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The amazing Jen Kirkman RETURNS to help us review another new HallmarkChristmas movie!
ABOUT HOLIDAY UNPLUGGED
When Sally, a widowed art teacher, loses years of treasured family videos, she declares a screen-free Christmas. She enlists Damon, a former colleague and her new dating-app match, to help recover them in time for the holidays.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR HOLIDAY UNPLUGGED
November 7, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF HOLIDAY UNPLUGGED
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Zac Hug
Cast:
- Nikki DeLoach as Sally
- Juan Pablo Di Pace as Damon
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
We meet Sally, who is a widowed school art teacher on the dating apps. We see that she matches with Damon who, lucky for her, IS HOT!
She has a son, Keegan, home from college, and a teen daughter named Boo. Both are obsessed with their phones! There’s like an app that holds all of the memories and videos of Sally’s husband and the app is down. Keegan is very concerned.
We meet hot Damon who used to teach kindergarten at the school. Now he works at his uncle’s store. Instead of meeting at the store where he works, Sally bumps into Damon at Michaels...SHOUT OUT! They’re both like oh hey, I know you from the app! Damon is like should we just go get coffee now? She’s like ugh, I’m so busy with Christmas stuff! She just blurts out TEXT?! And he’s like yeah!
She gets bad news - they may have lost all of her husband’s videos. The app has a server snafu. This is bad news. Luckily, she has the videos on her phone. No biggie. EXCEPT...she dropped her phone and broke it! So instead of telling them that she may have lost all of the videos, she proposes a digital detox.
This won’t be a problem until Grandma and Grandpa show up and give them new phones.
She pitches the detox to everyone and they all agree. Hopefully that buys her enough time to figure out that video situation. She finds her husband’s old camcorder. If she can get it working, then she can play the videos that way. So she brings it to a shop and guess who’s working...it’s Damon! He’s gonna try to fix the camera. She gives him her home phone number since her cell phone is broken and asks him to call her.
The next day, he shows up and is like I know someone that may be able to help get the videos off of her broken phone. Naturally, it’s his friend that works at a Christmas tree farm. Bad news though...all the files are corrupt. Now it’s about finding the tapes and getting the camcorder up and running. He agrees to help her so they go out to this cabin where they might have the tapes. Naturally, that leads to them slow dancing. They almost kiss but then she sees an envelope that she thinks might hold all the tapes. It’s not the tapes but it’s pictures she thought they lost.
The friend that started the company with her husband found the tapes but they’re all deteriorated and broken. WORST CHRISTMAS EVER!
The word finally comes out about the broken phone and the lost tapes. The kids handle it well. They learn that they don’t need the tapes to remember their dad because they are their dad and his memory lives in them.
Damon comes over for the Christmas crawl and brings her a gift - a really cool storage box for her ornaments.
They end up getting their dad’s old laptop and figure out the password and find the videos (and a new one) in there!
Sally & Damon go outside to talk and he says he wants to figure out life together and they kisssssss.
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