My girlfriend has got me into Nora Roberts / Lifetime movies, and they're a lot of fun in the way that bad horror or action is.
Boiled down, this is the story of a famous violinist Caroline returning to small town Mississippi and falling for millionaire playboy, Tucker Longstreet.
Sounds pretty straightforward, but the thing that made this movie for me were the red flags on Tucker as romantic lead and how Caroline just rolls with it. I might have these a bit out of sequence, but here goes (SPOLIERS):
Red flag 1: Tucker almost causes a near fatal collision with Caroline.
Red flag 2: Caroline finds out one of Tucker Longstreet's ex-girlfriends has been murdered.
Red flag 2: Caroline finds Tucker alone on her property and he acts weird to her.
Red flag 3: Caroline finds the body of Tucker's other and most recent girlfriend on HER property.
Red flag 4: She's playing a violin solo in her house,Tucker walks in unannounced and starts clapping, she turns around startled.
The first thing he says isn't "Hello" or "Sorry for startling you". He says: "I didn't kill those women."
Red flag 5: Immediately after this, someone starts shooting at them in HER house.
Red flag 6: The next day, Tucker crashes his car into her property and destroys her gate
Red flag 7: Tucker then hires the son of the guy who tried to kill them to do... jobs around the house?
It keeps going. Accents drop in and out. Lines are delivered horribly. But Carnal Innocence is never boring. Oh yeah, the name of the small town is Innocence. Lol.
Also, if you drink every time somebody says TUCKER LONGSTREET's full name, I promise you'll have a very toasty afternoon.
Boiled down, this is the story of a famous violinist Caroline returning to small town Mississippi and falling for millionaire playboy, Tucker Longstreet.
Sounds pretty straightforward, but the thing that made this movie for me were the red flags on Tucker as romantic lead and how Caroline just rolls with it. I might have these a bit out of sequence, but here goes (SPOLIERS):
Red flag 1: Tucker almost causes a near fatal collision with Caroline.
Red flag 2: Caroline finds out one of Tucker Longstreet's ex-girlfriends has been murdered.
Red flag 2: Caroline finds Tucker alone on her property and he acts weird to her.
Red flag 3: Caroline finds the body of Tucker's other and most recent girlfriend on HER property.
Red flag 4: She's playing a violin solo in her house,Tucker walks in unannounced and starts clapping, she turns around startled.
The first thing he says isn't "Hello" or "Sorry for startling you". He says: "I didn't kill those women."
Red flag 5: Immediately after this, someone starts shooting at them in HER house.
Red flag 6: The next day, Tucker crashes his car into her property and destroys her gate
Red flag 7: Tucker then hires the son of the guy who tried to kill them to do... jobs around the house?
It keeps going. Accents drop in and out. Lines are delivered horribly. But Carnal Innocence is never boring. Oh yeah, the name of the small town is Innocence. Lol.
Also, if you drink every time somebody says TUCKER LONGSTREET's full name, I promise you'll have a very toasty afternoon.