The 12 Dates of Christmas trailer reunites Lucy Hale and Ian Harding
Lucy Hale plays a shop owner giving her love life a deadline: 12 dates before Christmas, with former Pretty Little Liars co-star Ian Harding joining her.
The short answer: Lucy Hale plays a shop owner giving her love life a deadline: 12 dates before Christmas, with former Pretty Little Liars co-star Ian Harding joining her.
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Christina Walker has built a successful business. Her love life has received rather less attention. In The 12 Dates of Christmas, she gives romance a deadline: 12 dates in the 12 weeks before Christmas. The new Disney+ UK trailer introduces the festive film starring Lucy Hale and Ian Harding.
Hale plays Christina, a shop owner watching her younger siblings marry while she remains single. Their weddings prompt her promise to herself, sending her into online dating in search of Mr Right. Along the way, unexpected connections and personal growth complicate what might otherwise sound like another target to meet.
A familiar pairing, a different romance
For Pretty Little Liars viewers, the casting brings its own attraction. Hale and Harding previously played Aria and Ezra; now they reunite as love interests in a Christmas story. It gives fans a familiar pairing to follow into a new romance.
Speaking to On The Red Carpet at the film’s première, in an interview published on 5 November, Hale described how easily they settled back into working together:
We picked up right like that. He is just as wonderful as he always has been. Lucy Hale, speaking to On The Red Carpet
Harding offered a similar account. He said they slipped back into conversation so readily that he sometimes struggled to distinguish their scripted lines from their own exchanges. He described much of their interaction during filming as off the cuff.
The project also marks Hale’s first Christmas film. Harding described it as playful and charming, with plenty of romance but without excessive sentimentality — his account of what this reunion brings to a festive love story.
When is it coming to Disney+?
David Lipper directs the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Seth Howard. The 12 Dates of Christmas is due to stream from 6 November, with Geektown’s Disney+ UK guide listing the British release as Friday 6 November 2026.