L'amore a portata di mouse

I enjoyed all the actors in this film, and also enjoyed the storyline, which was not as predictable as some romance movies are. There were a number of surprises, and I really enjoyed how the surprises and the choices made by the characters in the film were down-to-earth and made a lot of sense. (Unlike so many romance movies where things are such a stretch.) There were some new faces in this film (new to me), and I enjoyed them all. Lori Heuring brings something very interesting to the screen, as does Quinlan. Oh yeah, there were a few moments not very realistic -- like when Heuring fixes a waffle for the man her mom found for her on the Internet and not knowing how to cook she made the waffle totally black. I thought it was a bit of a stretch both that they served it to him anyway and that he then took a bite of it. But that was one of the only times I didn't believe what I saw. I also enjoyed the numerous relationships in the film, and the mother-daughter relationship was I thought very refreshing, especially in that it was based on more love and mutual respect than I normally see in mother-daughter relationships in film. It would make a great "date movie" too by the way.

Depressingly poor direction from Douglas Barr, better known as the veteran co-star of the terrible TV series "Designing Women", is one of the film's major faults.

It also has a most unlikeable syrupy script from Allison Burnett who repeated the crime in her next film "Autumn in New York".

It is sad to see an actress of Kathleen Quinlan's quality wasted in this drivel; Lori Heuring's acting falls way short of the mark.

The only saving grace is Brit television actor Henry Ian Cusick attempting to make a very simple role somewhat complicated. He went on to co-star in the wonderful "Lost" series.

Avoid this at all costs.

4/10

...are the basic motif to see it. sure, the romantic recipe is the same. sure, the unrealistic scenes are not very rare. but it is a film who knows tell , in nice and smart and seductive manner its story. and, after a beginning not real promising, the film has the force and spirit and gift to use well known ingredients of romance for a cute love story about feelings, choices, options, mistakes and...truth. and , without be memorable, it represents what you expect in inspired package. a film about relations. and true love. about family, desires and the step changing, in fundamental way, everything. the best detail - it seems not exactly a story. but a confession . and that transforms it in , for few scenes, a slice from your past.

I didn't enjoy most of it. Somehow it felt so cringy and the scenes that were supposed to make you laugh but didn't cause comedy is just 👎🏻. You can definetly predict lots of the events while watching and that kind a of annoying.

What I liked anout the movie though:

Now, the idea, or at least what I deduced/learned from watching this is that there is no bonderies (age) when it comes to loving someone, after all real love is loving someone for who they are and their essence (mind and soul and heart) so that was a good theme, even though *and yes I admit it* has always been sort of ageist when it comes to romantic relationship and it changed how I think about that.

So, yeah that's that.

OK ,so I saw it for the first time about 2 weeks ago,but I have watched it at least 4 times since. What a romantic movie,if only real life was this good. I guess you can see how it is going just by watching the Peter character looking at Tess ,almost from the minute they meet. The fact that she knows the poetry,the sports,everything. The younger couple was interesting as well,I have seen many people blind to what is right in front of them,so it was nice how they resolved their storyline,but,alas,the movie belongs to Peter and Tess. They just do not make enough movies that have that age group(my age group) having any kind of love life,its like life ends at 30 in Hollywood.Too bad they are missing out. I can only hope that it comes out on DVD some day,I would definitely buy it,but for right now I will be happy to play my VHS copy.