Last month we reported on Mill Creek Entertainment’s acquisition of director Justin G. Dyck’s romantic thriller, Romance in the Wilds, starring Kaitlyn Leeb and Victoe Zinck Jr. The film will be making its DVD debut on Oct. 05.
This Dove-Approved film tested so wonderfully well that filmmaker Justin G. Dyck immediately recruited both Leeb and Zinck for a follow-up sequel. We can report this week that Mill Creek Entertainment has just acquired the recently finished film, Christmas in the Wilds, and it will be heading home on DVD this Nov. 02.
The oil and water mix of Jessica (Kaitlyn Leeb — Christmas with a View, Anything for Jackson), a geologist, and Buck Thompson (Victor Zinck Jr. — Love Alaska, Breakthrough, Spotlight on Christmas), a forest ranger, played out in the aforementioned Romance in the Wilds as the pair had to put aside their differences and work together to survive a raging forest fire. Along the way they fell in love.
They are about to spend their first Christmas together as Jessica is introduced to Buck’s family, his mother Janine (Kate Vernon — perhaps best known as Ellen Tige in the Battlestar Galactica TV series), and his sister, Roma (Laura Vandervoor — Rabid, Jigsaw). It is a lovely setting and everything seems picture-perfect, that is until the emergency call comes in and Buck’s flying skills are needed.
We also discover a bit of a backstory about Buck, he had a relationship with his co-worker and fellow-pilot, Meg (Jennifer Mote — Perpetual Motion). Perhaps a little jealous, perhaps curious, when it appears that Buck won’t be back for Christmas, Jessica proposes that they meet — traveling overland — halfway. Perfect, a secluded cabin, alone … the ideal first Christmas together, how romantic.
We get a bit of foreshadowing that Jessica is accomplished in the wilds, self-assured, an ace with a snow mobile, so it doesn’t seem that crazy that they would make such a rendezvous. They meet up, but soon it all goes south and they find themselves, once again, in a battle for survival.
And, once again, the Dove Seal of Approval has been awarded Christmas in the Wilds. Come for the romance, stay for the adventure … Nov. 2 on DVD from Mill Creek Entertainment.
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