Courageous Love

Just awful. Writers used every trite stereotype and cliche in the book and the wooden acting of the lead made it worse. Makes Hallmark movies look like Oscar winners. For those who give this a decent rating on religious grounds, besides a couple of vague mention of God and that it's important to tell the truth, there is nothing here that in any way that encourages people in their belief. I'm sure everyone involved has a good heart but God deserves so much better! Please write a storyline worthy of watching.

The Shelby Construction Company is in chaos with the sudden death of its founder and the company is now owned by brother and sister Jared Withrow and Holly Houk. But Houk's got a career mapped out and it's up to Wtihrow to see it through management changes.

It's a tough challenge because within the company itself there are some folks sabotaging things. As a scapegoat they've picked out Christian girl Jessica Koloian. They don't reckon with her faith.

This one falls under the God works in mysterious ways situation And of course Withrow and Koloian are fated to be mated as well.

Truly I think 90% of that company would have been polishing up their resumes before all heck breaks loose.

I really think the negative reviewers hate God. Any movie with goodness in it they cannot handle. I've watched the movie three times. It has a Cinderella theme and a Rocky theme. I found the lead couple had good chemistry and the movie charming. Good wins out in the end. Of course you cynics might have a hard time with that. I have learned not to trust the commercial critics. Usually what most of them like I hate and vice versa. Without faith in God how can one believe in good triumphing over evil especially when the ultimate triumph will be in the after life. Oh well, their terrible loss. Now I am also learning not to trust the unbelieving lay critics when it comes to Christian movies. So many low rated Christian movies on IMDB I took a chance, watched them, and thoroughly enjoyed them. I admit some Christian movies are not done well. But this one is, otherwise I would not have watched it three times.

The story concept is good. Ripped from a Hallmark movie, it's an exec who pretends to be someone else, then meets the girl of his dreams. The viewer knows there will be a reckoning at some point, just like in the Hallmark movies.

Unfortunately, this film suffers greatly from poor production that chopped the film into a million pieces and made it hard to follow or understand at times.

Plot: A 30 something, whiny artist (Jared Withrow) and sister inherit the family business after their parent's sudden death. Jared and other executives of Shelby Engineering make terrible business decisions. Combine that with an employee and mobster who are sabatoging the company. Jared meets an office manager (Jessica Koloian), and they fall in love. Jessica is an idealized Christian single young woman. She rehabilitates everyone she comes into contact with. By the end of the movie, you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you leave feeling encouraged. And a surprise twist of beating the odds and coming out on top.

My wife gave the movie 4/10, but I'm a sucker for cheesy, romantic movies. My favorite part was the video with the Shelby parent's. Terrible production quality, but that's what they were going for. It was so funny, I couldn't stop laughing. The reason it lost a point (9/10 vs 10/10) was because of 2 things: 1) the movie tried to do too much. Too many side stories that really didn't weave together very well, and 2) the casting of all side characters was pretty weak. Give this one a chance! You won't be disappointed.