Fourth Down and Love

Wow a movie without saving the farm, store, town....or someone caught in a blizzard, it's a football storyline mixed with some romance. The story revolves around a divorced mom, Erin (Pascale Hutton) and a professional football player Mike (Ryan Paevey)who were once college sweethearts. They reconnect when the player gets injured and while he recovers he agrees to coach an all girls flag football team. Erin's daughter, Kiera, (Sophia Powers) is one of the players on the team. Old feelings reignite as they work through the reasons they broke up and renew the love they once had for each other.

Ryan Paevey is my favorite Hallmark male actor, and it was so good to see him return to acting after he took a hiatus. Ryan had great chemistry with Pascale Hutton and you could really tell that their feelings for one another were growing. The other characters were also well cast.

This is one of the better Hallmark movies, great script, great cast, and something a little bit different than "the usual" More Ryan and Pascale please.

This is the third time I've watched this movie, trying to figure out what's missing. I always look forward to seeing Ryan's movies, & I'm normally glued to the tube. Not this time. I even dozed off a few times when I first watched it. I love the main actors, just not together in this story. I don't believe they had the chemistry it takes to make it romantic. Maybe, it's because I'm so convinced of Pascale's role with Kavin in the series, When Calls the Heart. Sorry, Ryan! I hope in the future, they will match you up with the perfect actress in a true heart-throbbing romance. I did hear in one of his interviews that he'd like to act with Emilie Ullerup...hint hint.

Hallmark is making too many movies where the lead couple already knows each other from their romantic past. I don't find it compelling. I would like to see two people meet and learn about each other during the movie. It's a shame that all of that discovery process happened years ago so we don't see any of it. All we are left to do is wonder why they gave up on each other years ago, when their resentment will subside, and why they think the outcome will be different this time around.

The rest of the movie is fine -- typical Hallmark stuff really, which is probably what most viewers of this movie want. The actors were pretty good, and the football content was actually very good. I just think the movie would have been nicer if the leads were as new to each other as they are to us.

Another shortened "Hallmark version" of a real movie. Been aware that Ryan had not had a new movie in almost a year. Glad to see him and Pascal. But. This is a poorly developed story, highlighting a good cast-missing a fully developed script. With the writer's strike, perhaps the best writing/rewrite was not available.

This story is more a paragraph than a good short story. Too, too bad. They had the bones, but no flesh of fully developed character background or story.

It is rather up to the audience to intuit the missing story gaps and fill them off-camera.

Gave the actors the score of 8 for doing as well as they could with the ghost of a script they had to work with. Just another disappointing, shortened version of what the story/movie could have been. Too much of this seen amidst the release of very few notable movies this year.

This was a cute romance movie. I like both the leads and they usually appear in the better scripts. What I didn't like is this notion that an all girls team would beat the boys team in football. I realize this is a fantasy romance movie, so the other parts can be fantasy too but it's not right to give our girls unreasonable expectations. Men are more athletic than women because of genetics and I'm not talking just about hormones. Girls can be better than boys at certain things, but football isn't one of them. Stop the nonsense you're selling our kid's, it doesn't help to set unreasonable expectations. Back to the movie (sorry had to fill up word count), anything with Ryan Pavey is worth watching, even if it's not his best. And Pasquale Hutton has 'it'. Maybe chemistry between them was a wee bit off but it's very watchable.