This is a classic "realizing you are in love with your best friend" hallmark romance. Our main characters are played by Eloise Mumford and Brant Daugherty, both of Fifty Shades of Grey franchise fame. They play Annie and Matt childhood friends living in a small fictional island town in Washington (which can I say as someone who grew up in a small island Washington town, there are so many cute island towns to choose from...why not film an actual Washington town and use it?) Matt is the town baker, a job he has taken over from his French father and Annie runs a local small restaurant that she took over from her parents. The underlying theme is to find and pursue your passion...including putting passion in to what you do. Annie gives Matt some tough love telling him that his bread could be better and that he needs to put his passion in to his baking, which Matt does but then mistakenly thinks his inspiration is a ballerina that has been practicing on the island. The amazing bread that is created saves the struggling town as it brings in tourists thanks to a local seattle news broadcast. And the rest is history!
One inaccuracy that I would like to correct...all small island towns here in Washington have swimming and water safety as a mandatory course for kids in school, so for Matt to be an adult who grew up on the island...he would have had to leave during those grade school years, in order to not know how to swim. I didn't know anyone who didn't know how to swim until I moved to the city of Seattle!
(On another note I must be watching the wrong kind of French films because none of the ones I have seen end that way...Irreversible and Umbrellas of Cherbourg, to name two.)
Overall sweet enjoyable hallmark film, light and breezy with a fun supporting cast.
One inaccuracy that I would like to correct...all small island towns here in Washington have swimming and water safety as a mandatory course for kids in school, so for Matt to be an adult who grew up on the island...he would have had to leave during those grade school years, in order to not know how to swim. I didn't know anyone who didn't know how to swim until I moved to the city of Seattle!
(On another note I must be watching the wrong kind of French films because none of the ones I have seen end that way...Irreversible and Umbrellas of Cherbourg, to name two.)
Overall sweet enjoyable hallmark film, light and breezy with a fun supporting cast.