This was a pretty enjoyable rom-com. Not perfect, but for what it was, it was good. This is a Pixl/UPTV production, and the plotline is a bit more original than you might find on Hallmark.
I enjoyed the performances of Cassie Steele and Ryan Kennedy as the leads. They were genuine, likable and they seemed to have chemistry, at least when they were together. I wish they had been given more screen time together, even if it was on the phone and not in person. This movie should have been more like a "You've Got Mail" scenario, where the leads were having regular contact with each other throughout the movie, both face-to-face and otherwise, before the final resolution where their identities are revealed.
The plotline relied a whole lot on serendipity. Like, a WHOLE lot. It bordered on the ridiculous after a while. You had Jeff connected with Kelly on AutoCall, and they just happen to live in the same city, even though AutoCall has centers across the nation. You had their respective friends just happening to connect as a couple themselves. You had them just happening to pass by each other in the same restaurant, and then just happening to meet by chance later in Jeff's friend Zack's coffee shop. Then, you have Kelly's interior design firm just happening to be doing work on Jeff's boss's house, and Jeff just happening to show up at that house when Kelly is there. And yet, even with all these wildly impossible coincidences, it still takes those two a full movie to get together! Okay, it is a movie, and we need to suspend a little disbelief, but there seems to be an overabundance of disbelief to be suspended here.
The mid-movie plot twist, where Jeff's duplicitous work colleague Tom pretends to be him and goes out with Kelly, was pretty original. I'm not sure how he intended to keep that up long-term. Also not sure why he didn't eventually fess up to what he had done. But they make Tom's character just slimy enough to make this believable.
I like how Jeff's sensitive side comes out, especially when he is making the painful decision to really move on from his late wife, and when he is explaining to his boss that he left a good advertising job to work in a call center because his wife had died in a car accident. I'm glad they gave a logical and heartfelt reason for that otherwise nonsensical career move.
So, if you're looking for a feel-good, romantic movie with good performances and likable characters, this is your movie. It has a few rough spots, but just overlook them, like you would if you were watching your kid's school play, and you will love it.
I enjoyed the performances of Cassie Steele and Ryan Kennedy as the leads. They were genuine, likable and they seemed to have chemistry, at least when they were together. I wish they had been given more screen time together, even if it was on the phone and not in person. This movie should have been more like a "You've Got Mail" scenario, where the leads were having regular contact with each other throughout the movie, both face-to-face and otherwise, before the final resolution where their identities are revealed.
The plotline relied a whole lot on serendipity. Like, a WHOLE lot. It bordered on the ridiculous after a while. You had Jeff connected with Kelly on AutoCall, and they just happen to live in the same city, even though AutoCall has centers across the nation. You had their respective friends just happening to connect as a couple themselves. You had them just happening to pass by each other in the same restaurant, and then just happening to meet by chance later in Jeff's friend Zack's coffee shop. Then, you have Kelly's interior design firm just happening to be doing work on Jeff's boss's house, and Jeff just happening to show up at that house when Kelly is there. And yet, even with all these wildly impossible coincidences, it still takes those two a full movie to get together! Okay, it is a movie, and we need to suspend a little disbelief, but there seems to be an overabundance of disbelief to be suspended here.
The mid-movie plot twist, where Jeff's duplicitous work colleague Tom pretends to be him and goes out with Kelly, was pretty original. I'm not sure how he intended to keep that up long-term. Also not sure why he didn't eventually fess up to what he had done. But they make Tom's character just slimy enough to make this believable.
I like how Jeff's sensitive side comes out, especially when he is making the painful decision to really move on from his late wife, and when he is explaining to his boss that he left a good advertising job to work in a call center because his wife had died in a car accident. I'm glad they gave a logical and heartfelt reason for that otherwise nonsensical career move.
So, if you're looking for a feel-good, romantic movie with good performances and likable characters, this is your movie. It has a few rough spots, but just overlook them, like you would if you were watching your kid's school play, and you will love it.