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This movie is in the spirit of other famous love-by-mail movies, The Shop Around The Corner (1940) and You've Got Mail (1998). This movie stands on its own, not a remake or reimagining. The lead actors are very good with convincing chemistry.

The deli food looks delicious. The street scenes are good to show the architectural locale. The secondary characters are good at filling in the surrounding story. I'm a little surprised that Lisa Loeb got such a high billing in my brief cable channel info description, but she does have a short appearance to sing a good song.

The plot and dialog go along smoothly (praise to the scriptwriters and the director) and this is one of the most enjoyable Hallmark movies this season. I'll probably rewatch this with a friend sometime.

Solid script writing and beautiful location photography would usually get this a seven, but with the extra interest in the chocolate making and also strong romantic themes I have to rate this an 8.

The plot and acting were generally good, but I never saw a good reason for the woman to be that attracted to the pilot. At the end, I was thinking that they would break up soon or if it got to marriage then it would end in divorce.