Hallmark’s Time-Loop Hanukkah Movie Round and Round Seeks Answers in Comic Books — Watch Sneak Peek

Vlada Gelman
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Hallmark’s Time-Loop Hanukkah Movie Round and Round Seeks Answers in Comic Books — Watch Sneak Peek

It’s Hanukkah again… and again… and again in the Hallmark Channel time-loop movie Round and Round, which celebrates the Festival of Lights with a twist.

Round and Round Hallmark Channel
Round and Round Hallmark Channel

Premiering this Sunday, Dec. 10 at 8/7c, the flick — which is TVLine’s top holiday movie pick for the week — follows Rachel (played by Upload’s Vic Michaelis), a young woman on her way to a Hanukkah party hosted by her parents (Suits’ Rick Hoffman and Nancy Drew’s Nicole Oliver) when she bumps into a stranger and her family’s beloved sufganiyot are destroyed in the walk-and-crash.

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And wouldn’t you know it, said stranger, Zach (One Tree Hill’s Bryan Greenberg), also shows up at the shindig, as the nice boy that Rachel’s grandma (Paula Shaw) is trying to set her up with. Rachel’s not interested in Zach (or his limited-edition Dungeons & Dragons dice), but after she gets stuck in a time loop, reliving the day of her parents’ Hanukkah party over and over, Zach might be her only hope of escaping to tomorrow.

In honor of the first night of Hanukkah tonight, TVLine’s got an exclusive sneak peek from the movie, in which Rachel enlists the help of Zach’s comic book store-owning friends to find a solution to her time-loop problem. When the time-traveling comic Paper Girls isn’t available, Zach and his pal Seth (Schmigadoon!’s Amitai Marmorstein) play a little “Time Warp” joke on Rachel, who’s having none of it.

Round and Round Hallmark Channel
Round and Round Hallmark Channel

“What about Doctor Strange? Does he deal in time-loop stuff? Professor X? Anyone?!” an exasperated Rachel asks. (And those aren’t the only comics or pop culture references you’ll hear in the movie.)

“This woman is unbelievable,” a stunned Seth remarks. “You just met her at a train station and she started talking to you?”

Of course, it’s not the first time that Rachel has met Zach, but it is a brand new day for him.

“Yeah, apparently, we’ve done all these things together. Like, I’ve been to her parents’ house, eaten latkes, played dreidel,” Zach explains. “Dude, she knows things about me. Like, things that you don’t even know. It’s freaking me out.”

Press PLAY to watch the scene, then hit the comments with your thoughts on Hallmark’s unconventional Hanukkah movie.

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