Teri Hatcher and James Tupper have been announced as the latest names to join Hallmark’s upcoming film Mid-Love Crisis. Hatcher and Tupper will be joined by Brian Markinson, June Laporte, and Matreya Scarrwener in the newest film by Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, reportedly set to be released this fall.
Mid-Love Crisis will feature Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) as Mindy, a single mom who’s nearly 50 and realizing she’s solidly in the middle of a mid-life crisis – during a long weekend with her daughter Rita (June Laporte) and Rita’s girlfriend Emily (Matrya Scarrwener), Mindy unexpectedly runs into her old high school sweetheart Sam (James Tupper), who just so happens to be Emily’s uncle and single as well. However, anything that might have blossomed between Mindy and Sam is soon complicated when Rita tells Mindy that she wants her father to join them on vacation, putting both of Mindy’s exes under the same roof for the first time in decades.
Mid-Love Crisis will reportedly follow Mindy throughout an eventful weekend in which “Mindy finds herself not only embracing her life but discovering what it is she truly wants as she gets ready to start the next chapter.”
Teri Hatcher and James Tupper in ‘Mid-Love Crisis’
A very well-known actress and TV personality, Teri Hatcher’s career in Hollywood stretches back to the 1980s, with her 1985 role as Amy in The Love Boat. Some of Hatcher’s other roles include Donna in the original Quantum Leap (1989), Penny Parker in MacGyver (1986), Sidra Holland in Seinfeld (1993), and Susan Myer/Susan Delfino in Desperate Housewives (2004).
Regarding Teri Hatcher’s casting as Mindy, Hallmark Media executive Elizabeth Yost told Variety, “Teri Hatcher has both impeccable comedic timing and the ability to play dramatic roles, which made her the perfect choice to bring Mindy to life…She and James Tupper have such great chemistry on screen, and we know our viewers will be drawn to their characters’ story.”
James Tupper’s acting career is shorter but no less varied than his co-star’s, with Tupper’s acting history including roles in How I Met Your Mother (2005), Samantha Who? (2008), and Grey’s Anatomy (2010). Tupper also starred as Jack Slattery in Men in Trees (2006), where he starred alongside actress Anne Heche, who was later the mother of his son Atlas Heche Tupper.
Mid-Love Crisis, starring Teri Hatcher and James Tupper, hails from Lighthouse Pictures via Shawn Williamson, Jamie Goehring, and Trevor McWhinney. Joie Botkin will serve as a writer, with Robert Lycar as producer and Terry Ingram as director.
