The kid made this movie. Really cute, non-annoying portrayal of mischievious, highly intelligent son who schemes to find a wife for his widowed impossibly handsome Dad. Well played by all with a better than usual script and some funny lines, especially by the evil agent with designs on the hero.
shareHe was cute and the best part of the movie. What I don't like about Hallmark romances is the children always have better chemistry with the love interest than the would-be boyfriend. The scripts are all the same. A widower (can never be divorced) has a child that wants their parent to have a new person, you never get the impression the widower really wants or loves the new person, just that he feels obligated to take her and she'll never really match up to his first wife.
How that is romantic in any way is beyond me. I would never want a man just because his kid wanted him to have someone but the man himself didn't really want me.
This was just a recycled version of Uncorked, although a little better in some ways. Ryan McPartlin did a little better job faking it than Scott Elrod did that his character was in love with the lead female, but not by much, and it wouldn't be hard to have beat Scott's lackluster performance in Uncorked.
Overall, it was a disappointment. Hallmark needs to stop recycling plots, they're worse with this than The Brady Bunch was!
I wish they would do a flash-forward 5 years on these movies and show how this scenario would really play out: The woman realizes she's not wanted, finds a real man who does want a woman, and the man remains the way he wants to be: alone.
There are only so many basic plots when it comes to romantic comedies. And the child playing the matchmaker to an unsuspecting parent and prospective mother/father has certainly been done to death! However, with this one, the kid could certainly deliver a line!
shareYes, he was definitely a better actor than some of the kids in these movies and a more endearing character.
I do think the characters and acting were better than in Uncorked, just that I wish they'd change the plot and make it more obvious that the man really wants a woman so it seems more romantic, rather than leaving me with doubt thinking that he's doing it just to please his friends and family. It's hard enough for a person to feel they can meet up to a dead spouse as it is, but if the widow or widower doesn't really seem like he/she cares to have a new love, it makes it even worse.
Do you people even watch movies that you comment on? The Dad liked the girl and so did the son, but the Dad choose Sam for himself.
shareI watched it. The father didn't really want a new love, it was the son that wanted him to get a girlfriend.
This is the same script that Hallmark movies recycle all the time. A widower likes living alone but his friends and family thinks he needs someone so they push the single girl heroine of the movie onto the man, and he finally goes along with it.
That's what I don't like about their romantic movies, most of them anyway, because it never changes.
Ryan McPartlin did a better job than Scott Elrod did in Uncorked, but I still never got much of an impression that Heath was really attracted to Sam. I think this is because of the script. They like to make the man very shy and standoffish and compare the new woman to the deceased one.
In Uncorked, I never, ever got the impression that Scott Elrod's character truly was attracted to Julie Benz' character. Uncorked was much worse than this movie, but it was very similar.
Not sure why you think he didn't really want her. The movie definitely showed that he did. Sure his son pushed him into it but he was stuck where he was. His feelings for her inspired him to do his photography again.
I think it was more about their chemistry. In some movies, the couples they put together just don't seem to work as well as others and that can translate on screen to maybe seeming uninterested.
Well it is true that they lacked chemistry but I felt like the writing was part of it. Hallmark always does these movies about widows who are content to wait until they can join their spouse in the afterlife, but their child/family tells them they have to move on so they take up with the resident lonely single woman, it's their formula and it's gotten so old that they can no longer sell it.
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