L'amour dans le pré

A Hallmark movie is supposed to be 'feel good.' I found this one was just that. Both leads played their parts well. I don't know what others are looking for with Hallmark. There are no explosions and car chases in these movies but they are in others that maybe they should be watching. I was skeptical because the character had a kid but the boy was very believable.

Jen does not come off as a surgeon very well. Once she gets to the country, the rest of the movie is warm and entertaining.

The leads are well matched and have a good chemistry between them. Jen Lilley has a luminous quality and very pretty eyes. She smiles a bit too much as is the case with many Hallmark movies but because she is pretty it's not too annoying. She plays a surgeon and widow who takes her young son to their family pear farm which is about to be sold. She meets a too hot for a small town fruit scientist / farmer looking after the farm played by Ryan Paevey. The farm is bucolic looking and the pears look delicious.

One of the more successfully put together Hallmark romances.

Did I buy the lead character as a surgeon? No. Why was the kid always tired?

If you can put these elements aside you'll find a fun Hallmark film. The story holds up, the leads have chemistry - those are two big boxes ticked off that make or break this type of film.

It's very much built in the Hallmark formula, but there are enough lovely moments here to make this a pleasant way to spend an afternoon's viewing.

My husband and I enjoy Hallmark movies, especially during the fall and winter holiday seasons. Both of the lead actors have starred in General Hospital (Ryan Peavy still does), and I was looking forward to seeing them in this movie. The plot was very thin and the acting was very bland. There wasn't much chemistry between them. There have been other Hallmark movies with the same theme about saving the family farm, so this one needed some pizazz to make it fresh, but sadly there was none. The only thing that was different was the fruit. Jen Lilley smiled way too much for my taste. She seemed more like a love-struck teenager than an accomplished surgeon. She is very pretty and has big beautiful eyes, but after awhile it was very annoying seeing her doe-eyed smile in every scene.