Christmas at Pemberley Manor and Romance at Reindeer Lodge may never make it to Oscar night, 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 is because the US state of Connecticut – the location for at least 22 holiday films by American cable networks such as Hallmark and Lifetime – has been promoting tours of the quaint Christmas-card cities and towns featured in this booming film market. Places where, for example, 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.)
