I honestly don't know how to take this movie. The premise is on the less common side. There's a wish box and Faith wishes for True Love. Then things go a little crazy. Faith starts having random encounters with guys. Many of them are the bump-into variety and several include having drinks spilled on her. Later in the movie she gets mad about all the guys "ogling" and touching her. This seems to me to be perilously close to not being PC to have that result from a "wish" which is apparently being fulfilled somehow magically. Faith certainly buys into that theory. Is that really OK to have a wish fulfilled in that way by some mysterious force, or the wish box, or by Pam Grier all dressed in red like Mrs. Clause? If you can avoid being insulted by it, it is kind of funny. I honestly don't know. I am insulted for Faith's sake and the sake of innocent women, but I also see the humor. Does that make me insensitive to see the humor, as the writers obviously intended, in having Faith "handled" that way ?
The Wish is so much a factor in the story that it is almost as if it were a character of its own.
The premise is slightly unusual, but many of the usual tropes jump in quickly. Faith has a very attentive male BFF. The audience quickly picks up on where this is going because it has been done so many times. There's a community program to save. There's a big community get together on Christmas Eve.
Meanwhile there is another sub-plot that is much more altruistic. Stella's mom gets one of the wishes to fulfill (kind of like Make a Wish) and it turns out to be a lot more complicated than it originally sounds.
Hilarie Burton does a nice job as the lead who manages to take all the attention with a combination of frustration, hope, and sometimes humor. Faith goes along with it, but at times she resists blaming her sister for talking her into it.
I rate this 7 stars mostly because I'm not really sure how I feel and 7 is my default for OK, not great, but not bad.
