Not great, but certainly good. Let me put it that way. Solid performances, particularly one stand-out performance by a supporting actress. The story was pretty good as well. Overall, a good movie for the whole family.
6 Reviews
The actors were good but the script was appalling
avocadess25 June 2016
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILERS!!!! The film begins with a man (played by Luke Perry) coming home from being out of town. At first it seems there may be an ambush or burglars. But no, it's just a homeless family (just the kids and mom). The mother never so much as apologizes for breaking and entering, and lays a guilt trip on the man for kicking them out of the house. Oh man, if you know a true bleeding heart that has zero sense of boundaries s/he just might LOVE this film.
I disliked it from this beginning. The man ends up feeling guilty enough to invite them back in.
I will not bother to retell the whole story except to say it ends pretty much as bad as it began, where near the end the man (who is an author) finally breaks through his writer's block by telling the beginning of the homeless woman's story. In this way he is able to get the advance he needs so that he doesn't lose his home (which coincidentally used to be the home of the woman with children, which is why she feels no guilt in squatting at his place with not so much as a please or thank you). The publisher loves it. The woman finds out and is angry. "That was MY story!!!" Poor sucker man once again gives in to guilt and gives the publishing rights (and I guess the advance too) to the woman since it's HER story.
Look. I'm not heartless. I believe it is a very good thing to help others, especially mothers and their small children. But this mother was soooooo UNGRATEFUL plus laying guilt trips.
P.S. A sort of subplot in the story is a hot and sexy and young professional woman who is the man's girlfriend. I'd guess she is about 30-40 years younger than him and their temperaments are very weird together. There is one part where the young gf is calling the man day after day after day, (she is also his agent), and he IGNORES her calls, while also allowing the woman (closer to his age who is widowed) to live in his house. Does she even get upset about it? Apparently NOT.
Nothing about this film is believable. But I can't blame the actors, only the script.
And WHO is giving this movie such high ratings????!!! This is something I would really like to know.
I disliked it from this beginning. The man ends up feeling guilty enough to invite them back in.
I will not bother to retell the whole story except to say it ends pretty much as bad as it began, where near the end the man (who is an author) finally breaks through his writer's block by telling the beginning of the homeless woman's story. In this way he is able to get the advance he needs so that he doesn't lose his home (which coincidentally used to be the home of the woman with children, which is why she feels no guilt in squatting at his place with not so much as a please or thank you). The publisher loves it. The woman finds out and is angry. "That was MY story!!!" Poor sucker man once again gives in to guilt and gives the publishing rights (and I guess the advance too) to the woman since it's HER story.
Look. I'm not heartless. I believe it is a very good thing to help others, especially mothers and their small children. But this mother was soooooo UNGRATEFUL plus laying guilt trips.
P.S. A sort of subplot in the story is a hot and sexy and young professional woman who is the man's girlfriend. I'd guess she is about 30-40 years younger than him and their temperaments are very weird together. There is one part where the young gf is calling the man day after day after day, (she is also his agent), and he IGNORES her calls, while also allowing the woman (closer to his age who is widowed) to live in his house. Does she even get upset about it? Apparently NOT.
Nothing about this film is believable. But I can't blame the actors, only the script.
And WHO is giving this movie such high ratings????!!! This is something I would really like to know.
this script was so bad
classic-cap22 June 2021
I think This script made this movie one of the worst movie I have seen, and i am a movie junky with over 2000 movies on my watch list.
This script was full of double standards and lines what did not make any scene in the story, and felt like they just throw them in there not really knowing what it was adding to the scene.
What makes this so much more worse, is that all the acting was good, non of it was that bad, and the whole idea of the story is great, but the script had moments where i would burst out lathing for how out of nowhere some of the lines people say at some points, like when the kid and the main guy start talking how good Hawaii is out of no where, and add nothing to the story or the characters!!!
And one last thing the mother character is one of the worst characters i have ever seen in a movie, she acts crazy out of nowhere and in the next scene she is supposedly normal and we support to be on her side, and i could say so much more things about her character what makes her so bad and annoying to watch but i don't want this to be a spoiler review.
And that is my take off the movie, take it how you like.
This script was full of double standards and lines what did not make any scene in the story, and felt like they just throw them in there not really knowing what it was adding to the scene.
What makes this so much more worse, is that all the acting was good, non of it was that bad, and the whole idea of the story is great, but the script had moments where i would burst out lathing for how out of nowhere some of the lines people say at some points, like when the kid and the main guy start talking how good Hawaii is out of no where, and add nothing to the story or the characters!!!
And one last thing the mother character is one of the worst characters i have ever seen in a movie, she acts crazy out of nowhere and in the next scene she is supposedly normal and we support to be on her side, and i could say so much more things about her character what makes her so bad and annoying to watch but i don't want this to be a spoiler review.
And that is my take off the movie, take it how you like.
Watch it
SunnyDaise1 April 2021
Pretty Heavy
athompsonblue11 January 2021
For a good family movie this one is hard to beat.
jewelch28 November 2020
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