Color Me You

Wonderful feel good movie. Directing, camera shots, acting were all excellent. I highly recommend this movie to everyone of all ages.

My wife and I found this movie on Amazon streaming, it features Waco and Baylor, where the young star is from, and Dallas, where the director is from.

Kaley Caperton, Waco native who in fact is a very accomplished songwriter and singer, plays the featured role of Kat Abernathy. It is a familiar story, parents expect her to become one thing, in this case a lawyer to join the family law firm, but drawing and painting are her real passions. Her dad understands her, but her mother doesn't.

So she goes off to study but soon adopts two identities, her real one in studying law but an assumed name for her artistic endeavors. Situations arise, a love interest included, until Kat and her parents can achieve a resolution they can all live with.

My wife and I enjoyed it as light entertainment, but the script is highly variable, it works pretty well often but in all scenes involving conflict, like when the mother confronts her daughter at the art museum, nothing rings true. Several of the actors over-act very annoyingly. It just demonstrates how difficult it is to write a really good script, and how much really good actors bring to making it seem real. The actors here are mostly inexperienced, working with a spotty script, and it shows.

I know actors and filmmakers have to start somewhere and this one isn't all bad, but compared to really well-made movies it comes up way short.

I could not watch this seriously. The acting was horrible, it was so obvious and wow this was just bad from an artist's perspective. Drawing in a park with no backboard on an easel means you magically make a subpar pastel drawing appear on watercolor paper. Total crap. I would rather watch my paintings dry.

I heard about this movie from a review in the Waco Tribune Herald, because an actress from the Waco area is in it. I was excited and decided i would give it a go because I'm from the Waco area as well. Just watch the trailer and you will see how bad the acting is going to be. It's worse than the acting in 90s soap operas and that is saying something. My biggest problem, is that this story is about a law student who becomes an "artist". Yet, you could tell that they did not have a lawyer or artist on the set of the film to advise, because everything was very generic and bland.

You can tell some money was put into this film, but I think the problem is the people who funded it, also wanted to let their friends who are not actors......act in it.

This is what happens when people with money who are not artist, pretend to be artist.

For a first feature film made by a young director with a small budget, this movie deserves a shoutout. A good family movie with a positive message and wonderful cinematography that would totally fit in the Lifetime or Hallmark channels.