Une bague pour deux

I read the book in anticipation, but that was a bad move. I wanted more from the movie than was given. Without having read the book, it was painfully slow and missing action and subplot. I had to explain the missing plot to my husband to help him interested. Definitely better than a Hallmark movie but I still expected more. The actors are all right but there's no real chemistry and everything needed an extra rehearsal. The character arcs for some were not fleshed out and that really cut into the characters and flattened them. It is clean except for a couple of expletives, but I think only 2 or 3 total.

Something from Tiffany's (2022) is a movie my wife and I watched last week on Amazon Prime. The storyline follows a young man with a daughter who plans to get engaged to his girlfriend for Christmas and heads to Tiffany's to get an engagement ring. As he's leaving he bumps into a man buying earrings for his girlfriend for Christmas. The man buying earrings is hit by a car and the guy with the engagement ring rushes to his aid and calls an ambulance. Of course their gifts are swapped in the process and the ability to get the gifts back is more challenging than the guy planning to get married hopes.

This movie is directed by Daryl Wein (How it Ends) and stars Zoey Deutch (Zombieland: Double Tap), Kendrick Sampson (Insecure), Ray Nicholson (Licorice Pizza), Shay Mitchell (Pretty Little Liars) and Leah Jeffries (Beast).

The casting was perfect for this movie and everyone delivered their characters well. The father/daughter chemistry and dynamic portrayals were perfect. The storyline has a modern holiday feel to it and is well paced and unique. There were aspects that were frustrating and felt unrealistic, but you couldn't have the magic of the ending without a few cheesy moments. I did find myself saying over and over again, "you don't know this lady to be this pressed," and "just call the police already." They did go a little over the top on how "bad" the girlfriend and boyfriend were at times. The accidental proposal scene was wild. The conclusion is beautiful and very well done and the soundtrack was perfect.

Overall, this isn't perfect but it is a worthwhile addition to the holiday genre with a nice modern feel to it. I would score this a 7/10 and recommend seeing it once.

Frankly the trailer gives a bit too much away, but still ... Zoey Deutch (Lea Thompson's daughter) is Executive Producer and also stars as Rachel Meyer. She co-owns a bakery in New York City and has a boyfriend. One evening leading up to Christmas he is shopping at Tiffany's for an appropriate gift, he selects some nice but "affordable" earrings. He leaves the store with the gift in a nice blue Tiffany's bag.

At the same time a man visiting from Los Angeles, a professor and author, is picking out a nice, expensive ring for his girlfriend flying in, his plan is to propose on Christmas Eve. He and his young daughter leave the store with his gift also in a nice blue Tiffany's bag.

The first man gets hit by a cab, the second man sees it and rushes to his aid, both blue bags end up on the street surface near each other. They inadvertently get switched.

So this chance meeting and switching of bags sets all kinds of things in motion, causes lots of confusion, as the four principal characters and their friends and families work to understand what all happened and to sort it out. In the end, as nice pleasant movies always do, things work out for the best for all in the end.

My wife and I watched it at home, streaming on Amazon Prime. Nothing much novel, just pleasant entertainment.

There is a car accident in front of Tiffany. There is a mix up with two blue boxes. There are marriage proposals and non-marriage proposals. It's bad relationships and one budding sweet one. Rachel Meyer (Zoey Deutch) is a New York baker with a bad boyfriend. In Tiffany, Ethan Greene (Kendrick Sampson) is picking a ring with his daughter.

Reese Witherspoon's production company Hello Sunshine is trying to tap into the Sweet Home Alabama jackpot. This one is more a shot at Hallmark cheese than a rom-com hit. It tries to be more, but it fails at that. For me, the biggest issue is construction. I don't like the love quadrangle. A love triangle functions better. Vanessa's biggest sin for most of the movie seems to be the weather. The story needs to be rewritten into a love triangle. I would reimagine the Vanessa side by adding some tragedy. Ethan could be picking up the custom-made ring after Vanessa's tragic death. That would make the construction into a triangle. There are other issues. For example, the staging of the switch is a bit awkward. I would make the switch first before the accident. This rom-com also needs a better meet-cute. I have no suggestions, but there has to be a million better ones than this. I like Zoey Deutch and Kendrick Sampson's chemistry. They're a sweet couple. Gary is a horrible boyfriend which works well. There are elements here that could work, but the basic construction is flawed.

This movie wouldn't have been half as good with our Zoey Deutch. She's so great in rom-coms. She's so charismatic and magnetic. This movie started off iffy. The dialogue is not the best. I was definitely expecting a Hallmark channel type of film. But it picks up after the first act and I ended up really enjoying it. It's not too corny and doesn't fall into an obscene amount of cliches. It was a very tame, safe rom-com that you can definitely watch with the whole family. It's also a movie that just so happens to be set around Christmas but it's barely mentioned at all so you can watch any time of the year.