Hallmark's I'll Be Seeing You

Garry and Amy are hitting the road, suitcases packed and ready for adventure! In this episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, they dive into the 2026 Spring Into Love finale, Hallmark's I’ll Be Seeing You. When a work emergency disrupts Amy’s (Stacey Farber) plans for a weekend with her grandmother Vivien (Christine Ebersole), Vivien pivots with a plan of her own. She joins Amy on the road trip with a secret plan to teach her a few lessons about life and love. She even brings along her spirited retirement community best friend, Sue (BJ Harrison), for the ride. Things take an unexpected turn when their car breaks down, and they’re rescued by Mark (Tyler Hynes), who rolls in with his vintage van, Mable. What follows is a journey packed with laughter, heartfelt moments, and a few surprises along the way proving that sometimes the best destinations are the ones you never planned.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:07

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.

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And I'm Gary.

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And tonight, you know, we're drinking a Chardonnay. Chardonnay. And I just have to say, I won't say the name of the wine, but I will say the label has the picture of a beach and someone in a, you know, and someone's sunning. And I'm like, oh, give me the beach days now. I know. We keep getting teased with it.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

I know. Today is terrible. It's like 50 degrees, windy, and rainy, and yesterday was beautiful. It was like 80 something.

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I know. It's the crazy weather.

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The world is going on with this crazy weather.

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I know. It's like we we were out most of yesterday outside, and then we step inside for like an hour or two, and the temperature dropped like 20 degrees.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

It was like, what in the world?

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I'm just ready. I love fall and winter, but now I'm just at the point where I'm ready for summer weather. I don't want 50 degrees. You had your chance. Let's move on.

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Yeah, move on.

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Plead to the weather gods. I want 70s, it's fine, but I'm ready for 80. You know, I'll be complaining when it's too hot, obviously.

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Don't we?

SPEAKER_03 1:23

But right now, yeah. Too hot, too cold. We're gonna pour this Chardonnay because it has a picture of a beach on it, and I am ready for it. Today it's rainy and 50.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

All right. Shall we get into it?

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Let's do it.

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All right. You can send us an email to pour the wine it's rom cum time at gmail.com and let us know your thoughts about the spring into love movies. We're gonna be talking about the very last one of 2026 today. Or you can send us your thoughts about anything homework related. We would love to hear from you.

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Yes, we would drop us a line.

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Today, as I just mentioned, we're going to be reviewing the final and probably the most highly anticipated Spring Into Love movie of 2026. I'll Be Seeing You. It originally aired on the Homework Channel on Saturday, April 25th, 2026. You can see it right now on Hallmark Plus. And it stars Christine Ebersall, Tyler Hines, Stacy Farber, and BJ Harrison. The Powerhouse 4, right? What a cast. This is also Tyler's first time as an executive producer on a Hallmark film.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

Yeah, it's pretty cool. And I want to mention something else. Now, when we were watching this movie, you know, you and I talk a lot about the music, but we don't often talk about who the composer is.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Right.

SPEAKER_03 2:51

Or composers are, or who, you know, um, and we say whether we liked it or didn't like it. But I did, you know, I really did like the music, both instrumental and the songs in this one.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Yeah.

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And so I looked up the composer, and the composer is Sean William.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Okay.

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Shout out to Sean. But what's interesting is is he also has composed for Hope Valley 1874.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Oh wow.

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The Way to You, which we loved, and we talked about the music in that one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Yeah.

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Christmas at the Catnip Cafe, Adventures in Love and Birding, June Bug, just to name a few. So now I know why I like the music so much.

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There you go. There you go.

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Yeah. Yeah. Just thought I would throw that in there. Little drops. Little tippies. Little drop.

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I'll be seeing you was directed by Jessica Harmon and Joey Elkins and written by Blake Silver. And you know.

