‘True Love Blooms’ Hallmark Movie Premiere: Cast, Trailer, Air Date

Sara Rue and Jordan Bridges are back after a one-year Hallmark hiatus with their new Spring Fever premiere, “True Love Blooms,” Saturday night.

Before now, the Hallmark actors had never worked together, but they did both star on popular (pun intended) late-90’s/early-00s teen series — “Dawson’s Creek” for Bridges and, well, “Popular” for Rue.

As far as Hallmark movies are concerned, she was last on the network in 2017’s “All for Love” with Steve Bacic, while he was in “Christmas at Holly Lodge” with Alison Sweeney, which also came out that same year.

Now, with “True Love Blooms,” the two are giving Hallmark fans a new romance to watch blossom right before their eyes.

“Vikki (Rue) runs the community garden, threatened by Chace (Bridges), a developer who wants to replace it with condos. Determined to stop him, Vikki goes to his office with a peace lily, hoping to help the businessman see green in a different way,” according to the synopsis. “While he’s taken by Vikki’s drive, Chace says the project will go on, notwithstanding her petitions or protests. She explains the garden was her dad’s passion project before he died, and he reveals his father passed away when he was young, leaving him to take care of his mom.

“Wanting to prove he’s not a villain, Chace takes Vikki to a construction site, where she sees how it’s a source of pride to him and all the workers involved. But despite seeing the other’s viewpoint, they remain at an impasse. Unwilling to give up, Vikki crashes the Mayoral Gala to ask the Mayor to declare the garden a landmark, and there she spots Chace, who asks her to dance. Though they’re clearly enthralled with each other, Chace still lets his bulldozers roll and Vikki wants nothing to do with him. Hopefully he’ll look find a way to hurtle their impasse, which might just be in the sky.”

Directed by Matthew Diamond and written by Elias Madias, “True Love Blooms” also features Aisha Duran (Ana), Ray Watters (Mr. Boyle), Tamara Austin (Serena), Jan Neuberger (Ms. Huard), Amy LoCicero (Marta), Andi Matheny (Audrey), Victoria White (Ilya), Audrey Harris White (Judge) and Carol Saragusa (Mayor Price) in the cast.

Catch “True Love Blooms” when it airs on Hallmark Channel on Saturday at 8 p.m. EDT.