Starting Up Love

You would think she would have known someone else had paid for her college tuition when she didn't get the bill in the first place.

I admitt, I like it. I like it for Charlene Tilton ( indeed , Dallas nostalgia has not small contribution, but in this case, she offers a real pleasant job as aunt Marjorie ). I like it for the clash between two very different worlds, a serious young career lady and her extendet and some eccentric family, for house, humor,Anna Hutchison and Rocky Myars, for the misterioes around uncle Walrus and for location.

For not be all perfect, the problem is the forced, fake end. But this is the problem of each Hallmark romance, with the difference than Max by Cody Longo is real a charming option for poor Jillian and the decision about mountain cabin is too...idealistic. But the final dialogue between Jillian and Marjorie is so, so beautiful than it fix a lot.

I almost gave up on this movie as the lead characters aren't very nice at the start however it becomes more uplifting later. I probably will watch it again, but it's not as good as the similar movie Winter in Vail.

A high powered venture capitalist up for partner in her firm inherits a "cabin" in the wilderness with a handsome caretaker and handyman. She wants to sell it, he wants to keep it in the family as a B & B. Yeah, I know , it sounds like tens of other TV romance plots. But this one actually turned out to be half-way decent thanks to the good acting of Anna Hutchison as Jillian and her reluctant rapport with her co-owner and sometime nemesis. Mysterious Uncle Warthog? Walrus? Wallbanger? And Charlene Tilton as Aunt Marge (who amusingly turns out to have more on the ball than meets the eye) add some interest.

There are some cute situations in the script, which hangs on our heroine deciding to create a start up out of her inheritance to prove to the partners that she is worthy of promotion. As a sidelight, if I had been as successful and qualified to be partner as she was, I would have been out the door to the competition in a second instead of hanging around trying to prove myself to those pompous ingrates. Anyway this keeps her in the wilderness long enough for more conflict, drama, and romance to ensue.

In addition to Hutchison the other highlight in this otherwise fairly stick-to-the-playbook movie, is the performance of Erica Hernandez as Samantha, Jillian's administrative assistant. I was blown away at how she took a nothing-burger part and made it one of the highlights of the show. What an illustration of how good acting can turn a small insignificant part into a keynote.

Good movie for the season, without a Christmas theme. Typical story for this sort of movie. Acting is adequate, without any standouts and the movie moves along at a good pace. Nice, overall, feel good movie for the genre.