Simply A Masterpiece

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The pairing of Jesse and Autumn is one of the reasons this movie is engaging, delightful, and entertaining. And, Jesse's singing doesn't hurt, although after hearing the 2 seconds Autumn harmonizes with him makes me wish they had performed an entire song together. She has a lovely voice. Good job, Hallmark!

Although this is a 2015 Hallmark TV movie, it just recently came into my local library in the DVD format.The film is as schmaltzy and predictable as can be, and makes no apologies for it. So if you want to get away for a while from the violence and explicitness of so many of today's movies, then the escape into this feel-good sugary sweet fantasy may be just what the doctor ordered.

Autumn Reeser and Jesse Metcalfe are AMAZING, and have great on-screen chemistry! {The story, I found out is actually based on a book} First just realize, that if you live in the south, you'll know their "accents" are portrayed horribly..BUT~ once you get past that, everything else is amazing!!! In a nutshell: story begins with 2 small town kids, neighbors/best friends Bradley(JM) loses his parents so he and his friend (AR) have their own make believe wedding in the family barn, so he can have some sort of family. (Fast fwd. 15yrs)He goes on to become a successful country recording artist, and she stays on at her family's farm, where she now runs a horse sanctuary. Bradley (JM), meanwhile is about to get married to another high profile artist, but he decides to go back 'home' to clean up the family home which he emotionally ran away from, and runs into his old bestie, (AR) and before long, sparks ignite, and then......

Nostalgia and you can't run away from home are both the appropriate themes for this Hallmark film.When a successful Grammy winning guitarist plans to win his Oscar winning wife, he goes back to Texas to see his childhood home, where unspeakable tragedy took place that took the lives of his parents in a fiery car crash.Even though he had tried to put the town out of his mind, nostalgia wins out and while back in town, he meets the girl he loved so dearly years before, before tragedy struck.This simple tale is well-done. You know how it's going to end, but you just adore it for its simplistic ways of a man coming to himself and realizing what true love really is.