My review of sorts...

This film is as easy to watch as an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos. I mean that it's harmless, you can't help but stop and watch it a while, and in the end you might just end up liking it enough to want to see it again. The title gives it a bit of a more suggestive slant than it needs to, but you will be pleasantly surprised by the wholesomeness of it once you start watching.

The cast is well placed - Mircea Monroe is good as Alex, daughter of the local racing legend who died on the track when she was a child. Now she's got the racing bug, but everything's stacked up against her: her uncle, the local racetrack's manager won't sign off on her card to go pro, she's working a job as a waitress and seemingly walks EVERYWHERE because she can't get her car to start, even though she built it from the chassis up.

Justin Guarini as actor I thought at first would have been a misfire, but he did well as Darryl, who is a pro racer and part of a visiting team looking for a new driver. Caroline Rhea was perfect as the down home waitress/mother figure Alex needs to get some womanly perspective. The rest of the cast I didn't recognize as much, but they all did well too.

Now for the negatives: The movie is somewhat cheesy, and the sometimes overwhelming sweetness (and the even 'sweeter' music? don't get me started) gave me a bit of a toothache, bit it's the first time in a long time since I saw a movie-of-the-week-type film enough to want to see it again.

This movie will go over very well in towns like Kankakee, Illinois and Shelbyville, Indiana - two places I have visited and found that are definitely down home, and definitely fit the mold of Middle America, and Redboxes there should pick up on this - and these are the kind of places where racing and the kind of family values go hand in hand, and the local video store would be well advised to stock this movie.

Yes, once again, it's a bit over the top in places, it can be a bit predictable, but the driving sequences seem authentic enough, the acting is very well done and the plot isn't that thin that you have to groan that much.

It's 90 plus minutes of good family entertainment, and it ranks up there next to other wholesome decently-made-with-heart movies like "Firehouse Dog" and the Mandy Moore movie from a few years back "A Walk To Remember".

I give it on the IMDB scale 7 out of 10 stars, and 3 out 4 stars anywhere else.

If you do rent/buy it, enjoy - you'll be surprised that it does have a good heart.

(p.s. - No, I don't have any connection to the small film company Matador Pictures, or are related to anyone or have any kind of financial connection to this film - I live and work in Chicago and found it recently on satellite, so I thought I'd give everyone out there my .02)