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Speaker: Autumn Dreams Years after the annulment of their spontaneous marriage, a couple discovers a mistake in their paperwork that means they are still husband and wife.
Speaker: One out of ten stars. Horrible People My word, what horrible protagonists in this story.
Speaker: In any other hallmark, they would have been the reason for the lead moving back to their hometown.
Speaker: Both have committed relationships and cheat on their partners constantly because no one can be that naive.
Speaker: I was actually feeling sorry for the side characters. And Joe was probably the most brain-dead man ever, staying around in the farm after what she did to him.
Speaker: It's as if the writer... couldn't write bad partners, but also had a one-track mind on how the romance was going to flourish.
Speaker: So just brushed them aside.
Speaker: You are meant to go along with the leads and root for them to succeed. But all that happened was they came across as selfish, cheating, and not very likable.
Speaker: I watch Hallmark films and can overlook the flaws, but this one had such unlikable characters.
Speaker: I kinda hope they have a sequel where the partners go and have their own Hallmark movie.
Speaker: One out of ten stars. Worst movie ever. Followed by nine exclamation points.
Speaker: Wrong couple ended up together. Annie should be with Joe. he is a much better person.
Speaker: Two out of 10 stars. Meh. Watch if you have absolutely nothing else to do.
Speaker: I feel like the script writer couldn't make up her or his mind about the main characters.
Speaker: Is Ben a nice guy or is he a jerk to kiss Annie when they are engaged to other people?
Speaker: Settle your relationship with shallower-than-a-puddle fiancé before you go kissing other girls, Ben.
Speaker: Is Annie a hillbilly? The wide-eyed, wow, there are so many people, amazed look from her as they drove through New York was so stupid a comment.
Speaker: Or is she a soon-to-be Ph.D. Annie who is a brainiac?
Speaker: Also, what woman lets a complete stranger dictate, yes, dictate, to her which wedding gown is the one and which is not?
Speaker: Why make Annie appear to be so mindless and characterless? and rude.
Speaker: she is so rude She is invited to attend the rehearsal and doesn't even turn her phone to silent.
Speaker: Then she breaks Joe's heart by breaking up with him and then commandingly tells him Don't you dare go out of my life.
Speaker: Gosh.
Speaker: Seriously, why make the female lead so awful a character?
Speaker: Is Ben's fiancée a witch to railroad him on every decision about his apartment and about the wedding?
Speaker: Or is she a nice girl who helps a hillbilly choose her wedding gown? And how can she invite Annie to the rehearsal, which is for intimate family and friends, without even talking to Ben about it?
Speaker: And what chauffeur hangs out at his employer's home outside work hours? Bizarre.
Speaker: I'm not crazy about skinny kid looking Colin Egglesfield, practically non-existent shoulders,
Speaker: though he does come across as rich, charming well. Also, not so crazy about the younger version of Jill Wagner, who looks pretty hostile despite the constant smile.
Speaker: Her eyes are pretty stone cold, so the chemistry between them is not really believable.
Speaker: Also unbelievable, if you have ever planned a wedding 400 people, hundred people you will know that you have no breathing time the days leading up to the wedding, and yet the bride has time to go and work.
Speaker: and work And the groom has day from his high-powered job at that and night to hang out with his current wife, soon-to-be ex-wife.
Speaker: The amount of time these two spend together in intimate dates, how do neither of them feel like they are cheating on their current soon-to-be spouses?
Speaker: And one person wiping something off the other person's face is really done to death.
Speaker: Enough, please, with that.
Speaker: I've seen it happen in over 40 Hallmark movies, and it is now contrived and utterly unimaginative.
Speaker: Too bad. The main storyline on paper could have made for an amazing movie.
Speaker: Didn't come onto the screen that way. No heartstrings tugged until the last five minutes of the show, and then it was probably the song.
Speaker: Wait, why are they getting married again if they are already married? Well, at least she got to use the wedding gown chosen for her by his bride-to-be turned ex-bride.
Speaker: Finally, please don't litter the earth with torn paper. So incredibly uneco-friendly.
Speaker: Two out of ten stars. Lacking romance. I love Jill Wagner, but I felt that her love interest lacked luster.
Speaker: Even when they kiss, it lacked passion. I blame this on Jill's co-star, though.
Speaker: Three out of ten stars. Plain, simple.
Speaker: The typical cheesy story, but plain. Also, if it was not for about two actors in the cast, i would believe we were in a white man's world.
Speaker: Like everything was so white. The two protagonists are attractive as expected, but not a tempting performance.
Speaker: I will dare to say that you wouldn't miss much if you decide to never watch it in your life.
Speaker: Three out of ten stars. Abrupt and predictable. My mom forces me to watch some of the cheesiest movies Hallmark can come up with, and it definitely definitely made the list.
Speaker: The acting was good, which is always nice, but the script was extremely abrupt, throwing us into the story without any intros or details.