SPEAKER_03 3:48

No, it was. I think Joey Elkins and Blake Silver wrote it.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Oh, yes. Sorry. My bad. I read it wrong.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

It was directed.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

Let me start that over. Let me go backwards. What are they like? I'll be seeing you was directed by Jessica Harmon. And Joey Elkins and Blake Silver collaborated on the writing. Wrote it. Sorry about that.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

You had two directing. That's all right. That's all right. We got it. We got it straight.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

Well, let's go ahead and drop the synops on this one. Let's move on.

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Alrighty. When a work Aaron derails Amy's weekend plans with her grandma, they embark on a road trip with one sentimental detour, but need the help of a charming activities director.

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And how charming he is.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

I wonder who the charming activities director was.

Plot Premise And First Reactions

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So we'll probably give away some spoilers. We're going to try not to, but if we do, this is a time to stop the podcast. Go watch it. Come back, turn us on, and let us know what you think. How about that? Whew. Okay. So what did you think about I'll be seeing you?

SPEAKER_03 5:04

I'll be seeing you. Well, first, so this is about Amy, right? She's gonna go spend a long weekend with her grandma at Somerville Meadows, and her grandma's played by the iconic Christine Ebersall.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Somerville Meadows is a retirement community community, but Amy gets a call about work. So she has to go and convince an in an inventor to sign with her firm, right? So her grandma is like, Oh, you're going on a road trip. I'm gonna go with you, because her grandma has an ulterior motive, right? And the road, and it's like a nine-hour drive that they have to go on.

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Right.

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Right.

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So Vivian is the grandma. She says she wants to go on the road trip to particularly to a city called Keystone. She wants to make a stop there, but she won't tell them why. And she wants to invite her friend that lives in the retirement community, also Sue, who is played by BJ Harrison.

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Harrison.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

I want to say BJ Armstrong because I was a Bulls fan when I was younger, but I gotta saw myself. BJ Harrison. Sorry.

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There you go.

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So they start to drive. Amy hits a pothole, the car breaks down, and Mark, played by Tyler Hines, and Amy's played by Stacey Farber, by the way. Mark by played by Tyler Hines, he picks them up in his van.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Yeah. What's his van's name?

SPEAKER_03 6:26

Mabel. Mabel. Volks was a Volkswagen van, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Yes, it's a Volkswagen van.

SPEAKER_03 6:31

And off they go. So that's the premise. Okay. So now what did I think of it? I I really enjoyed it. You know, when you have the powerhouse cast like you do, the four leads, and the writing the way it was, and the directing. I mean, you even mentioned some of the way things were shot, which I'm sure you'll talk about in a little bit. Um this movie is what we love about Hallmark movies, right? It was light, it was fun, there's some romance, lots of humor kind of sprinkled in throughout the one-liners, you know, and of course, you know, life lessons along the way. And it was just so well done the whole as a whole, all of it put together, you know. Plus, we have a different twist focus in this one that we usually see. I mean, we're giving those who have walked the planet for a longer period of time their due finally. And I felt like the focus on them, it pretty much was consistent throughout the whole movie. And I really thought that that was great because there's so much to be learned right from people who are more mature than us and older than us. And you know, I'm not using age as a bad thing, but it is true. They they have more life experience. And sometimes when you're younger, you're moving very fast, and you don't stop and smell the roses, so to speak, which you know, we'll get into a little bit. But and the romance in this one I thought it was interesting. The romance was sort of budding, but it was sort of like um, you know, an aside to the physical and emotional journey that was the road trip that each of the characters took. So I thought their writing was good. There was so much heart in the film. I just I really enjoyed it. I mean, Christine Eversaw, icon of stage, right? I mean, you have her in it. Tyler, of course, he's so calm in this, and he just oozes cool in this. I mean, I was thinking of like the fonts, right? That's what I was thinking, you know. And then BJ Harrison has such an incredible TV and film resume, and Stacey Farber, you know, we've loved her in her work. Um, it just all around, I thought it was really, really great. What about you?

