don't know how she laid on that couch. It's been 25 years since somebody's been in there.

Garry:

I know right, we may as well.

Amy:

Talk about it right now.

Garry:

I mean, just think about the critters. I mean it's an open house. Things could get in, Things can get out.

Amy:

I don't know when she laid down, I was like, oh don't do it. The bugs, the whatever's in there, there could be pet bugs.

Garry:

There could be rain. Smell must will do. I am such a creature of comfort I'm telling you I could not, if you would have said, hey, we're going to stay in this house.

Amy:

I would have been like bye.

Garry:

I'll see you in the town. I'm going to stay at Mia's down the street.

Amy:

You know what I down the street, you know, yeah, my neighbor hello I know you're pregnant, but you have to, you have to host me because I'm not sleeping in that over there. You've been over there. Yeah, that was, that was pretty. Yeah, I, I, I don't think I could do that that's funny definitely, definitely not yeah, but you know what?

Garry:

she worked that house and got him her and uh, leo got it up and running, didn't they?

Amy:

well, we're gonna talk about that.

Garry:

Yeah, they did so you want to jump into cheers, biggest cheers sure all right, what did you have?

Amy:

um, we kind of talked about it. One of the cheers was when she's walking around the town doing the touristy things and her mom. I just thought that whole scene worked yeah, I just loved from the architecture, the scenery, her mom being like go like a narration slightly, but it's as though she's talking to her a lot and she's not, and she does the fountain. I just thought all of that really worked. I really liked that. That would be one. What about you?

Garry:

I just have to say bocce.

Amy:

Oh.

Garry:

The donkey.

Amy:

I didn't get the donkey thing, I just thought he was. You brought it up. I had to admit it.

Garry:

He was the donkey in the room right Instead of the elephant in the room. But I just like I just it was just something there. You know, I know I don't know Goats and sheeps and stuff like that.

Amy:

I guess I just felt like he was kind of cool.

Garry:

Well, Leo came around.

Amy:

I just didn't get it. Well, leo's not botchy, hello.

Garry:

No, I'm talking about he liked botchy.

Amy:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just yeah, okay. I mean, I have to accept it. It's your cheer, it's not mine.

Garry:

I know it's mine. And another one was when you talk about her mother. Um, I thought it was funny when, uh, when she first saw the house, uh, liara, she told her mom to uh, to point the phone at it, right. So she points the phone at it and she's like mom, yeah, yeah, that was funny. I think I had that too. Yeah, so I just thought that that's actually us.

Amy:

We're not quite boomers, but you know it's like the kids would be like turn it around, push the button, push the button, the button right there. Yeah, that was. That was kind of a cute little play on the modern technology and the age difference, Right.

Garry:

Right, did you have another?

Amy:

one Like I um another cheer the chemistry I thought between the two of them, between Liara and Leo, really worked. I really like them both as actors and I just thought their smiles are so genuine and kind. I love that they had and I'm going into another cheer since we're talking about them is that they had Leo. You know he wasn't like this super jealous guy. He didn't get angry, he didn't kiss her right away, he waited to make sure that she was really broken up with her. You know ex-fiance with Kyle and I just I enjoyed that relationship, part of it.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

As that would be a big old cheer for me. And, of course, the park scene with a kiss. Oh yeah, you know, they made him a really good guy. I just all of that worked for me.

Garry:

That was the day. That was Sunday, when no one does anything. Oh, right, right, right, he says so lean on me, let's sit back and look up and do nothing.

Amy:

And do nothing. That sounds lovely, doesn't it? Yeah, no phones, I really like too. Just one more. A cheer would be when she's just like, kind of like what you were just talking about. She's sitting in her courtyard, the sun is shining and she just has a bottle of wine on the table.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And she's looking at the donkey, you know, or whatever. And she's just being in the moment right, and we've seen a few movies like that recently.

Garry:

Just be in the moment, enjoy it, listen to nature, even if your house is falling apart. Yeah, yeah.

Amy:

I know, yeah. So several big cheers there, several big cheers, of course, Chicago, I know Can we talk about the pizza.

Garry:

We talked about the pizza you want to talk about the pizza.

Amy:

You want to talk about the pizza again.

Garry:

No, when she was taking it over to Mia, and then Mia ended up having to go rush to the hospital.

Amy:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Garry:

And then they go through the toll booth again and again. Oh, the toll booth.

Amy:

They both and even Mia in labor, whatever the word is. Yeah, so that was cute. It's like, come on, go, go, go yeah.

Garry:

Another Another one of my chairs was when they found out, because the postal lady brought over a box of letters and stuff that had collected over the years and Leo found a letter from her dad yeah, from Liara's dad and he did try to buy.

Amy:

Yeah, that was pretty cool.

Garry:

The villa, and the reason he didn't was he ran out of time and had to leave the country. Yep, yep didn't, was he ran out of time and had to leave the country?

