Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again

7.2/10 · 1,185 ratings20171h 27mWeirdness 3/10Bingo card

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The premise

The Postables discover a vase with a letter inside and must find the vase's owner. The vase's origin is suspicious and the Postables will have to decide whether to do what is right or what is legal.

How unusual is it?

Honestly? Not very — and that's the charm. It plays the hits, which is exactly the point for a cozy night in.

Who’s in it

You’ve seen this pairing before: Eric Mabius and Kristin Booth have made 15 Hallmark movies together.

Behind the camera

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Directed by

Wait, what?

The quirks and curveballs that make this one a little weirder than your average Hallmark. No spoilers, promise.

  • The concept of 'Postal Detectives' operating out of a secret room behind a wall.
  • A legendary mail carrier named Harry Snapp who hid in the building to scratch lottery tickets.
  • Norman's 'unremitting convulsive stomach syndrome'.
  • The 'Area 51' cocktail made with almond milk and cactus root.
  • A museum dedicated entirely to barbed wire.
  • An engagement ring shaped like an owl that is lost in a laundry service and found in a snowboot.

Every trope, all in one place

Here’s everything this one has going on, from the setting to the way it wraps up. Tap any of the 27 to find more movies that do the same thing.

How it all plays out

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Full story (spoilers)
The film begins with a 1999 flashback where three sisters—Peggy, Mary Lou, and Bunny—mail a porcelain vase to an art dealer in a desperate attempt to save their family farm. In the present day, Shane accidentally breaks through a wall in the Dead Letter Office, revealing a secret room used by Harry Snapp, a mail carrier who vanished 18 years prior. Inside is his final delivery bag, containing the waterlogged vase and a heartbreaking letter from 10-year-old Mary Lou explaining that their father died in a tractor accident and their mother is incapacitated by grief. Oliver and the team track the vase to the Kellser farm in Edgewood, Colorado, where they find the family still struggling and facing an imminent foreclosure auction. Meanwhile, Rita’s eccentric hippie parents, Bill and Sunny, arrive from Albuquerque to meet Norman. Norman, suffering from 'unremitting convulsive stomach syndrome' due to nerves, accidentally loses Rita's owl-shaped engagement ring in the laundry. As the POstables investigate the vase, they learn from an expert that it is an 18th-century masterpiece worth over $300,000, but further research by Shane and a special agent reveals a dark history: the vase was confiscated from the Rubel family in 1939 by the Nazis. Oliver travels to New York to facilitate a satellite call with Mary Lou, now a war correspondent in a combat zone, to get her consent to handle the vase. The team is devastated to tell the Kellsers that the vase must be returned to its rightful owner, Johann Rubel, meaning it cannot save the farm. However, at the auction, a mystery bidder—the O'Toole Foundation—buys the farm for $400,000. Oliver reveals he is using his inheritance to turn the farm into a sustainable agriculture education center, allowing the Kellsers to stay and hiring Rita’s parents to run it. Mary Lou returns home for a tearful reunion, and Norman finally finds the engagement ring in a snowboot, leading to a formal proposal. The film concludes with Oliver and Shane agreeing to 'go steady' under a set of quirky rules.

Beat by beat

  1. Opening

    Shane discovers a secret room in the DLO containing the lost 1999 mailbag of legendary carrier Harry Snapp.

  2. Inciting Incident

    The team finds a waterlogged vase and a letter from a child pleading for help to save her family's farm.

  3. Midpoint

    The POstables visit the Kellser farm and realize the family is still in crisis and the mother is terminally ill.

  4. Complication

    Investigation reveals the vase is Nazi-looted art, meaning it must be returned to the original owner's estate rather than sold for the Kellsers.

  5. Climax

    The farm goes to auction; the O'Toole Foundation outbids developers to save the land for a conservancy.

  6. Resolution

    Mary Lou returns from the war zone to reunite with her sisters; Norman proposes to Rita with the recovered owl ring.

27 tropes in one movie

We counted 27 distinct Hallmark tropes packed into this one — a genuine greatest-hits reel.

How it stacks up

Where this one’s rating lands against every other rated Hallmark movie.

Rating 7.2 vs every rated Hallmark moviemedian 6.4This movie · 7.2567

Higher-rated than 96% of every rated Hallmark movie. The median is 6.4.

Where this one fits

The corners of the catalog Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again belongs to — handy if you’re after more of the same.

Signed, Sealed, DeliveredPart of the 15-film Signed, Sealed, Delivered series.

Lines worth quoting

The lines that stuck with us — the ones you’ll be repeating after the credits roll.

  • “What do you got in here anyway? Hope.”
    — Mr. Everett / Mary LouDiscussing the contents of the package containing the vase.
  • “True antiques have character... and provenance... a history, a pedigree. But junk is, well, just... trash waiting to be made into treasure.”
    — Oliver O'TooleDiscussing Shane's empty picture frame.
  • “I'd rather lose this farm than lose my soul, Peggy.”
    — Kim KellserDeciding to return the Nazi-looted vase to its rightful owner.

Meet the characters

Who’s who before you press play. Nothing here gives the ending away.

  • Oliver O'Toole

    Lead

    Postal Detective / Section Leader

    FormalEthicalTraditionalWealthy
  • Shane McInerney

    Love interest

    Postal Detective / Tech Expert

    Colleague and romantic interest

    ModernIntuitiveResourceful
  • Rita Haywith

    Supporting

    Postal Detective

    Colleague

    Photographic memorySweetQuirky
  • Norman Dorman

    Supporting

    Postal Detective / Research Expert

    Colleague

    Socially awkwardBrilliantAnxious
  • Bill Haywith

    Supporting

    Furniture Builder / Former Hippie

    Rita's father

    SpontaneousSkepticalMusical

Questions people ask about Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again

Where can I watch Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again?

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again is available via fuboTV, Philo, and Hallmark+ Amazon Channel. Streaming options change often, so check current availability before settling in.

How long is Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again?

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again runs about 1 hour and 27 minutes, and was released in 2017.

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