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’Tis the Season for Setups
2026
84 minutes
Director
Jeff Beesley
Cast
Amanda Schull
Victor Webster
Barbara Niven
Description
Hyper-organized single mom and party planner Lexi heads to a local ski resort with her free-spirited mother, June, and teenage daughter, Piper, after landing a job organizing the resort's annual Christmas party. There, she clashes with Ridge, a ski instructor and the son of resort owner Dan. When Lexi and Ridge notice a spark between their parents, they team up to play matchmaker. Their carefully planned romantic outings keep turning into group dates, however, and the matchmaking begins to work a little too well on the matchmakers themselves.
Professions
Event Planner
Ski Instructor
Settings & Cities
A contemporary Christmas at a local ski resort in a fictional mountain community. One movie database identifies the resort as Sun Creek, near Breckenridge, Colorado, but the official Hallmark synopsis does not name the town.
Manitoba, Canada
Breckenridge, Colorado
Manitoba, Canada
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Tis the Season for Setups
Subtitle: When your parents need a dating app, but you decide to become the algorithm.
Lexi is a professional party planner who heads to a ski resort for Christmas with her mother and teenage daughter. Naturally, she immediately clashes with Ridge, a handsome ski instructor. But rather than simply admitting they're attracted to each other, the two decide their parents should date. Because nothing says holiday fun quite like turning your family vacation into a matchmaking operation.
Unfortunately, their romantic setups keep turning into group dates, proving that even the most organized event planner can't control the guest list—or Cupid's questionable scheduling decisions. Before long, Lexi and Ridge discover that while they've been busy arranging everyone else's happily-ever-after, they might have accidentally planned one for themselves.
It's a cozy combination of snowy scenery, family meddling, and predictable romantic detours. Classic Hallmark movies territory, where the biggest holiday emergency isn't a snowstorm but two attractive people refusing to admit they like each other. And as Hallmark holiday movies go, this one proves that sometimes the best Christmas gift is finding love... preferably without your mother having to supervise the first date.