Speaker: This left us feeling wrong-footed right from the get-go, which would have been enough to get me to change movie, but my mom is an idealist and she had the remote.
Speaker: Three out of ten stars. Bland and empty. God, it was awful.
Speaker: I watched this because I was bored out of my wits and had some hope thinking it would be better than the other cheap Hallmark movies these days The main couple just didn't feel like they had a real connection, that they were truly in love.
Speaker: The guy is so stiff and moves like a robot. It just felt so cheap and cheesy.
Speaker: And it was so predictable. You could easily guess where it was all ending to And, uh, no, it just wasn't for me.
Speaker: The script sounded like something someone just threw together in five minutes.
Speaker: No personality or uniqueness to it. The god-awful music certainly didn't help, and altogether, the movie was just FORGETTABLE.
Speaker: FORGETTABLE being in all caps.
Speaker: Four out of ten stars fairly weak script and not the best acting.
Speaker: I am quite easy to please when it comes to films, etc.
Speaker: especially when I'm in the mood for romance. But this has got to be one of the weakest romantic films I've seen.
Speaker: didn't bother checking the reviews or even rating when I read the description. I was like, okay, sounds nice.
Speaker: The acting was okay for most of the time, But some moments, it was rather cringey.
Speaker: There were no sparks between literally anyone in the film. Giovanna and Ben, nothing at all.
Speaker: I know there can't be big fireworks because he's in love with Anna, but has to be at least a spark.
Speaker: He completely contradicts himself in that relationship. They don't match at all.
Speaker: They made her seem like a villain in the way they portrayed her, but there was no use for it, and she ended up being nice but bland and useless, except for the fact she was there.
Speaker: Joe and Anna. Well, let's start off how weird it is that one got with Joe and one with Giovanna.
Speaker: Both Joes? A little lack of imagination. Their relationship, I kinda understand.
Speaker: they are from a small village where everyone knows everyone, cetera, but there was something missing.
Speaker: It was realistic enough, but don't think too convincing.
Speaker: But to be fair, even Ben and Anna didn't have anything. It was so bland and just almost awkward to watch.
Speaker: The plot. Well, I like the idea of it, but the way they proceeded wasn't right.
Speaker: Flying to New York out of nowhere?
Speaker: Buying a high-end wedding dress and another designer dress? This girl is waiting for a grant because she can't afford the studies.
Speaker: Highly doubtful she would be going on like this.
Speaker: I love watching films, but Jesus, that was so not addicting.
Speaker: It's so uninteresting, it's hard to finish. I usually can't take my eyes off the screen, but I caught myself out.
Speaker: how
Speaker: Right guess, that's all i can say. It could have been worse, but I wouldn't rewatch it.
Speaker: Four out of ten stars. extremely unrealistic plot and unlikely scenarios throughout.
Speaker: Major spoilers. I don't understand how this movie is rated so highly.
Speaker: It was completely ridiculous and insults the intelligence of the audience.
Speaker: This takes place in a farming community in Iowa. an 18-year-old girl and 19-year-old guy elope and have bus tickets to New York City.
Speaker: But her father shows up right at the end of the ceremony and talks his daughter into leaving her new husband and going back home with him, and says he plans on getting their marriage annulled.
Speaker: The husband still leaves for New York by himself. Next scene 15 years later. both are marrying other people but find out the paperwork her father had filed for an annulment was never processed.
Speaker: So they need to get divorced to be able to go through with their upcoming weddings.
Speaker: Meanwhile, we find out that she thought he abandoned her and never contacted her.
Speaker: But he claims he tried to call and write but got no response.
Speaker: which she thinks her father had something to do with.
Speaker: This really makes no sense because she tells him that after he left, her father had a heart attack and was never the same.
Speaker: So she just couldn't leave the farm, which indicates that she must have had some contact with him at some point in the beginning to plan to meet him in New York.
Speaker: Why didn't she write to him to tell him why she didn't leave to join him?
Speaker: So after this huge and extremely unlikely misunderstanding...
Speaker: Her father manages to not only confiscate his letters to her, but also somehow prevents her from getting his phone calls.
Speaker: No. That would be nearly impossible in this electronic age.
Speaker: She was a college student, for goodness sakes. Did she not have a computer? No contact for 15 years.
Speaker: No email or text messages. He doesn't ever visit home or have any contact with anyone there to find out how things are.
Speaker: Doesn't find out about her father. Then we find out that she knows absolutely nothing about him either.
Speaker: even though he has become this hotshot, rich New York City executive, which any Internet search would have revealed.
Speaker: On top of all this nonsense... We've got two innocent, oblivious fiancés who are both lied to while these two reconnect.
Speaker: I could go on and on with similar examples, but won't take up any more of your time.
Speaker: They could have easily edited some sense into this movie, but I guess they believe their target audience is dense and naive enough to not require anything to be a little bit believable.
Speaker: Now, I believe that by this time you should be long asleep. But if you're not, why don't you come along with me and we'll do one more.
