Icing on the Cake

The acting was absolutely appalling, especially the father and the father's assistant. There was no chemistry between the leads, the leading lady was weak, as were her lines. The leading man didn't bother acting and just churned out the verbal mess of a script.

The whole thing was a waste of time and perhaps the scriptwriters may be better placed in other spheres of work, along with the actors.

I was following along with this okay movie until I noticed the bakery back room was a green screen. The lead actress and the actress who co-owns the bakery have several scenes in that room. The scenes are in a purple tint and the canisters and shelving are as fake as the chemistry of the lead actors.

This is a GAC movie. Not Hallmark.

The story was predictable but ok, nothing new or original but it still kinda works.

The real problem starts with the acting, aside from the 2 main actors everyone was absolutely unwatchable. Every interaction or line felt so badly performed, it was almost laughable.

The only good thing about the movie was the main characters, Jacob(Brad Benedict) was a stiff but relatively good enough, As for his co-star Victoria(Katrina Norman), she was a true breath of fresh air, the only shining star in the movie. Her charm just bursts out and colors the rest of an otherwise bleak movie. Please let us see more of her, and next time in a movie she can really shine through.

5.1 out of 10 stars.

Victoria Worthington makes wedding cakes and has a small bakery. She's a pushover in business and even with her ex. She mistakes wedding guest Jacob Adams III for kitchen staff. They hit it off. She doesn't know that he's one of the most eligible bachelors. He's actually a wealthy land developer who is tearing down a neighborhood which happens to include her bakery. He runs into her again and discovers that she's leading a protest against his family's company.

The leads are perfectly pretty. The chemistry is fine. Their acting is fine. It does have an interesting underlying conflict to generate heat. It's a standard romance. It's mostly fine. The production is a little lackluster. The property development company should be in a downtown high-rise to play up its cold corporate quality. The plot structure has a small problem by delaying the reveal. It needs to happen ten minutes earlier so that it could have more time to reverse it. Also it needs more food porn. It's a missed opportunity to fill up some time with some pretty baking. This is fine. More money could make the production prettier.

People commenting here watched it on GAC somewhat recently and act like it's the product of GAC... it was originally produced by Hallmark and also aired on Lifetime. It was filmed in 2019 and released in 2020 - GAC launched in late 9/2021 - so common sense dictates that GAC had nothing to do with the production. It's very common for newly launched channels to buy movies from other channels to air - sometimes even changing the name. GAC has aired several Lifetime and Hallmark movies since they launched while they build their own library of originals. Also common is to have a lower production quality early on because money is tight. (Hallmarks were WAY worse than this in the beginning and only started improving in the last 5 years).

Here's a thought - if you don't like these kind of movies, don't watch them. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. Movies like this are appreciated by millions - you think we don't know it's basically the same plot over and over? Lol. You think we can't see it's predictable? We enjoy the simplicity. We enjoy the innocence. We enjoy the tradition. If you don't, don't watch. Pretty simple.