Amy:

Yep, yep. And I love that. I love that full circle moment of the letter coming at the end.

Garry:

I wasn't expecting that. I was not either.

Amy:

When she brought all that mail it wasn't even on my radar that maybe he had tried to buy it or written a letter. It should have been, but it really wasn't. That was like a surprise to me.

Garry:

So I enjoyed that. Because apparently you only get 90 days in the country and then you have to well, that part might be true, but like, if you buy a house, you have three months to get it up to the specs.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, yeah you have to renovate it in the first three months and have to be done in a year yeah, and then you'll get fine.

Garry:

I wonder if that's true.

Amy:

I don't know, I think it is.

Garry:

We should look that up, yeah because they have an app for it.

Amy:

So I would assume that is true why do you look at the app you're just talking about?

Garry:

no, there was a couple apps there that they have oh, okay, you get so many days and then you have to you know, get out. Oh, that's cool, yeah, and I, my last year was when um liaro, she, she was sitting outside and I think this was the same one, and she took her phone and it was a picture of Bocce and she goes. She changed it to her and Leo and told Bocce.

Amy:

Oh, the same scene I was just talking about, oh yeah, it might have been where she was sitting out there with the wine and she made it her and.

Garry:

Leo and she said, don't worry, yeah and I also.

Amy:

I really like the song. I had to look it up. I think it's the song that plays when she's touring the town. It's um a song called lights on by carrie, with a k k-a-r-i kimmel. Okay, I just really liked it. It reminded me of um carly jespin's call me maybe yes, that's what I thought it was. That's what I thought maybe it was at first but yeah, carrie kimmel lights on is the song, if anybody's interested there you go there you go. What about, jeers, what you got?

Garry:

any jeers, I'm gonna coin this word. Okay, oh boy. Okay, it's the unmeet cute unmeet.

Amy:

Cute, we're coining. Talked about that I'm coining the word here. Okay, you're coining the word yes, the unmeet cute Okay. You did say that.

Garry:

Douchebag Kyle.

Amy:

Right.

Garry:

He wants to go to Thailand.

Amy:

He said douchebag, alone Kyle.

Garry:

Right Instead of with his fiance to Italy. How crazy is that?

Amy:

Well, I just didn't buy it. I know I didn't. You know, most of the movie worked. Yes, that scene did not work for me. No, because he comes in and he's like I traded in my ticket, yeah, and I'm going to Thailand to find my. I just thought it was.

Garry:

You would have whooped up on me. I would have been like no, no, no, no, no.

Amy:

I just did not.

Garry:

I didn't think that worked in the movie. That was one of the scenes I didn't like.

Amy:

Right, right, that would be. That was a jeer for me.

Garry:

And then when he comes back, I didn't like that either.

Amy:

Well, he's a little stalkerish.

Garry:

He's like you didn't turn off your location location. Yeah, I don't think they needed to put that in there. I think the movie was moving along. After that point, I'd love the rest of the movie. Yeah, and they didn't have to bring right right, I just thought it was right well, you always got to have that sort of you know is she?

Amy:

is she not? Is she done? Is she not done? Um, one of my jeers would have been when leo gives liara a handful of stuff, like he gives her a box and the paint and you, you know when she decides she's going to stay and then he just leaves.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

He's like, and she knows no one Right. She literally has no transportation, she's no electricity. Yep, how is she going to eat?

Garry:

Exactly, he's just like here you go.

Amy:

Bye.

Garry:

Felicia.

Amy:

And he wasn't like. He was like well, I mean, I gotta go. This is your thing, you know, and I was like you would leave someone, like that, but of course she just met him, so it was kind of strange that he was there. I don't know, I just thought that was a little bit.

Garry:

Yeah, it was a little.

Amy:

We already talked about how there is zero chance. I am staying in a house without electricity, no indoor plumbing and making me sleep on a couch that is 25 years old Never happening.

Garry:

I get you, I hear you, because I wouldn't either. I wouldn't either, especially without checking it out and you know, hitting it with a broom or something and cleaning it off, at least making sure there's no other bugs on the thing.

Amy:

Oh my God, all I kept thinking was bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs and no indoor plumbing. Where'd she go?

Garry:

I know.

Amy:

And I just yeah, and I know it's homework and I'm supposed to suspend all reality, but this is real. People buy houses all the time. That are you know.

Garry:

Ones they have to renovate.

Amy:

Yeah, and it's just like I don't.

Garry:

And then there's another scene where she says her phone is dead and he's like bye. And then he just leaves and I'm like, but she's out there in the middle of nowhere. To his defense she did say, but I'm gonna go in town and I'll.

Amy:

I know. I know he's like okay, see you later, and he gets in his truck I know so those were you. You said the thing about kyle, and then those were a few of my cheers, but yeah and then also I really you know just the two of them working on the house yes, well, there was three. There was electrician well, I guess it was supposed to be over three months but. I mean would you get that much done?

