Lifetime has provided Blackfilmandtv.com with an exclusive look to the trailer and photos to its new original movie Love on the Vineyard, starring NAACP Image Award nominee Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Precious) and Film Independent Spirit Award-winning actor Derek Luke (13 Reasons Why, Antwone Fisher). The movie marks the stars’ reunion in a moving story about love, healing, family and second chances. NAACP Image Award nominee Janet Hubert (Demascus, Sweet Magnolias) also stars. The film expand its Love of a Lifetime franchise of elevated, emotionally rich love stories.
Emmy Award-winning executive producer Tracey E. Edmonds (Soul Food, Jumping the Broom, End of the Road, With This Ring) returns to Lifetime to executive produce the film, which is set against the iconic backdrop of Martha’s Vineyard. The movie also celebrates the rich cultural legacy of Oak Bluffs, one of America’s most treasured historic Black communities.
The film will close out Lifetime’s fall slate on Saturday, November 21, at 8/7c, following the previously announced romantic films Terry McMillan Presents: Paradise with You, starring Taye Diggs, Heather Hemmens and Cynthia Bailey, and One Last Shot, starring, written and executive produced by Tisha Campbell, premiering November 14. Together, the films celebrate connection, second chances, unexpected relationships and the belief that love can find you at any stage of life.
Patton stars as Jordan Wilson, a successful Washington, D.C., commercial real estate executive who returns to Martha’s Vineyard with her teenage daughter after years away. There, Jordan reconnects with Eric Robinson (Derek Luke), her former summer love, and becomes involved in a fight to save a beloved historic inn in Oak Bluffs, one that holds deep significance for the island’s Black community. As Jordan works to protect the property, she must navigate grief, family tensions, and the possibility of a second chance at love, discovering that preserving the past may be the key to embracing her future and reclaiming the love she thought she had lost forever.
