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Who cast this movie? Mom and dad are more of an age to be grandparents.

Jane (Ann Pirvu) is devastated after losing both her boyfriend and her job. She is headed back home for Thanksgiving. Despite her better judgement, she picks up a stranded motorist on the side of the road.

Ann Pirvu is doing her quirky single gal who doesn't need a man but actually needs a man. She is doing her adorable best. There are some questionable aspects of the story. It's suppose to be cute but it's very questionable. I wouldn't suggest picking up a stranger on the side of the road. Also the sibling rivalry leans too far into real hate. It needs to be fun, not angry. The brother is a real problem. I'm willing to buy Pirvu's cuteness acting and accept the standard rom-com tropes despite the shortcomings.

Adult main character has temper tantrums... seriously?! The brother and sister in law had horrible acting, the mother wasn't much better. The only 2 actors that really didn't over act would be the father and Chris.

As for the plot, all that's happened here is combining other hallmark movies. Baking competition, done Fake relationship, done Returning home, done

What a waste of time.

The acting is horrible! And the plot has already been done countless times. Is this simply a chance to give some unknown actors something to work on? They can't keep the plot straight...the brother comes in on his sister and Chris and says, it's true you two are seeing each other then in the next scene he is saying they must be fake dating....does the brother believe they are dating or not??

Very immature behaviour throughout from an adult young woman

The main character and the "love interest" were mediocre. ZERO chemistry. The script vs how they delivered it was totally off. The connection was also very forced. My main issue was that brother! Am I the only one that was annoyed with his flamboyance? I stopped watching during the scene when he totally went off on her in the meanest way I had EVER seen in a hallmark movie. Didn't care to see how it ended. This movie should not be played in rotation!

Terrible!! Not going to waste time writing a long review. Just Terrible.

Enjoy it for its simplicity and acting. Ann Pirvu is truly cute, charming and heart warming. The camera work, lighting and scenery all add to watching this innocent lovely family oriented movie. It was overall a pleasure. The right title and cast. Many lessons from the messages in this production. Worth watching.

From the beginning of the movie it is clear that the writer has a very stilted perspective when it comes to family dynamics. The main character is a millennial that is developmentally arrested at the age of 13. Her brother is written as the main villain and is given zero depth. He's just obtusely mean whenever he's in the scene and all of his interactions with his sister are just him being rude while she complains that he is rude. The parents are written like boring white bred grandparents, complete with the busted tropes of "mom always cooks" and "dad likes radios". I couldn't take this movie, it's characters, or the story seriously at all. It felt like the writer was just trying to sort out their own family problems in the frame of a tacky Thanksgiving romance. How did this get made? Don't waste your time on this one, it's not even the funny sort of bad. It's just boring and whiny and filled with empty scenes to stretch the run time. Watch Holidate instead!

Shockingly bad ...time I can never even claw back. Seen better acting in school plays. Chris (I think that was the lead male character) & the dad were the only ones who actually 'acted' and as for the brother...oh brother! Just, no...noone would behave like that, it was simply embarrassing. Diabolical. Bad script, no story line and just toe curlingly bad all round. And still I need to go on to fill the 600 word criteria... please do not wast your valuable time on this, dreadful, painful, badly acted, non story mashed up from all other bad made for tv movie scripts. I can't even believe I managed to limp through it myself, so you don't have to.

This is the second Hallmark movie that I have watched today in which the lead actress was childish and eschewed any makeup making them plain and boring. Other female actresses were beautifully made up and far more attractive and interesting. The lead actor isn't high romance material. His acting was fine, but he needed completely different hair, and his wardrobe is sloppy. Bad casting. The writers' humor was abrasive. The conversations were too squeaky. Sequencing along the plot line was out of order. This could be the fault of editing. This movie was painful to watch. The only reason why I got through it was due to the time it took to type my review while trying to ignore the dialogue.

Fun enough for a made for TV holiday romance. It could have benefited from better acting, better writing, better casting, better directing, better editing, more character development, more likable characters, a plausible story line, a faster pace, emotions that matched the story arc, and a 40 minute run time. Also fewer caricatures and stereotypes, fewer silly gags, less facial contorting, better dialog... OK, the only thing that made this tolerable was that Ann Pirvu is kind of cute at times even though I wanted to slap her every minute or two along with her brother. Otherwise, it was just peachy!

I've seen Ms Pirvu in a couple of productions and you only have to look at her face to see what's she's feeling or thinking.

I've seen some of the reviews, and mostly they're complaints about the main character. I have to disagree. I believe the writers made her more juvenile on purpose, to show her growth through the movie. I found the two main characters very believable and real. Though this story line has been done several times previously, I felt these two were more real than most, especially the male character of Chris. The humor between them, and honesty, and normal, non hallmark style, drama infused dialogue is a refreshing watch.

While its not perfect, its definitely one of the better ones out there. Finally.

It seems unfair to define this film because it seems only a puzzle using pieces from other Hallmark films, proposing, in essence, almost nothing. A film in which a selfish character , in unrealistic manner, after a sort of fake relation, preserving, so fresh , memories from school years, discovers the love of her life. Unfortunatelly, the taste of improvisation is present scene by scene.