Why aren't there Easter romance movies?

Cafe Society
1

Sure, every easter the bring out the old standards - Ben Hur, Greatest Story… even Jesus Christ Superstar.

But where are the romances? Why should Christmas be the only lucky beneficiary of Hollywood and Hallmark?

Where is A Prince for Easter? Easter Bride? Home For Easter?

If not them, how about heartwarming fun family movies?

Like Hoppy. The story of a man (played by Ben Stiller) that was raised in Easter Bunnyland, and travels to find his dad in Florida?

Or Rudolph’s Magical Easter. Rudolph and Herbie/Hermie and Yukon help find homes for all the misfit chocolate bunnies, the ones with no ears or tails.

Or how about Easter, Actually, in which British PM Boris (played by Nick Nolte) finds romance with the neglected wife of president trump (played by Kim Kardashian).

2

Easter Parade is an Easter romance Easter Parade (film) - Wikipedia - it starts with the hero meeting the girl on Easter and by the next Easter, they are in love.

3

Well, maybe you could remake Harvey as an Easter bromance.

4

Here Comes Peter Cottontail (Here Comes Peter Cottontail - Wikipedia) has a certain similarity to this. Peter Cottontail uses holiday-centric time travel to win a Easter-Egg delivery contest and gets the prize (and the girl-bunny).

5

I dunno if Hallmark is going to pick up a movie that, upon reading the description, nearly everyone will say ‘oh, like Donnie Darko’.

Donnie Darko really ruined my ability to recommend that movie to people.

6

Jaime rolls to Antigua Guatemala for the world’s largest Semana Santa (Easter Week) gathering outside Spain. He ventures from the Posada La Merced to watch a passing procession and is pick-pocketed. He feels the thief’s hand, grabs the wrist… and pulls in a rouge nun. They fall in love but must evade the local police, running across cobbled streets past quake-shattered adobe edifices and scads of Mayan women selling erotic rabbit trinkets. Hilarity ensues.

This could be edited together from outtakes from Looking For Palladin, Ixcanul, and Viva Maria! Easy-peasy.

7

That’s a good one. I’ve never seen the movie, but I did see clips on That’s Entertainment! Should have remembered.

8

Rapa Nui.

Oh, the holiday. NM.

9

There’s at least one Hallmark Easter Movie:

10

Not a movie or set during Easter, but A Day In The Life of Marlon Bundo is a heartwarming family-friendly bunny romance.

Stranger

11

It’s a fun movie, available at fairly low cost on several services.

12

I just hope no one at The Hallmark Channel is reading this thread… let’s leave a holiday or two unsullied by made-for-TV romances.

I mean, where might that lead? “Not So Fast, Fast of Gedalia”
While shopping on 5th Avenue, a pair of surprisingly WASPy-looking actor/models bump into each other and retrieve the wrong hats in the melee.
They finally track each other down, and realize their odd accoutrements are because they’re both the only ones in their families who commemorate the assassination of Gedalia, governor of Judah… and whimsey ensues.
Starring a Jonas brother, a Kardashian or two, and Lori Loughlin as the wise-yet-incarcerated aunt.

13

What you mean like Jesus’s love for you? :wink:

How would that necessarily work, a sweep off your feet over the Triduum? Meeting on Maundy Thursday with an awkward washing of feet, a misunderstanding with the leaving in silence on Good Friday, only to find love at Easter Vigil? :wink:

14

They used to show the Ten Commandments on TV at Easter but they did not this year.

15

There are plenty of Christmas romances that have nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. Why not Easter romances that have nothing to do with his passion, death, or resurrection?

16

Christmas has a become far more of a secular holiday than Easter, even with all the bunny stuff.

17

Not really about Easter, but in Mall Rats a mall Easter Bunny is part of the plot. Also, plenty of spring break movies have been made that occur around Easter time.

18

“Their love for each other was dead. Then miraculously, days later their relationship came back to life. Sunday on the Hallmark Channel”

19

I think it is largely this. Christmas movies and references in the culture are often extremely secular. It seems like Christmas movies are more likely to reference Santa Claus than Jesus Christ and the Christmas plot device is more going to center around the family get together more than the “holy” aspects of the holiday.

Easter is still a more Christian tradition, with less traveling for it. It doesn’t have as much of a cross-religion or secular appeal. It stands to reason that the entertainment industry, which is probably more secular than Americans on average, doesn’t tend to produce Easter themed content. I suspect on average it is more likely to be outside their comfort zone and experience.

20

Christmas is a whole season. There’s just a lot more space to have the plot be Christmas related and more time where it will have that “Watching a Christmas movie during the Christmas season”-appeal.

Sure CVS will start selling chocolate bunnies late in February, but how many people do you know who is counting down to Easter? Dying to put up their Easter lights? Put their decorations up at the same time the stores do. There is just a lot less to have the plot revolve around, and a much shorter window where the resulting product will be topical and have max marketing appeal.