Maman 2.0

The title is deceptive. This is not so much a love story as it is about a smart woman who is attempting to improve her life after the loss of her husband by working as an unpaid intern for a startup and her interactions much younger people. It's great to see Rachael Leigh Cook again and good to know that she is going do another HallmarK movie. If it is the quality of this one I'll really be looking forward to it. It seems as if the Network is putting out higher quality productions now that the major networks no longer have this kind of picture. They are doing stories for every season and not just romance movies. The mysteries are also well done and a lot of fun.

Rachel Leigh Cook is cute here as an older back to school mom doing an internship at a hip company. The CEO takes to her. It's a refreshing change from the usual Hallmark movie.

The tech background gives this movie a different feel respect to what we're used to see in Hallmark productions. The plot is original and there seems to be more going on than in most movies of the genre, I just wish they had taken the extra mile and put a little more effort in polishing the details: the writers seem to believe that the audience is going to be completely illiterate in terms of technology and basic finances. Her app idea makes no sense whatsoever and we're even shown a bunch of code written in all caps that consists entirely on dummy instructions (although to be fair, I don't think a lot of people are going to pause the video and read it). Anyway, those things didn't keep me from enjoying it since the overall story is still well written and quite unpredictable. Just be aware that is not a romance story but one of self superation, not in a drama style but the light and funny rom-com style.

This movie has only one problem: one of the romantic contenders is an idiot. There's nothing wrong in a character being an idiot, the problem is that in this case the character is supposed to be a charismatic and successful professional but the actor plays a complete sit-com buffoon, which creates a dissonance between what we're told and what we see that keeps us from fully believing and feeling invested in the story.

Overall, I still recommend it and if you're a fan of Hallmark this is definitely one you should watch.

Loved it. Great cast great acting. James Welch Henderson Arkansas. 3/22/2021

Maya Sulliway (Rachael Leigh Cook) is 35, widower, and mom. She is back in school to study accounting. Her professor sends her to be an intern at a high-tech company despite her lack of tech savvy. She is assigned to the CFO Colin Fitzgerald (Lucas Bryant). CEO Will Martin (Travis Milne) is taken with her. Colin and Will have been together since creating their app Talker but Colin is frustrated that Will is lackadaisical in producing version 2.0.

This is cute. Cook is cute. The guys are cute. It's all cute and not that real. It's real like various cute romances do banking industry, or fashion business, or any number of businesses. The rom-com is cute until it tries to do the business. The personal relationships are the important aspects and I would have preferred staying out of the business. I'd rather have Will cheat on Maya with a woman. When Josh stole Maya's idea, I feared that the movie would become about that but I really like how it was handled. This Hallmark movie needs to know its strength and developing an app is not one of them.