Love Finds You in Charm

This movie is just so sweet. Clean, good message, yet with real life situations. Great story, great acting.

This is a coming of age film but in the context of an Amish Community - it speaks to knowing ones own mind while remembering that sometimes this involves a journey of discovery to find not only new experiences, but also ourselves.

A little predictable and good and evil is stereotyped at times but easy and fun to watch. If your soul need soothing this film is like a cool breeze - present our destiny, our calling as something attainable and fun to search for. Subtle themes of loving and losing but staying open to life and what it has to offer.

A little more character development would have enhanced the film's gentle message.

Does everything we see on the screen have to be glaringly and so called realistic. Maybe for some but not for me. I certainly don't mind a good dose of sweet, delightful and refreshing. Here is a young Amish girl, naive about the world outside of the confines of her community and longing to know what is on the outside. And there is a handsome young Amish fellow who loves her but is wise enough to allow her the room to make her own choices. This movie is well acted and thought provoking with a plausible story line. Okay, our Amish heroine does have plucked eyebrows and is lacking the Amish accent but can we overlook that for the sake of the message the movie is delivering? I think so. And I do love our heroine's purity--a rarity in today's world and nice to know that the innocence of her sort does exist.

A beautiful actor learning that her sequestered life may be good enough – with one straw man city slicker perhaps enough to blow up exploration into the entire world?

Terrible, sentimental film, with a portrayal of the Amish that's insulting. Jane Austen, the film's go to sage, would be chagrined.

This story is as much about a young woman finding out about herself as it is a romance. Actually, probably more so. I think it does fairly well at examining Emma's struggle and showing how she deals with it.

One of the clichés is the young woman torn between two worlds. That part reminds me a little of all the "royal" movies that are so popular. The Englisher world is by no means royal, and most of us can understand many of the drawbacks, but Emma is faced with how different that world is from the one she has known. There are some thought provoking moments such as the grass-is-greener syndrome.

If there is a stereotype, one might conclude from the movie something about all Englisher men, and it's not good. Meanwhile, Amish men are gentlemen, right?

The movie is based loosely on a book by almost the same name Love Finds You in Charm, Ohio. There are no glaring differences that I can remember. One thing I like about both the movie and the book is that neither is judgmental about the Amish. I like that Emma and Kelly can really be friends. Also, like the book, the movie brings up trusting and following God, but I wouldn't say either is preachy.

I imply that the romance is not the central aspect of the movie. So I don't consider it negative when I say that the chemistry between Trevor Donovan and Danielle C. Ryan isn't overwhelming. There's some, but the movie didn't focus enough on just the two of them to make it much more than that.

The conclusion is a little rushed. It jumps from a conflict right into the expected outcome and then moves quickly into an epilogue.

I liked this movie because I watch a (very) lot of Hallmark and UpTV rom/drams and rom/coms and this was different enough to be refreshing.