TO BARCELONA, FOREVER

Name: TO BARCELONA, FOREVER
Item: TO BARCELONA, FOREVER
Author: Review

"Truth Gets in the Way of Telling a Lie"

Family Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

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What You Need To Know:

TO BARCELONA, FOREVER is a romance playing on the Hallmark Channel and its streaming outlet, Hallmark+. A travel writer, Anna, and a farmer, Javier, connect one evening after a chance encounter. They reluctantly part ways. However, Anna accidentally ends up in Javier’s hometown where his family runs their saffron farm. Due to some misunderstandings, Javier’s family thinks they’re engaged. The couple agrees to keep up the ruse until harvest time, because it could help them both professionally. However, will their real feelings get in the way of the lie?

TO BARCELONA, FOREVER is a well-made, charming romance that fans of the genre probably will really enjoy. Romantic leads Ashley Williams and Miguel Brocca have great chemistry together. Supporting cast members Alison Sweeney and Alejandro Tous also shine. TO BARCELONA, FOREVER focuses on some positive, morally uplifting values. It stresses the importance of family, community, friendship, and telling the truth. There’s also a scene showing Javier’s mother praying. However, there are some scenes discussing manifestation and fate. Many scenes also feature social drinking, but never to excess. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.

Content:

(BB, C, Pa, A, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

A strong overall morally uplifting worldview stressing family, community, friendship, and telling the truth, plus a Christian scene showing the male lead’s mother praying, bit mixed with superstitious pagan featuring discussions of manifestation and fate;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

No violence;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Many scenes featuring characters drinking socially, but never to excess;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Romantic couple lies to man’s family and neighbors, but they often express guilt and apologize by the end of the movie.

More Detail:

In TO BARCELONA, FOREVER on the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark+, travel writer Anna has a chance encounter with a handsome stranger named Javier. Sparks fly, but she has to get back on the road and the two part ways. However, when she accidentally ends up in his town, Javier’s family mistakenly think they’re engaged. The couple agrees to play along for the sake of their careers, but will Anna and Javier be able to keep the truth a secret?

Travel writer Anna is happy to be back in Spain, celebrating the engagement of her friends, Erica and Nico, and finding new restaurants to share with the world in her articles. While visiting one restaurant, she runs into Javier, a saffron farmer whose family runs the most secret and exclusive saffron farm in the world. Anna asks if she can write an article about them, but he quickly refuses.

Things get off to a frosty start for the pair, but when they accidentally run into each other again at another restaurant, Anna and Javier begin to warm to one another. They talk all night and share that they both feel a connection, but Anna has to hit the road for work. So, they reluctantly part.

Later, Anna is traveling through Spain when her electric car’s battery drains. She walks to the nearest town, where she runs into Javier again. She has accidentally stumbled across his family’s secret town!

Javier urges her to leave, but before she can, his family intercepts them, excitedly talking about plans for their wedding. Javier had initially been in the city to meet with a matchmaker, because he can’t inherit the family farm until he’s married. Comically, Javier’s family mistakenly think Anna is the bride the matchmaker chose for him.

They both want to clear things up right away, but after Erica ends up in town to check on Anna, the pair agree to keep up the ruse. Anna will continue pretending to be Javier’s fiancée through harvest time, giving him time to think about how to tell his parents he doesn’t want to get married right now. In exchange, Anna will get to write her article about the saffron farm.

Things quickly get complicated, as both Anna and Javier do have real feelings for each other. After spending a lot of time with Javier’s mother, Anna soon begins to feel guilty and tells Javier they must tell the truth. He initially disagrees, but after a town-wide engagement party, he decides to tell the truth.

Before they can both come clean, it’s announced that the harvest must begin right away, and Javier and Anna get swept up in the excitement of it all. Anna decides not to write the article, because she loves Javier’s family so much and would never want to hurt them.

The situation comes to a head when Javier’s family find Erica’s notebook, which is full of information about them. They accuse her of being a spy.

TO BARCELONA, FOREVER is a fun, charming romance that fans of the genre will enjoy. The production locations are beautiful, and the romantic leads, Ashley Williams and Miguel Brocca have great chemistry together. Supporting cast members Alison Sweeney and Alejandro Tous also shine.

TO BARCELONA, FOREVER focuses on some positive, morally uplifting values. For example, it stresses family, community, supporting friends, and telling the truth. However, people in some scenes discuss superstitious pagan ideas such as “manifesting” things and beliefs in fate. There are also many scenes featuring some social alcohol use, but not to excess. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.