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Um, I really enjoyed this one. I enjoyed the multi-generational love stories that they that they had. I I enjoyed the conversations along the way as they were driving and at every stop that they had. You know, there was these stories, these the connection between all four of them and between their past, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

I really enjoyed that. Um, and the the the I'll be seeing you song, you know, it's an old was around World War II era type song dealing with longing and hoping and reuniting. I thought it was just it was well written and and beautifully shot.

SPEAKER_03 9:34

Right, right. I would love to, I would love to chat with the writers about this and talk to them and break down the, you know, did they love the song? And I haven't seen any interviews with them. I've seen interviews, of course, with the cast, but um, just in terms of, you know, did you write the movie around the song? Like, was that song a favorite when you were younger? Like you said, it was written in what, you know, in the little research we did in the late 30s, like 1938, but it became popular by Billy Holiday towards the end of World War II, and it just spoke to them because of the people serving that were overseas and everything. And uh, you know, and the version I think that's in the movies, Michael Bublé also, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Sounded like them.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Of it. So I would love to pick their brain about that because I'd never I'd never actually heard of the song. I didn't even know about the song until this movie.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

So yeah, I know my mom back in the day used to play it, but oh really, so you were familiar with it.

SPEAKER_03 10:32

Oh, I didn't I didn't know that. See this, yeah. I had no idea. Never listen to talk about these before.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

No, never never listened to the words, but after watching this movie, I was like, hmm, this is interesting, you know. Because I thought it was just a phrase, but when she started singing a song, and it pops up a couple of times throughout the movie.

SPEAKER_03 10:51

Oh, and then when Christine Ebersoll sings it, oh stop, you know, that had to be so such a great day on set.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Oh my gosh. I bet you everybody was just standing still and just listening, you know.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

I mean, you're in the midst of a yeah, yeah, it was beautiful.

Meet Cute On The Putting Green

SPEAKER_00 11:09

All right. So you want to talk about the meet cue?

SPEAKER_03 11:13

Sure, sure. You want to dive into it? You want to describe it?

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Okay, so Tyler Hines, who plays Mark, is a he's the athletic director, right? And of this retirement home.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Activities.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Activities director, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 11:31

Not athletic coach.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Yes, Amy calls him the athletic coach. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

And if the he's on, and let's just say, I love the opening. I'm sorry, I gotta go back to that. Oh, yeah. How it was like the 70s vibe and the 70s letters.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Yes, I just haven't gotten to it yet.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Yes, I thought that was so good.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

It was so partridge family. I have got to say, when we watched the beginning, the very beginning, like you said, the lettering was like all I could think of was like, come on, get happy. Yeah, that's the partridge family theme song.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

It was so it was really good. It was really good. But anyhow, um, so it was Tyler Hines, it was um uh uh Vivian and uh Sue. They were on a putting green and they were kind of having a little competition that who can get it in the hole on the first putt or whatever. And this is when Amy walks up. Well, um, Mark is hitting the ball and he hits it a little bit hard and to the left, and she catches it with her foot, and then the the banter back and forth starts. And I thought that was really, really, really cute.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

I think so too. It was a great way. I I thought, you know, because he says for, but it's after he's hit the ball.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Right. Right.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

And she goes, and she goes, that's not much of a heads up, you know, because he had already hit it.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

The ball is almost to her and he yells for, which I just thought it was funny because it it was you usually don't uh yell for unless you hit it in the air and it's going at someone. But if it's on the ground on a putting green, you don't yell for.

SPEAKER_03 13:08

Oh really?

SPEAKER_00 13:09

Yes, you don't.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

I don't know putting it out. Yeah, I guess you wouldn't have to do it right there if you think it's just three of you. Yeah, that was.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

And let me tell you, I've had to say for a lot, a lot throughout my golf career.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

My golf career.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

So yes, we've all been there and done that.

