‘HOME TURF’: FOOTBALL AND FUN IS GOOD PLAY IN ROM-COM
Back in a new (and as always, cute) romance from Hallmark, Nikki DeLoah leads Home Turf. A story that tackles something we don’t see too often on the network.
Home Turf (2025) TV Film Review
As the new president of a small college Cassidy (DeLoach) inherits more than one challenge. Thing is, she is good under pressure and handling these responsibilities. She manages this all by being an organized person with a schedule. Still, she needs to unwind which she does in her neat and quiet home. When a housing issue crops up, she finds her home becomes the temporary housing for five football players.
Naturally, their lifestyles don’t exactly mesh.
Having freshman as roommates is more of a challenge than even Cassidy plans on. But it’s this change in her life that brings with it the arrival of the head football coach Logan (Warren Christie).
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‘HOME TURF’: FOOTBALL AND FUN IS GOOD PLAY IN ROM-COM. See #NikkiDeLoach with former screen partner #WarrenChristie lead one of the final non-#Christmas #Hallmark films of 2025! #HomeTurf Share on XFootball isn’t something Hallmark uses a lot. But one of my favorites from them is the oldie (by industry standards) Love on the Sidelines. Another more recent title that was cute is Fourth Down and Love, both of which were standouts because of the sport themes. I’m not a sporty girl, but I do understand that using different things encourages something to be memorable. At least for me it does. Following in those footsteps is Home Turf, a cute flick by its own merits.
DeLoach is a familiar face not only because of her standalone film romance flicks, but also because she is one half of the Curious Caterer movie series, and in those, she’s quite memorable as Goldy Berry. She plays the same type of organized and likable character and seeing her in this makes me hope anew there will be more cozy mysteries featuring her! Similarly, Warren Christie is someone we’ve seen a few times, and I first saw from the (again) older title The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. These two also appeared in last year’s Our Holiday Story.
Bottom line is always the same. The movie is cute. There are some genuinely cute and funny things about the story and I did enjoy the film as one of the last non-Christmas offerings of this year.
Stream, at publication, Home Turf next day on Hallmark+
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Content: The film is TV-G and has very much the same content as any Hallmark flick you’d sit down to watch.
