The female protagonist of the Hallmark Channel movie Playing Cupid is school teacher Kerri Fox (Laura Vandervoort). When one of her students, 13-year-old Clara (Mia Quaranta De La Rosa), launches a matchmaking business as a school project, Clara sees potential love between Ms. Fox and her handsome father, restauranteur/chef David (Nicholas Gonzalez).
Kerri and David don’t see eye-to-eye in the beginning but eventually — while munching on the “tangy sugar treats” known as Cinnihearts — they let down their guards and fall in love.
The film is being promoted as “a modern-day Emma” the classic novel by Jane Austen.
Alas, there’s no trace of a Cinnihearts candy brand online although in downtown Duncan, British Columbia (many Hallmark movies are filmed in BC!) you can buy a pastry version called “mini cinni hearts” and beautiful “baby cakes” (as seen in the photos below) at Duncan Garage Café & Bakery.
Playing Cupid premieres on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, February 13 at 9 pm.