SPEAKER_03 13:26

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Yeah, and go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

No, no, no. Uh, I was just gonna say, you mentioned their banter was really good. He's like, because she when she says something like, you know, that's not much of a heads up, and he's like, well, live fast and putt hard. And you and I, I think both laughed out loud at that. Yes, there were so many like one-liners like that. And then he invites her to be a part of his team against Vivian and Sue, and just you know, Mark's relationship with Vivian and Sue, how he sort of, you know, takes care of them and is with them, but he's not he's not condescending in a way.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Right.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

His presence with them is an appreciation of them and their stories and the life that they've led. It's not, you know, like, oh, look at that old person, you know, it's not like that at all. And so, yeah. And that's when they banter about athletic coach versus activities director. And yeah. So I I thought it was, I I thought, I thought it really worked. I mean, I would say somewhere in between middle, what do we do, top shelf, middle shelf, or or lower shelf. Or bottom shelf, bottom shelf in terms of we're thinking in terms of wine, right? So yeah, I would say right in between almost top shelf. I would say right right below top shelf for me. What about you for the meat cute?

SPEAKER_00 14:44

The same thing, same thing. Because it was funny because he's like, Oh, I've heard a lot about you, and she's like, Oh, and I've heard a lot about you, right? Because like they're trying to hook those two up. I thought Sue and Vivian were funny about that.

SPEAKER_03 14:59

Yes, yes, I I agree, I wholeheartedly agree.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Yeah, so we both give it a middle to upper shelf rating on this one.

Favorite Scenes And Character Contrast

SPEAKER_03 15:10

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

All right, so let's dive into some favorite scenes. We'll do a couple. How about that?

SPEAKER_03 15:16

All right, so we'll try to keep try to keep it to two, but keep in mind, yeah, um, there were several that I I really enjoyed. Uh there were so many like one-liners, like at the beginning, like you talked about, he's you know, it he's buying what the flags for them to race their little golf cards. Yes. And he's like, fortune, she favors the bold, you know. And then he's like, if you see a squirrel, slow down, be safe. Yeah, you know, and to to Vivian and Sue, and they're in their golf cards, and he's like, ready to say, go, you know, and it was just the that whole opening segment was so cute. Yes, it was so cute and so cute. It was fun. Thought it was it was fun, it was great, and the hand hugs.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 15:58

I thought that was so cute. You see that right away in that in that opening scene, yeah. Yeah, where you put your hands together for hands. Oh, it was just so great. I thought that was I'd never heard that before.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

I thought that was so cute. Uh I'm gonna start doing that, and that's a good handhugs. That's a good trend. Yes, that's a good trend to start.

SPEAKER_03 16:17

I think that's we should start, yeah. Definitely start doing that.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

I mean, he did it, he did it at the same time to Sue and Vivian after the race, after the cart race.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

So, yeah. That was one of my favorite scenes, too.

SPEAKER_03 16:31

All right, so um what's another one? What do you want to so one of your favorite scenes? Well, I just brought up the beginning because I wanted to throw that in there. That's all right.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

Well then give me your give me a favorite scene then.

SPEAKER_03 16:44

Okay. Um, you know, the the general the general gist is Amy is, you know, type A personality. She doesn't do anything spontaneously. She goes on dates and then she has to actually schedule future dates. And, you know, and and I like when Vivian says to her, Well, when did you schedule? She's like, Well, I tried to schedule them in three weeks from now. And she's like, Three weeks? That's a hair appointment. That's not a date. I thought that line was really funny too. But that was a good thing. So the gist is Amy's a planner, she's organized, she likes to, you know, plan everything out. She has a structure, she's a workaholic, she misses a lot of things because she's working.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Right.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

And then you have Mark, who's laid back. He kind of, you know, what did they say? A tumbleweed, you know, through life, kind of just flows through life, takes it, doesn't commit to anything totally because he doesn't want to be stuck in one place. You know, he doesn't, you never know. You don't want to plan something for the future because you never know what's going to happen. Things could change. You might want to do something else. So he's kind of fly by the seat of his pants kind of guy, and she's not. So there, you have the setup of their polar opposites. And one of my favorite scenes then leading into it is um they start the road trip and they end up doing they are and they end up like camping.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Right.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

