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Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door is a 2006 made-for-television comedy film recorded primarily on location in Avalon, California. It premiered on Hallmark Channel on February 4, 2006, and pits Shelley Long and Patty Duke as feuding neighbors. Bridget Connolly (Patty Duke) and Betsy Lucas (Shelley Long) are two social climbing society women from Catalina Island who have been continuous rivals for some unknown reason. But when Betsy's son Mark falls in love with the girl next door—who happens to be Bridget's daughter Theresa—the two women put all of their