The first movie of Hallmark’s 2025 Loveuary releases is An Unexpected Valentine. I don’t think I’ve watched any of Lacey Chabert’s non-Christmas Hallmark movies. Her Christmas movies are rather hit-or-miss. Let’s see if she does any better with Valentine’s Day.

Hannah (Chabert), a chocolate designer about to launch a Valentine’s Day line of chocolate purses, finds an engagement ring in the backseat of her rideshare driver Finn (Robert Buckley), a photographer who has a big exhibition at a local gallery. Together, they race around the city to find the owner of the ring before Valentine’s Day ends.

So, this wasn’t as good as The Perfect Setting. Then again, I didn’t think it could fit those shoes. But it wasn’t a terrible movie. Chabert is charming, as always. Buckley is a bit boring but fine, overall. I think maybe my issue with the movie was it lacked a conflict. The closest we come to conflict is Will They Find The Owner Before They Propose and Will They Both Make Their Events. Neither of which are particularly interesting as conflicts. The only reason Hannah had to go to the chocolate purse, which is a stupid idea anyway, event is because her marketing friend is too incompetent to do the marketing herself. And Finn only has to go to his event because his gallery owner friend is too incompetent to sell Finn’s photos without him. If both of these people could do their actual jobs, Hannah and Finn could have had the whole night to themselves…which was their plan in the beginning of the movie.

If you can get over the lack of anything happening, there are some fun scenes to be found. Hannah and Finn trying to deliver a much-too-large balloon bouquet was a little funny. Crashing a drawing class, only for Hannah to be mistaken as the model of the evening…also chuckle worthy. But, alas, there wasn’t anything to make me want to really tune into An Unexpected Valentine. I guess you can’t win them all.

Rating: 3 out of 5 hearts