And they they sit around a campfire, they have some s'mores, and Viv says they're gonna go to Keystone, but she hasn't told them why. And finally she says, you know, it's the first time she fell in love. And Amy, of course, is shocked to find out that her grandmother loves somebody other than her grandpa. Right. You know, like kids can't imagine their parents or grandparents had a life, you know, outside of them, which is which was kind of really cool. And um, that you know, they kind of approach that topic anyway. And then, you know, Viv basically says that, you know, she she wants Amy to, I think I wrote it down, she wants to help her with her approach to life and love.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Right.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

And I love that Mark is sitting there around the campfire too, and he kind of laughs and she's like, and you're not off the hook either, Mr. You know, because what about your she calls him out, like, what about your relationship? And I just thought, I thought that was so great. I thought the conversation, I mean, I won't go over over every line, although I wro wrote a lot of stuff down. I just thought that that was a really sweet, um, sweet moment for all four characters. And then Sue and Vivian leave the campfire, and it's just Mark and Amy, and they have a good conversation, and she discusses how she's, you know, uh the events in her friend friend's lives she's missed because of work. And then they talk about the women he's been with and the reasons why they didn't work because he really didn't commit, he didn't plan. And I just thought that that was, you know, I I just I really enjoyed that. That was I don't know, maybe a 15, 20 minute scene. I don't know how long the scene was.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

From when it was all four of them to just the two of them. But I really thought that was great. And I liked the location too. They were right near some water, it was real calming, relaxing.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Yeah. So and I thought it was kind of interesting because prior to the road trip, um, Mark was talking about going down the coast or up to coast at one of the two and camp and fish. Yes. So throughout this movie, he kind of gets that. So in a roundabout way. So and I but the other thing I liked about their conversation with the s'more scene was she would talk and he would go, Yeah, so you sound like a real go-getter. And then she would go back and go, but I didn't go. And he was like, Oh, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

And every time she had something positive, and he would be like, Oh, look at you, look how you're going out there and tackling the world. She was like, I didn't go, and I didn't do this, and I made this decision instead of that decision. And it was just so cute and so it looked, it didn't look like it looked effortlessly.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

It didn't look forced, it was effortless. Yeah, their conversation was just genuine back and forth. Yeah, yeah. I agree. And you're right, because she's that's when she says something about her friends, like, yeah, I have lots of friends, I do lots of things. I there was a you know, baby shower or whatever, bachelorette party, and he's like, Oh yeah, I bet that was fun. And she's like, I couldn't go.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Yeah, so he was like, Okay, you're right.

Horoscopes And Keystone Memories

SPEAKER_03 21:11

That's yeah, yeah. And then and then they eventually they get to the point where at the end of that conversation where she says, you know, my grandma's right about us, isn't she, isn't she? And he's kind of like, Yeah, she's right about most things, you know. So I love that. Yeah, so that would be a good scene. All right, what about you?

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Well, one of my favorite scenes was the horoscope where they read each other's horoscope.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Because it played such an integral part throughout the movie.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

It really did.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

And each one of them was like spot on. So and I don't remember exactly all of them, but I know like Vivian's was you're gonna, you know, you're gonna end up meeting you're going to a place or something and meeting, you know, somebody or something like that. Mark's was you're you're you

