Rise And Shine, Benedict Stone: The most charming, uplifting and feel-good novel of summer 2021 from the bestselling author of The Library of Lost and Found

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I adored Arthur Pepper and imagined coming across him in my travels. Now I feel the same way about Benedict Stone! When Gemma, the teenaged daughter of his estranged brother, arrives unannounced from America and shows up on the doorstep of Benedict's home in a quiet English village, she shakes up his mundane life. He and his wife are separated, his jewelry shop business has declined, and Gemma provides the spark to get things moving again. When this story was all said and done, I was so sorry that I thought of Benedict as a loser. He's not a loser. He just needed a push, something to get him out of his misery and his sadness of not being able to have a family. As Fall Harvest 2021 plows along on Hallmark’s family of channels, an all-new movie starring Tom Everett Scott is drawing attention for its fresh new storytelling. Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone is coming to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on Sunday, September 26, and it’s a feel-good movie that leaves you with a smile on your face. Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone synopsis We come to learn that Benedict Stone has reached a crisis point in his life and must venture on a personal journey to recover something that has been lost. He has been a caregiver and a provider all his life. He knows nothing else. He had always wanted to have children and a family to carry on traditions. Because his parents died when he was young, he was responsible for the care of his brother and their business of running the family jewelry making shop.

The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. In the middle of storm one night a stranger appears on his doorstep, who turns out to be the niece of his estranged brother Charlie in America. Charlie and Benedict haven't spoken in 18 years. His niece Gemma claims she lost her passport and phone in the airport, and has explanations for every one of Benedict's questions, and though none are very believable, Benedict falls for them all the same. Then Gemma comes into his life. The daughter of his brother, the only living family members he has left. And, things begin to change.The interludes with Ella Ballentine narrating the properties of various stones is such a sweet editing touch to the movie. All of the details from the whimsical font to the pleasing (but not oversaturated) warm color palette make this movie seem less cookie-cutter than most other Hallmark movies. Speaking of Ella, she is so sweet and spirited in this role. Tom Everett Scott is equally as adorable in his role. I loved that the main relationship in this movie was that between uncle and niece. Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone' will premiere on September 26, Sunday, at 9/8 c, on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Spoilers Benedict Stone (Tom Everett Scott) is breaking up with his wife (Mía Maestro). One rainy night, his niece Gemma Stone (Ella Ballentine) suddenly shows up. He's been estranged from his brother for 20 years and has never met his niece. She claims to have lost her phone and can't remember her dad's phone number.

In the present, Benedict obtains Charlie’s phone number from Gemma’s phone and calls Charlie. Within hours, Charlie is in England. He had not known Gemma’s whereabouts. He and Benedict get into a fistfight, letting loose years of anger. After overseeing the fight, Gemma wanders off alone into the moors above the town. When she does not come home, Benedict and Charlie, along with Estelle, put their differences behind them and set out to find her. The gem stones are a major part of the story, literally and symbolically, as they help catalogue Benedict and Gemma's journeys. Each chapter is introduced by a different gem from Benedict's dad's journal with its properties and the significance attached to the gems. I spent a great deal of time curious about what was really going on with Gemma and what dreadful thing Benedict did to cause his brother to leave and cut him off. I suspected on both counts and I was mostly right. The author was not afraid to present a flawed hero, but I loved her Benedict and I was rooting hard for him to succeed on all counts. With promising characters and irresistible charm, 'Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone' is a reminder of the unbreakable bonds of family and shows that having someone to embrace life with is always better than standing on your own. The official synopsis says: "The story is about Benedict Stone and his wife Emilia who got separated after 10 years, when trying for a baby becomes unsuccessful". Cast Acting is good. There is chemistry between Mía Maestro and Tom Everett Scott. Despite the separation, Gemma's line that they are hopelessly in love (or just hopeless) is accurate even from the beginning. Emilia's character has been too much taken for granted and she needed far more comfort from her husband through their failed efforts at conceiving a child. That's where Gemma comes in. All of this is laid out fairly early in the story. I loved The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper and her latest book is another winner. The author has the ability to write about relationships in a heartwarming way that just pulls you into the story and the lives of these characters.

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For Benedict Stone, life has been moving in one direction without much change. He’s approaching his ten-year wedding anniversary with wife Emilia, but the couple isn’t living together at the moment after the strain of trying to conceive a child drives a wedge between them. The story then took a new twist with Gemma learning and teaching about the meaning of gemstones and handing them out to people with hopes to better their lives. Gemma is hiding a huge secret, but then so is Benedict. Even Estelle doesn't know Benedict's secret and she knows everything about him. Soon, Benedict starts to realize that he has everything he could possibly need in life and he needs to start embracing it all. Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone cast As Benedict tries to sort things out, his niece Gemma arrives on his doorstep. Benedict is estranged from his brother so he doesn’t know anything about the young woman who walks into his life, but she’s on a mission to save his marriage and rekindle his romance. Mixed feelings about this one. If the reader can suspend belief and just go with it, that's the best way to enjoy it.

An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale.Is it possible for a sixteen-year-old teen to inspire others? Especially adults? You will see the influence of this teen and her interest in gemstones on others in the village. Hallmark has covered broken marriages before, but I don’t think that there has ever been a Hallmark movie that covered a married couple who was separated because they disagreed on continuing to try to have children. The way the story and central conflict are set up in a way that makes both Benedict and Emilia sympathetic characters. With Hallmark’s history of demonizing women who don’t fit in a certain narrative, this was definitely refreshing to see. Ella's television experience includes roles in the historical fantasy Reign (2013) and on the medical drama series Saving Hope. She played a guest starring role in It Takes a Village (2018). Her role as the iconic character of Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables: Fire and Dew (2017) earned Ella her first award, the Canadian Screen Award in 2018. As with the first story, a man has reached a crisis point in his life and must now go on a personal journey to recover something that has been lost. Benedict Stone is a caregiver and a provider. He knows no other way and his biggest dream is to have his own children so as a family they can carry on tradition. His parents died hunting their precious gemstones when he was a very young man and he took on the care of his brother and the running of the family jewelry making shop. Tom Everett Scott (Benedict) got his start in Tom Hanks’ feel-good classic That Thing You Do!, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2021. He’s appeared in many other projects over the years, including Race to Witch Mountain, Parental Guidance and La La Land, in addition to appearing on a number of TV shows including Will & Grace, 13 Reasons Why and The Council of Dads.