How many times has a Hallmark movie started with a young career girl hoping for a promotion to her dream job, usually in a creative field, ended up back in her hometown for some reason pressured by a strong boss to meet a date? limit in order to achieve your goal. And there she meets the love of her life. Infinite times, that's the amount. This one started out in the same stale way. But despite this exhausting beginning and a resolution of the romantic conflict at the end that I certainly didn't approve of, this wasn't too bad in the middle.
Stephanie Bennett made a believable lead girl, and I found the lead guy, Casey Deidrick, very attractive. They had excellent chemistry together. I really like his type: tall and powerful looking with a beard. I hope Hallmark keeps it. And I had no problems with it.
Director: David Weaver
Writer: Samantha Chase
Stars: Casey Deidrick, Stephanie Bennett, Luisa d'Oliveira
Trish is an assistant at a magazine who does stupid things like picking out the right nail polish color. She dreams of being a feature film writer making personal pieces that move, surprise and illuminate. She's taking a month's vacation to come home and be a bridesmaid at the weddings of three good friends that take place just a week apart. But first, she has a meeting with Helen, her boss, about some of her ideas for features she can do when she gets back. All of her proposals are tired and outdated and have been done before, as Helen points out. And it is necessary for her boss to tell him that he has the perfect and unusual story right in front of her. Being a bridesmaid 3 times in 3 weeks. So here's the thing. We immediately see that this girl has no initiative, imagination or creativity. It certainly sounds like she needs to keep the fluff and be thankful for it.
The love interest is the older brother of her male best friend of hers, who is one of her boyfriends. They are both single, so they decide to be more of each other. Each of the 3 weddings has its challenges to overcome and there is a lot Trish can write about in my opinion. But she fights. The second couple is even brave enough to call off their wedding the day before even though they love each other, because they realize their careers are more important to them than their marriage. And they both agree to that. Even happy. That was certainly different for a Hallmark movie! Her shocking decision throws a wrench into the issue of Trish's 3 weddings in 3 weeks.
Instead of realizing that this bombshell could improve her main story (in the hands of a good writer), she calls her boss to give up and quit! Honestly, this girl is hopeless. However, her boss is made of sterner stuff and she points out that writing on nail polish is easy and personal experience characteristics are hard. She has a task. She just can't give up. She has a magazine to publish. She finishes the damn article. I love her. Well, she does, between falling for the older brother, being a bridesmaid, and paddleboarding (she has a very casual approach to deadlines, which doesn't bode well for an aspiring journalist, either).
Like I said, I didn't approve of the ending either. Ryan, the love interest, is a well-known and successful world-traveling photographer. He's starting to miss family and stability with all these weddings and true love. He receives a message the day before his brother's wedding that he has to skip the reception because the rarely visible southern lights (in Australia) have appeared and his dream is to photograph them. Trish understands this and rightly encourages him to go. it's her dream. When he asks if they can keep meeting and kissing and stuff after he gets back, she says no because he's always on the go and all these weddings and stuff have made her realize that she wants love too and marriage Girl.
Ending a budding relationship with such a sexy nice guy without giving him a chance is not the way to go. Long story short, he gives up her dream job to stay home and do something else for a career so he can start a relationship with Trish. This was all backwards. She's the one who should have thought about her career goal because, from what we saw, she doesn't have what it takes for her. She should have followed him to Australia, write about it, hello?!, and then they could have found out her future later. Argh. She walks away from her life and her big career and doesn't even have a plan.
Enid-Raye Adams, who played Trish's boss, stood out. Trish's office mate and friend was Latonya Williams, one of my favorites. I was sorry to leave her in New York City when we moved to the small town. I wish she could have come. Trish could have used her good influence and her advice.
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