Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane | |
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Based on | The House on Honeysuckle Lane [1] |
Written by | Caitlin D. Fryers |
Directed by | Maggie Greenwald |
Starring | Alicia Witt Colin Ferguson |
Music by | Michael Richard Plowman |
Country of origin | United States Canada |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Danielle von Zerneck |
Producers | Andrew Gernhard Erica Joseph Hunter Colin Theys |
Cinematography | Branden James Maxham |
Editor | Keith Reamer |
Running time | 120 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Hallmark Channel Hallmark Movies & Mysteries |
Release | November 24, 2018 |
Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane is a 2018 American-Canadian television film starring Alicia Witt and Colin Ferguson, based on the novel by Mary Elizabeth McDonough. The film premiered on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on November 24, 2018.
After their parents have died, Emma and her siblings spend a nostalgic Christmas in their family home before putting the house on Honeysuckle Lane up for sale. [2]
The filming location was in Old Wethersfield, Connecticut, and over the course of two weeks location in the town included Comstock Ferre and Co., the Silas Robbins Bed and Breakfast, [3] the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum. [4] [5]
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