Christmas At Pemberly Manor and Romance At Reindeer Lodge may never make it to the Oscars, but legions of fans still love these sweet-yet-predictable holiday movies – and this season, many are making pilgrimages to where their favourite scenes were filmed.
That’s because Connecticut in the United States – the location for at least 22 holiday films by Hallmark, Lifetime and other networks – is promoting tours of the quaint Christmas-card cities and towns featured in this booming movie market; places where a busy corporate lawyer can return home for the holidays and cross paths with a plaid shirt-clad former high school flame who now runs a Christmas tree farm. (Spoiler alert: They live happily ever after.)
