Over the Moon in Love

My wife and I enjoy Hallmark movies for light entertainment, because they are made for TV they each are about 82 or 83 minutes long and feature attractive actors in feel-good stories.

Here old friends went their separate ways 12 years earlier. He to pursue his singing and songwriting career, she to form a matchmaking business that has a 100% success rate. She has some sort of unexplained mystical way of telling when two people are perfect for each other.

After 12 years he returns and looks her up because she was the only one he ever loved but has a hard time telling her that, afraid to ruin the friendship.

Everyone! It's a Hallmark movie, we all know how it will turn out, the fun is seeing how it gets there.

On DVD from our public library.

I have recently discovered that Hallmark movies provide a pleasant escape for me. I have gotten over being critical of the predictability and slow pace and have learned to enjoy some of the performances and just take it easy. No tension. This movie, however, just flat out made me mad. The female lead was so annoying in every way. I'm sure I've seen her before but this time, the combination of the stupidity of her character and her voice just put me over. Signed up specifically to give this review and I hate to be negative.

I just saw this movie again because nothing else on. I forgot just how stupid it is and was surprised to see I already reviewed it. Why do they keep putting on the awful ones?

Brooklyn Moore (Jessica Lowndes) has always had the knack of making the perfect match. Devin Knight (Wes Brown) is her awkward school friend. It's twelves years later. She has a matchmaking business called "Over the Moon in Love" in San Francisco, but she has never made a match for herself. Devin re-enters her life after losing touch. Stephanie Carlton holds the potential for a big magazine cover but she wants to get set up by Brooklyn. She's taken with Devin and demands to be set up with him.

Oh hey! Jessica Lowndes actually wrote this herself. I won't be too mean. This is fine. Hallmark does not set a high bar. It doesn't inspire me to follow her writing career. She does need to learn to write a meet-cute for her rom-com leads. They could meet in high school with his dental headgear getting caught in her hair. He just needs to be a big nerd whom she never sees coming. Maybe he gets picked on and she comes to his rescue. I do like the Cyrano de Bergerac aspect but the final pairing is never in doubt. Non of this is in doubt. It's a very safe Hallmark flick.

Mainly, I really like the two leads, Jessica Lowndes and Wes Brown. What bothered me was the part played by Miranda Frigon. She looks too old for him and it kept bothering me. It's a silly story anyway! But Lowndes and Brown made it worth watching.

A matchmaker meets up with an old high school friend. You know what is going to happen from then just how is the question. She has to set him up with a client but of course she is the true love. Meanwhile she does a Cyrano thing. Unintentionally funny how they get them to play their younger selves in the beginning. Jessica Lowndes is pretty and she makes a nice couple with Wes Brown. 2 Hallmark regulars. A well matched pair of leads makes a difference. Plus they get to showcase some singing talent. At least the story isn't annoying.