New Holiday Original for Hallmark Channel

STUDIO CITY, February 22:
Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominee Jacqueline Bisset will star in An Old
Fashioned Thanksgiving, a Hallmark
Channel original movie slated for release this November.

The film, based on a
classic tale by Little Women author
Louisa May Alcott, is the story of a high-society New York woman living in the
late 1800s (Bisset), whose life is disrupted when her estranged daughter falls
ill. An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving plays
out with a message of reconciliation and following one’s dreams.

Production will begin in
Toronto on February 25. The movie is being produced by OFT Productions (API).
Michael Prupas is the executive producer and Steve Solomos and Jesse Prupas are
the producers. Graeme Campbell is directing from a script by Shelley Evans.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski