The Town That Came A-Courtin'

This was an easy movie to watch while multi-tasking. I don't usually watch these Hallmark Channel type movies, but made an exception for this one because it was set in fictional Bliss, Mississippi, my home state. So I am pretty critical about the fake Southern accents. Do movie and TV people realize that no Southerner of my generation or younger drops their r's anymore? They apparently listen to audio of Eudora Welty or Shelby Foote and think that's how we still speak here. Unfortunately, we don't. The town, especially the B&B, featured in the movie was beautiful, but there are no towns or buildings in Mississippi that even remotely look like them. As I suspected, the credits revealed the movie was filmed in Canada. Could they not even take a half-hour to go online and look at a few photos of Southern small towns?

I realize that many of the actors are from northern states and Canada, but apparently none of them are proficient in accents. At least, not Southern accents. But, I decided to try watching anyway.

Cute concept, but an abject failure when it came to story lines and characters. There are too many flaws to recommend this movie to anyone.

It's so bad that it's actually funny.

Grownups behaving like kids.

The kids are way more mature than most of the people.

The plot is totally and completely unbelievable.

The acting sucks.

Lauren Holly has so much botox that her face is devoid of expression.

I love romantic movies. Truly LOVE them. But even me, a huge fan of this movies, find it boring.

I don't mind being predictable, in fact I hope they are; that's why I watch and enjoy them.

But this is way too much about everything.

Over the top, the actors work with what they have and do their best but it's not enough.

I even think there's no director!! That's how bad it is.

Although I happen to like Lauren Holly and Cameron Bancroft, the fake southern accents got to me. I am not from the south but even I can spot terrible fake accents. It was quite painful to listen to. I am not sure why it had to be in the south or alternatively, they should have used real southern actors. This is not something I would watch again. I also thought the story line was a little silly for my tastes. I loved Cameron Bancroft in Country Remedy. I thought that was a much more realistic movie. I also liked Lauren Holly in NCIS and other movies of hers. This was definitely not one of those feel good movies that touch your heart, I am sorry to say.

This movie was odd and very cheese...too much so. This is coming from a girl who loves cheesy Hallmark movies. The acting, the story line...it's all pretty rough. Clean, but rough.