Megan Park has that pretty "girl next door" quality and was perfectly cast as the alluring "commoner" Susanna. She's also a talented actor (and, since this came out, she's becoming a talented director).
Johnathan Keltz is somewhat diminutive but does a nice job playing the Prince of Cambria. And there's a sweet chemistry between the leads.
Kayla Wallace is adorable as Susanna's sister Avery (she finally got an overdue lead Hallmark role 4 years later in Feeling Butterflies).
Though set in Georgia (there's an opening shot of the lighthouse on Tybee Island), the movie was actually, as is usually the case with Hallmark movies, filmed in Canada. As a result, nothing looks like Georgia. And, as someone who has spent a lot of time in Georgia, I heard no one in the movie who sounded anything like someone from Georgia.
I had other issues with the movie. When the dad ends up in the hospital with heart problems, the family panics because they desperately need an additional worker at the store during the busy spring season. The prince volunteers, but soon he and Susanna are spending all their time working at Mrs. Waller's estate and not at the store. Why didn't Susanna arrange to start working there after covering for her father? Who's covering the store while Susanna and Nathaniel work at Mrs. Waller's and go bike riding?
Then there's the scene where Susanna runs up in her gardening clothes to give the Prince a hug in front of a bevy of reporters. No one's that clueless.
And I dislike having the conflict in these movies be based almost exclusively on disapproving royal parents. What about the sacrifice that the "commoner" must make to fit in and move thousands of miles away from their home, friends and family? And the inevitable abandonment of their career to make it work?
And this line needs to be added to Hallmark trope drinking games (along with the moment one of the leads misunderstands something they see or hear): "You've never looked at anyone the way you look at..."
Still, there are some sweet moments, good chemistry, and regular Hallmark viewers will generally enjoy this movie.
Johnathan Keltz is somewhat diminutive but does a nice job playing the Prince of Cambria. And there's a sweet chemistry between the leads.
Kayla Wallace is adorable as Susanna's sister Avery (she finally got an overdue lead Hallmark role 4 years later in Feeling Butterflies).
Though set in Georgia (there's an opening shot of the lighthouse on Tybee Island), the movie was actually, as is usually the case with Hallmark movies, filmed in Canada. As a result, nothing looks like Georgia. And, as someone who has spent a lot of time in Georgia, I heard no one in the movie who sounded anything like someone from Georgia.
I had other issues with the movie. When the dad ends up in the hospital with heart problems, the family panics because they desperately need an additional worker at the store during the busy spring season. The prince volunteers, but soon he and Susanna are spending all their time working at Mrs. Waller's estate and not at the store. Why didn't Susanna arrange to start working there after covering for her father? Who's covering the store while Susanna and Nathaniel work at Mrs. Waller's and go bike riding?
Then there's the scene where Susanna runs up in her gardening clothes to give the Prince a hug in front of a bevy of reporters. No one's that clueless.
And I dislike having the conflict in these movies be based almost exclusively on disapproving royal parents. What about the sacrifice that the "commoner" must make to fit in and move thousands of miles away from their home, friends and family? And the inevitable abandonment of their career to make it work?
And this line needs to be added to Hallmark trope drinking games (along with the moment one of the leads misunderstands something they see or hear): "You've never looked at anyone the way you look at..."
Still, there are some sweet moments, good chemistry, and regular Hallmark viewers will generally enjoy this movie.