1 year ago
Two movies. Two sisters. One precise confused me.
Holiday Hallmark movies are similar their ain cinematic beingness astatine this point. They person clichéd tropes, predictable endings, and often indistinguishable plots from 1 another. But that's wherefore we emotion them! We cognize what we're gonna get, which is particularly comforting during the accent and chaos of the vacation season.
Well, a fewer days ago, Dan Harmon (creator of Community and Rick and Morty) posted a small find helium made to Instagram: Hallmark fundamentally released the aforesaid movie...twice.
The movies successful question were Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday and Sister Swap: Christmas successful the City, respectively.
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At first, helium thought the films were portion of a sequential franchise, but erstwhile helium dug a small deeper, helium saw that they were some released successful 2021.
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Dan went connected to explicate that "the dialog successful each mentation is identical, but the scenes are chopped otherwise due to the fact that I presume they conscionable had antithetic editors."
He past pointed retired that "nothing successful the statement of the movies" explains wherefore these films are truthful similar, and that "each movie [is] honestly mostly excited that 2 real-life sisters are playing sisters."
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HMM. Well, astatine this point, I instantly needed to cognize much (and by "more," I mean EVERYTHING) astir the accumulation and organisation of this movie, but facts seemed to beryllium fewer and acold between.
I did find retired that some films were released precisely one week apart during Hallmark's "Countdown to Christmas" lineup past year.
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Both films were written and directed by the aforesaid people, and person an astir identical cast, including real-life sisters Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Ashley Williams.
And that the movies adjacent had the aforesaid editor, Kristi Shimek.
Since this would person been a enigma that haunted maine for years, I went backmost to Dan Harmon's station to spot if anyone other knew much than I did, and that's erstwhile I saw it: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, 1 of the swapped sisters herself, commented connected the post.
She said, "We wanted to bash thing extracurricular the container for the genre but besides enactment successful the genre, and my sister came up with this superb thought of 2 films that instrumentality spot successful the aforesaid clip framework and sometimes overlap, and it took america years to fig retired the puzzle, and then, Hallmark yet fto america DO IT."
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What?! The reply was truthful simple, yet truthful complicated. But I felt relief, nonetheless.
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But I inactive wanted to cognize more. And erstwhile I FINALLY went to ticker the 2 films connected Hallmark's streaming service, Hallmark Movies Now, I recovered a featurette called "Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday: On Location." I've ne'er clicked connected thing truthful accelerated successful my life.
There the sisters were, giving maine each the details I'd been craving:
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Kimberly Williams-Paisley explained that she stars successful 1 movie, her sister stars successful the other, and that they past "cross into each other's movies."
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The movies are, successful fact, wholly antithetic from 1 different and lone overlap a fistful of times since each movie follows a antithetic sister. And erstwhile they bash overlap, the exertion chose antithetic shots oregon takes, truthful it doesn't consciousness stale watching the aforesaid (or precise akin scenes) implicit again.
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This thought is benignant of groundbreaking, tbh. And I'm amazed Hallmark didn't marque a bigger woody retired of this full concept.
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