June in January

Hallmark Movies used to to be high quality, believe it or not, presented every so often as the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Increasingly over the past 7 years, they have been churning out predictable nonsense on an assembly line in a Canadian factory. It's gotten so bad that during the months-long Christmas SEASON (a true, 3 month season) that only one or two movies are actually worth watching. This movie is one of the earlier failures. Most movies around 2013 or before were actually funny and watchable. This one is a bizarre mash of incoherent plotlines, coupled with nearly inaudible dialogue. And why is it inaudible? The SOUNDTRACK. It's like a "circus waltz" that pops up at inappropriate times and then goes away just as suddenly. It's like someone not watching the film starts and stops the music by putting records on and playing with the tonearm. The music is usually inappropriate to what's going on in the movie. And it is LOUD. Like, REALLY LOUD. It's sweeping orchestral music, so loud you can't hear the conversations and must used closed captioning, and......it's blaring while a couple is talking over a cup of coffee at the kitchen table.

In this Hallmark romance, the couple is already in love making it less about romance and more about the wedding that comes after. When the main character, June, pulls out this ridiculous homemade wedding dream book filled with the wedding that she has been planning since the age of seven, I knew I was going to have difficulty relating. I was almost back in when she explained it was a way to stay close to her now deceased mom...and have her at the wedding, but no mom would want her to sacrifice and compromise...and the monster-in-law...that was really sad.

I am glad that in the end they were finally honest with each other...I'm also glad that the couple reallY loved one another.

Not really a recommendation to my romantics...but if you love the craziness around weddings maybe you will like this film.

6.4 stars.

A man who was basically born into money and is pressured by his rich mother has decided to marry a nurse. Of course she is a good nurse, and one of the best people you will ever meet, but that doesn't change the mind of a soon to be mother-in-law who wants nothing more than to have her son marry into the aristocracy.

There are a lot of cringe moments in this film, and my primary take is that this guy does not deserve this woman. In the end he has the chance to prove that he really loves her no matter what the cost. One moment is when she loses her ring down the sink and then puts it on immediately after salvaging it. WASH IT FIRST.

Wow......

Hallmark is literally my FAVORITE channel on Comcast! So much so that my husband makes fun of me for watching all the "corny" movies. I never care what he thinks because I absolutely LOVE the Hallmark movies! I think they are sweet and poignant and I totally love them.........UNTIL!!!!!! UNTIL I came across this movie, June in January!! It's a lovely enough movie but there is a scene where the main character and her fiancé are running through the park and she is telling him how she thinks his mother doesn't like her and that she is sure she had someone better in mind for her son to marry than a nurse" and he said, "ya but you're a Nurse Practioner" and she says, "oh like your mom knows the difference?" WTF??? Like being a nurse isn't prestigious enough?!! Now we all have to be Nurse Practitioners to be recognized?? I am a Registered Nurse and I went to school for 4 years to be one. I make more money than a lot of CEO's of companies and that is coming from a "head hunter" who used to find jobs for CEO's! I find that whole scene BEYOND offensive to all my fellow Registered Nurses and I am thoroughly disgusted with Hallmark that you allowed such a scene to be put in one of your movies. How dare you! I have worked so long and hard in my career and frankly most nurses I know blow doctors away with their intellect and saviness!! Anyway....I had no idea where to direct my anger, so I chose to display it here on IMDb! Thanks to anyone who got this far in the review! I appreciate you reading my post!

Ps....I don't also mean to put down doctors because there are so many wonderful docs who deserve our admiration.

peace,

Lisa :)

When I saw that Brooke D'Orsay was the star, I was excited because I thought she was a powerful character in Royal Pains. And as the movie started out, it looked like this would be another chance to see a wonderful woman similar to Paige from Royal Pains. But the movie was boring. Most of it was about wedding planning. There was an attempt to set up a daughter-in-law/mother-in-law conflict. But that conflict was muddled. There are other details I didn't like, but expanding on them gives away too much. In some ways this was not your typical Hallmark movie. There were no competing love interests and the leads started out in love (having had a two year uninterrupted relationship). The male lead was a virtual non-entity. I don't blame D'Orsay for the shortcomings because I think she did the best she could with the script.