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I have seen this film occasionally in YouTube. With a big surprise it is a real nice sweet romantic TV movie. Much better than those Hallmark movies which one has seen along all these years. The casting is really a winner. The lead actress is beautiful and the lead actor is incredible handsome. The two together form the right chemistry for such type of movie. That is exactly most of the other Hallmark fail to achieve. The weak point is that the story plot is a bit too simple, if the script writer has spent more time to enrich the plot lines, it will be much better. I am surprised that no one has left an review before. Perhaps it is not a direct Hallmark production (although shown in Hallmark channel), there is not much promotion and not much people know about it. Even now in 2016 no DVD available at all.

This is a sweet little film, full of outdoor natural scenes. The actor and actress have a lot of smiles in the movie, watching it make one feeling love is in air and love is all around, and life is full of hopes. I really hope that someday a studio will appreciate this TV film and release it on DVD ..... with a reasonable price!

Hearties! aka fans of When Calls the Heart will eat this up as it stars Erin Krakow as the damsel looking for love.

Cute premise and story. Watch out for the paint!

The character Sam is impossible. Number one on the list is she is incredibly forgiving. She is kind, hard-working, positive, laid-back, basically the perfect woman, too perfect. She is played by Erin Krakow who, as Heath remarks in the movie, "the camera loves her". On the other hand, she seems to have terrible luck dating. And the beginning of this movie captures her encounter with Heath as the absolutely worst date (sort of) in history.

The story is pretty ridiculous in so many ways. I already described Sam plus her ridiculous first encounter with Heath. The pie thing is silly. I won't spoil the last half of the movie, but it is just as ridiculous. (Did the writers of this movie ever hear of a release?)

The acting isn't great. As much as I love Erin Krakow, she is basically one dimensional in this movie. Also, some of her reactions in this movie are totally unrealistic at best. The movie relies heavily on shots of her with a caring look on her face. Kaitlin Doubleday as Celeste is a total cliché. Ryan McPartlin, as Heath. isn't terrible, but not great either. And what's with torturing us with terrible Karaoke.

My star rating is way to generous, but I can't resist Erin Krakow. If you like this genre, most movies have many of these faults so it's not hard to watch.

Sam (Erin Krakow) is a hopeful romantic who keeps going on bad date after bad date in hopes of finding her knight on a white horse. Then she sees a handsome photographer called Heath Madison (Ryan McPartlin) and starts emailing him. An online relationship is started and Madison invites her over to his ranch. Upon arrival, she discovers that Heath has no idea who she is and that Heath's ten-year-old son and Heath's house keeper were the ones sending the email in a big love heist. Unable to leave due to a roadblock, will the love heist work, especially with Heath's work associate Celeste Jeffers-Johnson (Kaitlin Doubleday) in the way. Yes, it's predictable. Yes, it's utterly cliched. But it's also heartwarming and hilarious. It's one of those cliched romantic movies that you just can't help but love.

Kept me laughing the entire movie. Good story. Good actors.