I won't pile on with all of the haters who have disparaged the ending. I will just say that I agree that this film should have ended in a very different way and this was a missed opportunity to let people know it is ok to move on (especially since Hallmark seems to be insisting on traveling down this very morose road where parents and spouses are dying left and right...I disagree with this change on Hallmark as the only reason I watch Hallmark is to escape reality aka for the fantasy.). I do want to say that if you see a prisoner of war who has been held captive for three years...they do not look like they just went to work. No attempt was made to make the prisoner look like a survivor. So, I am very disappointed in the lack of commitment to the ending that they chose.
The film is about a single mom, Danielle, whose husband went missing three years ago on a U. S. Marine mission outside of Yemen. She has been dating a friend of her husband's, Pierce, for the last nine months and he is most women's fantasy loving her and her daughter Audrey. Even more important Audrey loves Pierce...including asking him to attend her father daughter dance. (Which where in the military do they have a father daughter dance when so many men/dads are deployed? That seems cruel.) Audrey begins asking for stories of her father for bedtime instead of a book and as her mom starts to tell stories odd coincidences keep happening.
This story was horribly predictable and missed an opportunity to be about healing and moving on in a healthy way. I really wanted Steve Lund to get the girl, his character deserved it and it would have made for a more interesting film. Not a film I can recommend to those fellow romantics out there...I think they should give this a pass.
Also, what marine promises to be home every Christmas? They have no control of their orders!
The film is about a single mom, Danielle, whose husband went missing three years ago on a U. S. Marine mission outside of Yemen. She has been dating a friend of her husband's, Pierce, for the last nine months and he is most women's fantasy loving her and her daughter Audrey. Even more important Audrey loves Pierce...including asking him to attend her father daughter dance. (Which where in the military do they have a father daughter dance when so many men/dads are deployed? That seems cruel.) Audrey begins asking for stories of her father for bedtime instead of a book and as her mom starts to tell stories odd coincidences keep happening.
This story was horribly predictable and missed an opportunity to be about healing and moving on in a healthy way. I really wanted Steve Lund to get the girl, his character deserved it and it would have made for a more interesting film. Not a film I can recommend to those fellow romantics out there...I think they should give this a pass.
Also, what marine promises to be home every Christmas? They have no control of their orders!