The premise of the movie turns on a Will leaving a Bed & Breakfast to Dean Cain's character. The testator was an old lady that wrote her will by hand, then dated and signed it. The local attorney, in a stunning display of malpractice, claims that the will is invalid. This is so fundamentally wrong that it boggles the mind. Perhaps the writer should have done some research or asked a California attorney about the law, and learned that such a will is called a holographic will, and is perfectly legal in most of the States, including California. Then to add insult to injury, a supposed mediation judge working barefooted out of a small decrepit trailer is called in, and he too fails to recognize a holographic will, rules for the intestate heir (Juliana Paes), then compounds his idiocy by demanding $700 for a five minute session. I love the smell of contrivance in the morning. Juliana Paes is wonderful, as is Dean Cain, but there is no hiding from a dumb plot.
