Advanced Review: Signed Sealed Delivered: The Impossible Dream

The first Signed Sealed Delivered two-hour movie debuted back in 2013, starring Ugly Betty alum Eric Mabius as well as Kristin Booth (Orphan Black), Crystal Lowe and Geoff Gustafson (both from Primeval: New World), as postal employees working in the dead letter office.

Since that debut, Signed Sealed Delivered became a short-lived one-hour drama on the Hallmark Channel before reverting back to two-hour movies on the sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. The fifth in the popular, and family-friendly franchise, dubbed The Impossible Dream will debut tomorrow evening, revisiting a storyline from the previous movie Truth Be Told.

In that movie a badly damaged letter ended up in the dead letter office (DLO) of the Denver United States Post Office, leading the POstables (the decorated team of dedicated postal employees who use unique methods to track down recipients of letters that find their way to the DLO) to track down a young girl named Phoebe, whose mother had gone missing in action in Afghanistan two years prior.

That story is continued in The Impossible Dream as it is revealed that the MIA soldier – Randilynn Amidon – is actually alive, but being held by insurgence. However, she receives help from an unexpected source, who is able to get a coded letter sent back to the United States. A letter for which the POstables inadvertently learn about while in Washington, DC for the national competition of Miss Special Delivery for which Rita (one of the POstables) is a contestant.

Throughout the two-hour movie the members of the POstables address a Senate subcommittee in the hopes of convincing them that Amidon is alive and needs to be rescued. The movie is primarily seen in flashbacks to the events leading up to the subcommittee closed-door meeting as well as the arduous trek made by Amidon in the desert-like conditions of Afghanistan.

I won’t ruin the touching ending to this movie, but it is a Hallmark movie so you can expect it to be a good one with plenty of tissues needed for those who are easily moved.

The film also stars Mark Valley (Boston Legal), who is a former paramour of Shane (one of the other members of the POstables), and an agent for the Department of Defense.

Signed Sealed Delivered: The Impossible Dream will debut tomorrow, Sunday, October 4 on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 9/8c.

NOTE: For fans of this franchise, Hallmark has announced that four more movies have been ordered for 2016.