Love Locks

Beautiful photography and on location filming in Paris make this Hallmark romance above average and quite charming. A divorced mother played by a still attractive Rebecca Romijn and her daughter - refreshingly not a brat, go to Paris. There they find romance. Jerry O'Connell is her ex boyfriend who owns a pretty hotel there. The theme is the love locks people put on bridges.

The cast is good and surprisingly a real life husband and wife can act in a romance without being irritating. The only fault is Bruce Davison who isn't a convincing French artist.

There are some Hallmark movies that are too perky and cute or the cast is a bit second rate. This isn't one of them. Worth a watch.

This second chance romance between Jack and Lindsey reunites real life couple Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn. Lindsey and Jack were college lovers who parted in Paris to meet at the Empire State Building like the classic films Love Affair and An Affair to remember.

Fast forward 20 years and Lindsey is a divorcé with a college age daughter of her own and is off to Paris where she is being courted by a publishing big wig who wants to buy her magazine.

While running around Paris with her daughter, Lindsey runs into Jack at a bar in which he owns the establishment.

Rebecca is gorgeous and Jerry is his usual funny and charming self...it works in these sweet little Parisian romance.

The daughter character is named Alexa. When I watch this movie, romaine lettuce is delivered to my house the next day. Weird!

I appreciate that parts were actually filmed in Paris! Jocelyn Hudon definitely seemed older than her character was supposed to be (which is pretty common in reality of the movie business but not always so obviously noticeable).

My wife and I watched this movie at home on DVD from our public library. It is a thoroughly enjoyable romantic movie, in fact with three different romances, young, middle age, and old folks.

It is a Hallmark movie, no drugs, no sex, no bad language, just wholesome characters looking for meaningful relationships.

I became a Rebecca Romijn fan when I saw the original X-Men (2000) movie, she was Mystique, the character in the blue body paint. Here she is Lindsey Wilson, formerly a budding artist trained in Paris but now 20 years later owner of a successful art magazine.

Of course Jerry O'Connell has been a favorite since his days as one of the young boys in "Stand By Me". Here he is Jack Burrow, an American who stayed in Paris and now is owner and operator of a hotel.

As the movie begins we see Lindsey and Jack 20 years earlier, young lovers in Paris, and there is an incident on the bridge where lovers place their locks, and that is the reference in the title "Love Locks." Then 20 years later Lindsey has an occasion to return to Paris, her teen daughter is starting art school, and the old friend arranges that they stay at Jack's hotel.

So that is where the movie starts going, to see if Lindsey and Jack can see that their lives would be better with each other. Meanwhile Lindsey's daughter falls for a young Frenchman who is studying mathematics, and Lindsey's old art teacher falls for a woman who spends lots of time at Jack's hotel.

The several stories meld together well and all reach satisfying conclusions in just over 90 minutes. And of course beautiful Paris. We enjoyed this movie very much.