When a young widow rents a room to a mysterious veteran, their attraction sparks unforeseen circumstances.
As it is a Gravitas Ventures film I adopted my usual method for films distributed by them. They are frequently self financed or budget movies, often by unknown stars and sometimes first time directors, so quality isn't always what you'd hope.
However while the quality isn't there in this film it is a very watchable story and a heart warming one too. The film is carried really by Skyler Samuels who plays Lillian, and Cole Sibus who plays her brother Arrow. It's very predictable, sometimes a little slowly paced, with chunks of self pity that is so common in American films, and a hefty dose of melodrama.
Lillian takes in a lodger who upsets the applecart between her and her boyfriend. But I'll be very honest, I didn't get the whole thing. At the end we see the lodger in jail, with a letter from Lillian saying she loved him. (Which is fine because her boyfriend pointedly said "Goodbye Lillian." in the hospital but she smiled in return and I have no idea why he left her.
But quite why the lodger was in jail I had no idea either. It may have said so in the story but I could not be bothered to go back and find it. Perhaps my attention had drifted? The dialogue was sometimes difficult to hear, and sometimes just irritating or nonsensical. So I may have tuned out important bits.
Overall I still give it a 5 as Sibus and Samuels made it highly watchable.
As it is a Gravitas Ventures film I adopted my usual method for films distributed by them. They are frequently self financed or budget movies, often by unknown stars and sometimes first time directors, so quality isn't always what you'd hope.
However while the quality isn't there in this film it is a very watchable story and a heart warming one too. The film is carried really by Skyler Samuels who plays Lillian, and Cole Sibus who plays her brother Arrow. It's very predictable, sometimes a little slowly paced, with chunks of self pity that is so common in American films, and a hefty dose of melodrama.
Lillian takes in a lodger who upsets the applecart between her and her boyfriend. But I'll be very honest, I didn't get the whole thing. At the end we see the lodger in jail, with a letter from Lillian saying she loved him. (Which is fine because her boyfriend pointedly said "Goodbye Lillian." in the hospital but she smiled in return and I have no idea why he left her.
But quite why the lodger was in jail I had no idea either. It may have said so in the story but I could not be bothered to go back and find it. Perhaps my attention had drifted? The dialogue was sometimes difficult to hear, and sometimes just irritating or nonsensical. So I may have tuned out important bits.
Overall I still give it a 5 as Sibus and Samuels made it highly watchable.