Accidental Engagement

The studio producing this film was MarVista not Hallmark. It's on the poster of the movie with the two actors. Hallmark has its share of weak movies but let's not blame it for the movies it doesn't make.

The story was fine. Actors fine. Too bad all the females looked like they were being strangled by giant necklaces. Worst costuming I've ever seen for one of these made for TV romances. The huge clunky home party jewelry paired with ill fitting tacky clothes was massively distracting. Young women in their early 20s do not dress like 45 year divorcees on a cruise. I don't care about high fashion or trendy clothing at all so for me to notice how incredibly bad it was is saying something. It would have looked better if the costumer got everything at Target.

It's a cute, predictable movie about a down on her luck aspiring actress pretending that a Hollywood star actor is her boyfriend to impress her friends from high school at her best friend's wedding. The Hollywood star finds out about it and goes along with the lie since he has to cover up for a simplistic problem he's in and you already knows how the movie ends. The two leads are pretty good actors in a very simplistic plot with no stakes and manufactured drama resolved within minutes of occurring. There is no real conflict in this movie. However, the cast was good and they did the best with the small budget they were given. This movie is very generic but if you want to waste an hour and a half on a movie, it's a good movie to simply watch to waste the time.

I think people are expecting too much from movies these days. We're all too spoiled with these multimillion-dollar films. This was clearly an ultra low budget movie. They didn't have a big production and they also didn't have a very interesting plotline. The movie was super poorly written and horribly directed. It was exactly what you would expect from your average film school grad student which is exactly what a movie with a low budget can afford. want great acting and awesome cinematography? then don't watch cheap hallmark tv movies! duh. And yes, as everyone has already said it - the acting was just stupid. But when you have such basic production, terrible script, and boring storyline even the big hollywood stars won't be able to do much with it. i watched this just because i am a filmmaker and i was curious to see some low budget movies and i have to say - i feel like they did what they could with what they had.

I never expect too much from these made for TV movies. At best they're like internet fan fiction so I knew what to expect. The male lead is pretty good, the female lead isn't. Clarissa's parents are really cute but the rest of the supporting cast (with one or two exceptions) look like they were randomly selected off the street. If you're looking for the TV equivalent of 'Kalms' this is it.

It's bland, sweet fayre and won't win any awards but then it doesn't claim to either. Incidentally, the soundtrack is bloody awful, truly bad and spoils the decent moments of the film. One for a rainy afternoon with a big box of chocolates.