Marketing executive, Josie, returns home when she becomes the unexpected guardian of her niece and nephew. While there, she reconnects with Cooper, her high school boyfriend.Marketing executive, Josie, returns home when she becomes the unexpected guardian of her niece and nephew. While there, she reconnects with Cooper, her high school boyfriend.Marketing executive, Josie, returns home when she becomes the unexpected guardian of her niece and nephew. While there, she reconnects with Cooper, her high school boyfriend.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Storyline
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- TriviaThere is a reference to Lacey Chabert's recurring role in the Crossword Mysteries series of made for television movies when she helps another character solve a crossword clue.
- GoofsThe charm on the bracelet that Josie gives Delilah is a volleyball not a basketball.
- Quotes
Cooper Avchen: ...which reminds me, there's something I wanted to ask you.
Josie Wilder: Wait, wait, Coop.
Cooper Avchen: I know you got a lot on your plate, and I don't want, I don't want to ad to that, but, uh... Josie, will you, um...
Josie Wilder: Uh, okay. I... Cooper, I know what you're gonna say.
Cooper Avchen: You do?
Josie Wilder: Yeah. I... I know what you're feeling, and it's... it's not real. Okay, maybe it's real, but it's... it's... I've, I've only been back a short time, and, I mean, I was just talking about how completely confused and overwhelmed I am minute ago, and that hasn't changed in the last 60 seconds. It's been so nice to hang out with you. It feels good. It feels really good, but all of this talk about, you know, grand gestures, and what if I had stayed in town... It's not grounded in reality, and right now, I have to be all about reality. I'm sorry if it hurts you, but no. The answer is... the answer is no.
Cooper Avchen: That's all right. I'll just ask somebody else.
Josie Wilder: What?
Cooper Avchen: I didn't realize it would be such a big deal.
Josie Wilder: But of.. of course it's a big deal. I mean, it's a... it's a big deal.
Cooper Avchen: It's only temporary, until I get another one on my own.
Josie Wilder: I'm sorry. Is one not enough for you?
Cooper Avchen: I think it's every guy's dream to have one for family and one for the weekend fun.
Josie Wilder: How can you talk about something like this so casually?
Cooper Avchen: What do you think we're talking about?
Cooper Avchen: Marriage.
Cooper Avchen: What?
Josie Wilder: We're talking about...
Cooper Avchen: Did you think I was proposing to you?
Josie Wilder: You... Okay, no. Mr Cox, he said that you ordered an engagement ring for a grand gesture! And we're sitting here, and you pull this, this ring box out of your pocket.
Cooper Avchen: It was jamming into my leg. This is Nate's. He's proposing to Molly next week.
Josie Wilder: So what are you doing with it?
Cooper Avchen: He had me arrange the whole thing so he wouldn't get caught.
Josie Wilder: But than you brought me here, and you said you wanted to ask me something.
Cooper Avchen: I do want to ask you something. I wanted to ask you if I could use your father's van for game nights.
Josie Wilder: The van?
Cooper Avchen: Yes, just until I get enough money to get my own, and since I crashed his Chevy in high school, I thought I didn't want to ask him. I thought maybe you could ask him.
Josie Wilder: Of course you can borrow the van. You can have the van.
Cooper Avchen: Thank you.
Josie Wilder: Yeah. I'm just gonna go crawl under a rock over there.
Cooper Avchen: Don't do that.
Josie Wilder: We can never speak of this.
Cooper Avchen: No, it's okay.
Josie Wilder: Thank you so much.
Cooper Avchen: It's a common mistake.
Josie Wilder: I'll just go.
Cooper Avchen: It happens all the time. Could've been yours.
Josie Wilder: It would be great if we never spoke about this.
For me personally, the movie got off to a bad start with the Grandfather, Gregory Harrison, being what I thought was cruel to Josie. At one point, after doing many things to discourage her even more than the loss of her sister and best friend, he says "I love you" and I thought, no you don't - you just want what you want. Perhaps this was realistic, but it turned me against that character. And the overheard remarks contributed to later friction with the kids.
The burnt toast was a stupid attempt to show Josie wasn't a good cook.
Then Josie makes several very poor choices. One regarding the nephew was, to me, absolutely unbelievable. I really can't imagine any parent or guardian ever doing that. She makes a poor choice in her job which also affects the kids. She makes a choice, which I actually thought could have gone either way but flops, with her niece. Yes one of the themes of the story was making mistakes but out of love, yet for me these were poor examples.
Oddly, the movie was totally devoid of Josie having to enforce discipline which naturally results in resentment by the kids. This is where you would expect such problems in this type of situation. It was like the kids were perfect and Josie the bad girl.
The whole business with her job was unrealistic, but then Hallmark isn't known for realistic. Actually, her boss was incredibly generous to her.
There's one scene, which appeared in all the previews, of the family enjoying time together in the kitchen, but I wanted more of that.
I wouldn't call this a romance movie. Chabert and Tyler Hynes had definite chemistry. (I would think it hard for anyone not to have good chemistry with Chabert.) But the story was more about the family. Cooper's role was more to encourage Josie than to generate romance. As a result, the last scene felt like a tack on rather than flowing out of the story.
Perhaps I never got over my sour feelings about the Grandfather. The movie generated some positive feelings, but not as much as I hoped. With a new movie almost every week on Hallmark, they tend to run together. This was a different story, but I really wanted something that stood out more and brought me back in the future to watch over and over.
- Jackbv123
- May 17, 2021
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