Passion au ranch

I love hallmark movies and was especially looking forward to this one since im a big fan of Nathan parsons but not even he could save this horrible movie. the writing is just dreadful and the acting mediocre at best. the female lead didn't seem genuine to me at all and the father was just unlikable from start to finish. the best actor in the movie was david lewis who didn't even have a main role. I was bored to death watching this movie I almost feel asleep such a big disappointment I really hope hallmark does better next time.

The reason I gave a 5 star ranking was that I was laughing through out. I am amazed anyone involved thought this was a serious attempt to portray ranch life in Texas. The performing ranch chores was hysterical. Clearly there wasn't a single person every involved in this movie who has ever stepped foot on a working ranch. When Abby drove the garden tractor around the field to the delight of her father, i almost fell off my chair laughing. The yellow rose booth at the fair, the backdrop for the Texas internet broadcast seem to magically appear. I would not be surprised if anyone involved with this movie would quickly sue to get their name removed from the credits. It may well have been a career threatening decision to associate one's self with this production. Yikes!

The story in this one was pretty lame, but I loved the male leads: Nathan Parsons at the male lead was very sexy and appealing. Loved his voice. It was so great to see Robby Benson again. He has certainly aged well, and is even more attractive than he was in his youth. Both of these actors are responsible for the high rating from me. Although, sometimes Robby Benson delivered his lines like he was a trifle constipated. Sorry Robby, I saw what you were trying to do there character-wise, but.... I also liked the acting of Shannon Chan-Kent as Gina. Unfortunately, I was not impressed with the character of Abby. She struck me as needy, whiny, and not too bright. I don't think it was the actress so much as the way her character was written. As others have mentioned, the depiction of farm life was silly and ignorant. Talk about lazy. But it did provide some laughs.

Read an unusual amount or severely negative reviews of this movie. This movie is no better or worse than an other Hallmark movie with this well worn plot line. Reading the reviews before watching the movie, (I had paused it to check out some of the actors), I was tempted to delete the film, they were so extremely negative. It followed the same script all these small town/big city movies use. Either you like them or you don't. Such extreme vitriol, I think was unwarranted.

No disrespect to the actors, but this movie was terrible! The actors were unauthentic and slow, the acting was just painfully slow. It took me three days to actually watch. I never could get into it. I hated the storyline! This was not Hallmark quality!