Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door

Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door is a Hallmark Channel original television movie filmed primarily on location in Avalon, Catalina Island. It premiered on February 4, 2006, and pits Shelley Long and Patty Duke as feuding neighbors. Bridget Connolly and Betsy Lucas are two social climbing society women from Catalina Island who have been continuous rivals for some unknown reason. But when Betsy's son Mark falls in love with the girl next door--who happens to be Bridget's daughter Theresa—the two women put all of their energy in to planning the wedding, much to the chagrin of their... children. Bruce Boxleitner and Patrick Duffy bonded while filming, playing golf regularly when they weren't shooting the film. Long, Duke, Duffy, and Boxleitner also had fun off the set together. Almost every night after filming, the four adults would run up and down the hotel hallways and lobby armed with cap pistols and have shoot-outs.
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