SPEAKER_03 22:00

know you come to a uh a fork fork in a road you're gonna have to make a decision or something like that and and then uh Sues was um I think it had to do with her husband her husband passing and that she would get signs and then Amy of course was you're gonna get what you want in the end you know like the promotion or whatever and she thought it was related to the promotion yeah so I thought it was really well written and that that conversation was fun so it was really cool I agree I know there are just so many good you know um I'm trying to debate if we're just keeping it to a couple I mean Christine Ebersal singing of course is going to be one of them but that's an aside that's just stands by itself I really liked when um okay I have to bring this up I'm gonna bring it up I'm gonna bring it up so they get to Keystone where Vivian wanted to go because that's where she spent five days with her first love right she fell madly in love with this guy she spent five days and then they separated and in those days you didn't have cell phones or you know nope you couldn't write something down you didn't have yeah so it wasn't as easy to find unless you got their digits right yeah seven so it was 75 right so she she so Vivian explains how she where she first met Teddy that's the guy's name he was making a wish in a fountain and the fountain was no longer there in the town it was a gazebo then right yeah and she's like she thought he was wishing something about her and she found out later that he was wishing the Cubs would win the World Series. Now the Cubs come up a few times in this movie. Yes yes making me love it go Cubs they were on a winning streak but they lost what yesterday I think so they were on a 10 game winning streak but you know it's fine either on a two game losing streak it's a shh shh it's a long season it's a long season yes but I am a lifelong Cubs fan and I grew up near Chicago and so anytime the Cubs come up I'm gonna talk about it. Okay. But I just thought that was so great and I immediately was like oh my God I love this movie. I'm done I don't need to see anything else. But no so I I did I did like that scene and then that scene goes right into she sees a record store and she remembers that her and Teddy had gone into the record store and she was so thrilled that it was still there. So they go to the record store and I just I loved that scene you know that's where you know Viv is kind of she's discussing going with the flow being in the moment being present and she says they dance to a song and then there happen to be two people there who are like a band not a real band but a band in the movie right or a group or whatever. And um and they play I'll be seeing you and she sings it in that scene and is just a wonderful wonderful scene.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

And she dances with Tyler right yeah he Tyler dances with her yeah yeah and then he goes to dance with Amy but the song finishes so they didn't they didn't get a dance.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

They didn't quite get to dance.

SPEAKER_00 25:11

But I like that that town scene you know with her person they they overheard her talking about I'll be seeing you and that's why they started playing it.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Yes that's right that's right it was yeah that was a cute scene.

The Tree Message And Big Choices

SPEAKER_00 25:23

So that was that was one of my one of my favorites I guess it led into it so yeah with her singing but yeah yeah um another one of mine was the conversation they were having underneath the tree yes I have the tree scene down I'm glad you brought it up so this was another one of her stops and stories where they left I guess they left each other notes in the tree in a knot in one of the branches. Yes and they're sitting there talking and this is when um I think Sue kind of opens up about her husband and as she's talking Mark notices a leaf and f falling off a branch and it kind of as it's falling it falls past the knot in the in the branch and there's this glimmer of light or a reflection and Mark is like hold on a second what is this so he gets up and and he sticks his hand in the knot and it was so funny because Amy's like don't do that there might be a beehive in there you don't know he's like what so he pulls out what is the bottle with a message in it and they hand it to Vivian and it's actually from uh Teddy from 79 and the it was still in the in the branch how cool is that that was really that was really cool and I think the leaf related back to the horoscope it did right because there was something in the horoscope her uh Sue's husband like she called it leafing or you know watching leaves and so that was one of the scenes where they kind of you know uh associated that with her husband where it related back yeah that that was yeah that was a really really great scene too yeah it was oh man you got any more um yes um I do I have a couple more and I'm trying to I really liked when Mark and I'm just gonna mention this really quickly Mark and Amy are talking about which house they would buy when they're outside of an architect's business and there are different plans for different homes and condos and they just that whole scene I thought was really cute.

