‘Polar Opposites’ streams on Hallmark+
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A new addition to Hallmark Plus is Polar Opposites, which takes viewers to the very bottom of the globe.
When Emma (Rhiannon Fish) gets a disturbing call from her father Ian (Dean McDermott) saying he needs help, she drops everything to go to her dad. But he is in Antarctica studying penguins and she is in the United States. She has a long trip in front of her.
How will she get all the way down to the South Pole? She books a flight to South America and finds a cruise ship that is going from there to Antarctica. But there are a couple problems with this plan. She does not have the time to get the appropriate permit to go to Antarctica. And she does not have a ticket for the cruise. However there is no stopping this woman so she pretends to be part of a team going down to the South Pole and stows away on the ship.
Just how will she hide her presence on this cruise? It won’t be easy.
Andy (Marina Tarasiuk) is an engineer traveling to Antarctica with his team for six-months at the research station. After meeting Emma onboard and hearing her story he decides to help keep her hidden. This could be the end of his career if she is found.
When they get to Antarctica they discover the help Ian needs is not for himself but for a penguin who cannot get back to her mate. She was standing on the ice when it broke off and set her afloat away from the others. Killer whales patrolling the area in search of food so the poor little penguin cannot swim back for fear of becoming a whale’s lunch.
Emma and Andy immediately get to work to figure out how to get the little penguin safely back to her mate who has been standing guard and staring at her while she has been afloat on the chunk of ice.
For the humans it is heartbreaking to see the lovebirds separated by the broken off iceberg. With their ingenuity they craft a plan that will safely reunite the penguins.
Spoiler alert – they do save the penguin and she is reunited with her mate. It’s a touching and heartening scene.
Being a Hallmark movie you know there is also going to be a love story between the two human characters. Although their focus is on the penguins, Emma and Andy do find themselves attracted to each other and yes, you guessed it, they do become a couple.
I like a good romance in movies but for animal lovers like me, the best part of the movie is not that Andy and Emma get together, it’s that the penguins get back together and are able to start their family. I’m a sucker for a good ending when it comes to animals.
This was filmed in Argentina and Brazil.
Polar Opposites is now streaming on Hallmark+.
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Francine Brokaw has been covering all aspects of the entertainment industry for over 30 years. She also writes about products and travel. She has been published in national and international newspapers and magazines as well as Internet websites. She has written her own book, Beyond the Red Carpet The World of Entertainment Journalists, is the entertainment correspondent for Good Day Orange County, and has her own TV show, Beyond the Red Carpet, on Village Television in Orange County. She is a longstanding member of the Television Critics Association and is accredited by the MPAA.
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