I have to say it starts off really bad, the only thing we see in the first third of the movie is three women with a drinking problem. Her two friends are supposedly highly achieving professionals and one wonders how did they manage to get where they are while drinking the way they do.
(Don't worry, no spoilers) Friend nº1's date was ridiculously cringy and unrealistic, no man would ever behave like that and the whole scene could have been skipped altogether. Its only purpose was to justify her decision to join the others in their trip, but why did they need to dedicate so much time to explain why a secondary character decides to go on a trip with the protagonist? She's a secondary character, her entire existence is meant to be near the protagonist so we can know things about her through their dialogs, of course she's going with them! They had already planned the wine tasting trip to Napa Valley anyway so they didn't need to explain anything.
And her fiancé is definitely not husband material, at first I assumed he was the mandatory gay best friend.. it makes it really hard to get involved in their story and see them as a couple when he's so ridiculously feminine.
But despite those and a few other similar details, after the initial setup it evolves into the sappy romance TV movie you were expecting, with all the usual clichés and terrible acting but with a twist of a realistic and reasonable ending.
(Don't worry, no spoilers) Friend nº1's date was ridiculously cringy and unrealistic, no man would ever behave like that and the whole scene could have been skipped altogether. Its only purpose was to justify her decision to join the others in their trip, but why did they need to dedicate so much time to explain why a secondary character decides to go on a trip with the protagonist? She's a secondary character, her entire existence is meant to be near the protagonist so we can know things about her through their dialogs, of course she's going with them! They had already planned the wine tasting trip to Napa Valley anyway so they didn't need to explain anything.
And her fiancé is definitely not husband material, at first I assumed he was the mandatory gay best friend.. it makes it really hard to get involved in their story and see them as a couple when he's so ridiculously feminine.
But despite those and a few other similar details, after the initial setup it evolves into the sappy romance TV movie you were expecting, with all the usual clichés and terrible acting but with a twist of a realistic and reasonable ending.