SPEAKER_03 27:34

But I will go to um if I have to pick one more scene it would be towards the end.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

Right.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Unless you have one before that is I was going to talk about the Sue and Mark scene.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

No, because my last one is going to be when Vivian meets Teddy that's gonna be my last um well this is towards the very end it's just it's such a it's so good with Sue and Mark and they're kind of sitting outside they have gone to um well do you want to talk about Vivian and Teddy then because this is after that the cabin yeah so my last favorite well it's not my last but the one the last is when they finally get to where Teddy's log cabin is and she walks up to the door and just the emotion and the look on her face when she knocks and he opens it opens the door and he's like Vivian and you can just see the sadness and the smile and the like all of it at once just coming out on her face and what a shot yes to to get that emotion from her.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

I mean yeah brilli brilliant brilliant was really good yeah so and then that leads into your next favorite scene so well yeah and then she talks to Teddy and there and then that's you know and then Amy comes in there and the three of them talking about it. But anyway this scene with Sue and Mark um Sue you know she says she t she tells Mark she was like him you know she was always moving right she was always on the go and she's she's like you know don't hesitate at the fork in a road right for one moment longer like you have a fork in the road because he's gonna or was he already offered the position at that point?

SPEAKER_00 29:24

Yeah and he had one day left to give his answer to his decision.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

So you know she's basically I I just thought it was so heartfelt and she's like I know I know you've had to love and let go more than most you know we're given we're each given a path that only we can walk you know and you definitely have a unique path you know and nobody walks it quite like you and he's kind of tearing up and she's tearing up and then they do like a hand hug. And I just thought that that was so good. And there were so many of those powerful yes yes it was like she was just sort of passing on like look you know and I'll talk about this in my chairs in a little bit but I don't want to go any further but that scene I thought was so great. Yeah so so great.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

So I agree with you. Any more from you I had a whole bunch and I know but we can't yeah it's hard we'll be here all night trying to or discussing these but there was just so many. But I I will say this the the last scene where um I guess it's Mark and Amy Amy takes Mark down to the pier to fish. So here here he gets his fishing in right and she she's he's getting ready to say something she's like no just enjoy the moment just breathe and just breathe and then he ends up thanking her and then the it had to have been a drone shot but it was shot so well and so beautifully from a distance and you get the how like small they were compared to Mother Nature. It just looks so beautiful and I was like wow that's a shot right there.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

I know you literally said that out loud during that to me that's something that would win an award you know for best uh cinematography cinematography yeah it was it was really really beautiful but well and I like too that they showed because they finally kissed then you know on the pier and I love that they show um Vivian and Teddy watching from Teddy's house. There's like a big glass window and then they show Sue watching she's on like the porch or whatever a porch area and she's watching their kiss too right after the end of that. But yeah it was that's it was really well shot.

Cheers Jeers And Final Rating

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Yeah all right so did you what chairs did you have?

SPEAKER_03 31:49

None hated it as you can tell um I think there's just I think the reverence shown to you know the older generation it isn't always seen or acknowledged and I thought that this Hallmark film really did just a beautiful job of portraying wisdom in a way that wasn't condescending.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

Right.

SPEAKER_03 32:12

You know so I I thought that that was I thought that that was really what shined in the movie. I mean I I feel like you know the romance part of it w was good and you could see they kind of had a connection but that's not really what the film was about. And yeah they eventually connected and you know and I I liked you know another cheer for me would be that you know they both sort of you know you do have the type A and you have the the laid back you know go on a whim do whatever you want when you want and it kind of shows you need a balance of both like you know if you're too rigid one way or you know if you're too laid back I mean you do have to plan some things. Like you have to save your money you have to you know there are some things you need to plan for. It's okay to plan for a vacation or say you want a certain job or plan for certain things, you know, but you know and at the same time we do move fast. You do have to slow down you do have to do things outside of work. And you know you and I talk about this a lot and I think I've even said it on the podcast I think I don't think enough people especially in the United States take vacation I really really don't that doesn't mean going anywhere.

unknown 33:25

Right.

SPEAKER_03 33:25

It just means taking a staycation job it just yeah take a staycation I feel like you know if if you have a job where you earn leave or paid time off PTO or whatever you call it you know and and some people save and they have like 500 hours. What are you gonna do with that?

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Right.

