Christmas is usually the time when most of us are able to lay back, relax with our loved ones, and chow down on all of our feel-good foods. Part of the annual festivities includes getting cozy on the sofa and watching our favorite Christmas movies - Love Actually, Home Alone, Jingle All The Way, The Holiday, and pretty much anything Hallmark.
While festive films are great, Hallmark is certainly in a league of its own. Those straight-to-TV movies may hinge on predictable plot lines and questionable dialogue, but at the end of the day, they're family-friendly and still well-made. They're a Christmas staple and, without them, it wouldn't feel like the holidays!
Each year, the list of new Hallmark flicks gets longer and longer, however, two movies in particular have taken the interest of the internet after they appeared to be the exact same film recreated twice.
It all started a few days ago when Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon took to Instagram to post an image of his Netflix account open on a TV screen - showing two Hallmark movies side by side in the "Movies and Mistletoe" section.
The movies in question are both called Sister Swap. One is called Sister Swap: Christmas in the City, while the other is called Sister Swap: Home for the Holidays.
Harmon had originally assumed both flicks were from the same franchise - given that they have similar names and feature the same actresses, who are also real-life sisters - but soon discovered that they were both released in 2021. In fact, not only were they released in the same year, Harmon noticed that they were virtually identical.
"Both Sister Swaps are the same story, about sisters - played by real life sisters, who have to swap…cities. It should be noted that the sisters AND the cities AND THE MOVIES are, so far, indistinguishable. It's not like one is a hillbilly and the other is a millionaire, that doesn't matter, we don't go to Hallmark for conflict," he wrote in the Instagram caption.
"The dialogue in each version is identical but the scenes are cut differently because I assume they just had different editors. In one of the movies, one of the sisters has a full flashback about her relationship with the other sister. In the other sister's movie, you don't get a different version of the same flashback. You just don't get a f**king flashback in that one," Harmon added.
"In both of the movies, they spend 1 minute trying on hats but in ONE of the movies, they also try on glasses. We're freaking out and I can't keep typing about it I will come back later i f**king love Christmas though," his caption concluded.
People hilariously posted their opinions in the comments section, with one person writing: "I think these two sisters found a way to have Hallmark order it TWICE and then exploited it to perfection."
"Our market research showed that families in the south don't like sunglasses, so they did hats for that market," another added, referring to the hats and sunglasses flashback.
One person even tagged and directly asked one of the actresses in the movie to explain what the heck was going on.
"We wanted to do something outside the box for the genre but also stay in the genre, and my sister came up with this brilliant idea of two films that take place in the same time frame and sometimes overlap, and it took us years to figure out the puzzle, and then, Hallmark finally let us DO IT," she responded.
Well, folks, there you have it! Evidently Harmon was wrong when he said we "don't go to Hallmark for experimentation on this level." I know what I'll be checking out this holiday season!
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