Elopement

Elopement is a thriller about a a young(ish) couple with home troubles who decide to elope for a better life but things don't go to plan. Or do they?.

It's a TV Movie and therefore you shouldn't expect too much. The smallish budget does show in some pretty poor plane scenes. The plot whilst starting fairly credibly veers dramatically to the outlandish as it reaches it's climax. There are some plot issues that really do defy any creditable explanation and which spoil the film for me. This is a shame as if the writers had just reigned in the plot a little this could have been a decent film.

The acting is nothing much to shout about though not dreadful. It does feature Ian Ziering as the older brother who I immediately recognised from the hit 1990's TV series Beverley Hills 90210.

Elopement is nothing special and won't live long in the memory. It is a reasonably entertaining film at times but is let down by the overcooked plot. Maybe worth watching as a time filler.

In a nursing home, an older woman sadly looks at a handsome younger man's photograph. Eight years earlier, in Portland, Oregon, we meet poor auto-mechanic Chris Kramer (as Mark Drummond) and his pretty fiancée Pascale Hutton (as Jamie Butler). Her wealthy parents don't want Ms. Hutton to marry Mr. Kramer. They've even discovered the poor man has a relative in prison. Kramer's understanding older brother Ian Ziering (as David Drummond), a police officer, suggests putting off the wedding. Undaunted, Kramer and Hutton decide to elope. After obtaining a $200,000 "loan" from her parents, Kramer and Hutton take off in a rented two-seat airplane. The weather is dangerous and it looks like the plane might crash. Eight years later, the plot and characters unravel in predictably unbelievable heights of stupidity.

** Elopement (2010-04-19) George Erschbamer ~ Chris Kramer, Ian Ziering, Genevieve Buechner, Pascale Hutton