SPEAKER_03 33:45

Take you know save a little bit for an emergency no problem. I have no issue with that but then use some of it. That's what it's there for. Yeah I just think we literally work ourselves to death sometimes. That's an aside sorry that's my TED talk. But you know and I like I appreciate movies that kind of that talk about it in a positive way like yeah you you can do that but and it's okay to do that but do take some time to slow down. Do go to the baby showers. You life does go fast. I mean we're at an age where we know that right you know weekends used to go by fast when I was younger when the kids were younger because they were always so busy and now they go by fast because we're older and time flies. Right there you go. So you know so you do you just and I just I appreciated the writing and the way the movie um flowed really in exploring that topic. I I thought that it was really really well done.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

What about I have some other ones but there was one quote that they mentioned and it was don't let the grass grow under your feet no matter how soft it feels and I thought it was interesting that they both had different perspectives which went with their her type A and his laid back attitude. Yeah and they explained that in the movie and I thought that was really well done too so you're right you're exactly right what any other cheers my my other cheer is I I was happy that each he was Mark or Tyler Hines was kind of the grounding for them during this whole uh road trip but I also felt like each character had a moment of advice for another character and I thought that was played in really well yeah and I but I think I think they were grounding for him also.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

Yeah oh yeah a hundred percent yeah I I think it worked both ways that's a really interesting and good good point especially Sue so yeah I mean there were little things that I really liked. I like that they didn't make Vivian and Sue enemies I know because you know a lot of times when you're in a retirement community you know they hate each other and that may be true but I really like that they're just really good friends and they support each other you know and they like to have fun. Yeah yeah and they just like having fun and and I love that you know when there's the mishap of the luggage which is a scene where Amy's luggage gets put in the wrong car and then she doesn't have it for her you know when she goes to talk to the inventor I like that they didn't have her get mad at Mark for that.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:17

She wasn't you know she never said anything like oh I'm too laid back and I shouldn't have gone on this trip which is the route they usually go you know right she's upset for a minute and then she takes it in and she goes I can handle this I can do it she starts to laugh because Mark has rubbed off on her a little bit right so there you go. Yeah um and you know go cubs the Cubs references in this are always going to be a cheer for me.

SPEAKER_00 36:41

So so the little uh figurine he had in his car of the bear yeah you and I had a debate about this or was or no because it kind of looked like it had baseball seams on it but I don't know. If it was if you if you know let us know you know in the comments I'd like to I'd like to know whether or not that was a cub I don't know you say it was a Cub like a Chicago Cubs reference and I didn't think so but I don't think not him but Teddy was a Cub fan so I didn't know Teddy was so how can I I know but I don't know if Vivian had it or found saw it somewhere and put it in in the van but that's neither here or near I don't know good point. All right so what about Jeers? Did you have any jeers?

SPEAKER_03 37:23

I didn't really I was I think I was curious about seat belts that not because I you know particularly care. I mean I know everyone knows to be safe but I was like did vans not have seats because there's you know a couple C's on just and that's just something I said out loud. I mean it's not really you know what about you?

SPEAKER_00 37:41

Any any jeers that you had um I was a little confused about the road trips part the destinations like it seemed like they were all over the place.

Support The Show And Farewell

SPEAKER_03 37:53

Well I don't I they probably weren't we were like I that yeah we were maybe it was good we were focused on the story more than because you and I were like wait where are they are they on the California Coast? I'm so confused. I don't know where because yeah it was the whole thing with us a whole conversation all right someone can lay that out too we know Keystone and Eureka yeah so so is that a wrap that is a wrap are you gonna cork it? Yeah I'm gonna cork it okay how many corks out of five corks how many corks would you give I was kind of going back and forth between a four and a four and a half and I think I'm going a four and a half after having this discussion man yeah same I am the same I was gonna do you know four and a quarter and then I'm like after we discussed it you know and that happened I had a really like I'd really like to snow I'm going four and a half four and a half corks out of five.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

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SPEAKER_03 39:22

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