Garry:

you can oh okay, I mean, I don't know if you're always working. It depends on what I mean. You know, I don't know.

Amy:

Yeah, I mean, yeah, okay, I stand corrected.

Garry:

Well, I had one more, and that was the bike. Okay, when a bike? Where did she get a bike from?

Amy:

Well, it could have just been okay. Now see, I totally bought that because of the English patient.

Garry:

We already talked about that. Okay, but it was 25 years, okay, there would have been no air in the tire.

Amy:

That is a good point. That's a really good point.

Garry:

Unless Mia, let her borrow it. I don't know.

Amy:

Maybe We'll just go with that, I don't know. But that's a really good point that you bring up, I'll admit it. Thank you, that was a good cheer. There was one, I thought that they were in, like this remote, beautiful hilly.

Garry:

Hillside Villa, countryside.

Amy:

Until she goes to leave with Mia in the car when Mia goes into labor, right? And she goes to Liara, goes to drive her and is never driven, and then, as she's driving like the road is right outside of the hedges yeah, right what.

Garry:

I was confused.

Amy:

She didn't have to go down any dirt roads there was a road and then there was like another highway behind that. And I again was like what.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

So I was, but that was my own misconception of where they were. I guess Right, so that I'll own that one yeah.

Garry:

And you pointed that out and I was like oh yeah look at that. There's cars going by, but that's okay.

Amy:

Yeah, and the whole. You know we didn't talk about this as I had a couple more things that I really enjoyed. It was when you kind of mentioned the post office lady Mm-hmm, and she wins her over.

Garry:

Yes, I like that storyline of that. That was a good storyline.

Amy:

The postal lady was kind of harsh at first and then came around to it Mm-hmm. And then the very end when the whole town runs to her.

Garry:

Yes, that was kind of fun. She's on the bus getting ready to leave. And cute and, yeah, I enjoyed it. Leo is out of breath because he's like I got to run more.

Amy:

Yeah yeah, that was kind of funny. He's like ooh yeah.

Garry:

Well, she also wins over Nona too. So I thought that was good.

Amy:

Yeah, and Nona kind of sticks up for her with uh, with uh, enzo, enzo remember.

Garry:

yeah, yes, yep because you think enzo kind of did her dirty right, right, but he ended up being a pretty cool dude.

Amy:

Well, he says did I not find someone for?

Garry:

your grandson yes so he kind of set it up, he did it on purpose allegedly maybe Nona was like hmm, okay, I'll let you slide, let you slide, and he gets let back into the bakery. So I thought that was cool.

Amy:

Yeah, that was pretty cool. Yeah, he's allowed in.

Garry:

Yeah he's allowed back in, so did you have anything else?

Amy:

I think that might wrap it up for me. What about for you? Did you have any?

Garry:

oh-by-the-ways? No, I think that might wrap it up for me. What about for you? Did you have any oh-by-the-ways? No, I think that was it we talked about the scene cuts yeah. Well, there was one. I want to talk about this real quick. Okay Is when she had fallen off the ladder and he brought her back to his place, right, and she got to take a shower, and he gave her some anti-inflammatory medicine, right and some you know anti-inflammatory medicine.

Garry:

Right and he's leaving and she goes where are you going? And he goes well, I have to do another job. And she said oh so you're cheating on the villa. And he's like, well, you know, it's just a sink and it's a fling, it's just a fling, or whatever.

Amy:

Yeah, they were joking around.

Garry:

But he gets in his truck, right they driving somewhere, and he's back at the house and I'm like what?

Amy:

oh, I totally. So that was like an edit, weird editing. It was a weird edit.

Garry:

It's like he left, I missed and when the next scene was the car pulling up and I thought he was at the different house, but it was actually back where he started right that's it that's right.

Amy:

Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, okay, I get it.

Garry:

Yeah, I get it, I got. So, out of five quirks, what would you rate this?

Amy:

Probably lower if I had based it on my first one.

Garry:

Yes, Me too. It would have been in the threes, I think.

Amy:

I'm going to. I would do a solid four.

Garry:

Yeah, I think so too.

Amy:

I came around to enjoy it. I can suspend the whole working on the house thing a little bit, leo leaving her thing a little bit, so I was going to go 3.75, but I mean I enjoyed it actually.

Garry:

The acting was great.

Amy:

I liked their chemistry so yeah, I'd give it a solid four Okay.

Garry:

What about you? I'd give it a four too.

Amy:

Samers, samers. Is that a wrap?

Garry:

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Amy:

We hope it's a positive one. Be sure to join us next Wednesday for our review of the final 2025 Passport to Love movie, a Machu Picchu Proposal. It airs on Saturday, june 28th 2025 on the Hallmark channel. You can also join us on tinsel Tuesdays for our Hallmark reviews of all things Christmas oh.

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