Innamorarsi a New York

Aimee Teegarden always brings a lot of young fresh energy to her roles. Evan Roderick is great as her love interest, they have chemistry which doesn't always happen in Hallmark rom-coms. They should be matched up again, maybe a Spring movie set in the country. Or a winter film since Roderick is a former hockey player. The supporting cast is good, especially the bakery couple Toby and Will. Strong Canadian supporting actors.

The script isn't that good, there are some funny parts but it's clunky, it doesn't seem to fit together smoothly. As with most of the rom-coms it's filmed in BC with exterior shots of NYC. Vancouver can be made to look like almost any North American city.

Realism in this one is catastrophic. Why would they set the story in autumn while you can tell the set isn't really in that season? I mean, let's be real: in fall New York, you wouldn't go out with a light dress and a light jacket like it's warm outside. Plus, Central Park looking nothing like Central Park.

Besides, if the girl has only two months, it would make sense for it to be summertime. I guess jobs wouldn't be that easy to get in summer. But again, how unrealistic is it that you can find as many interesting jobs through a temporary work agency. And who I would have the luxury to refuse a job in this economy?

As for the relationships, I don't live in New York but I do know big cities, and characters are really too one-dimensional, starting with the coffe shop owners.

The actors are good though, so it compensates.

My expectations aren't that high for a TV movie but it's like they shoot themselves in the feet with all these.

Obviously romance writers are not expected to churn out "Citizen Kane," but couldn't they at least consult the dictionary? Worse than the fact that Roderick's character uses the term "hoi polloi" incorrectly (he uses it to refer to the rich, elite of society - but it means the rabble, the commoners), but no one corrected it. Does NO ONE on this production have a vocabulary? Or access to a dictionary. I wanted mindless entertainment, but...there are limits. Also, I agree with the reviewer that said the leads were mismatched - it bordered on a reverse "Lolita" - he didn't look old enough to drive, let alone drink, and while she's not old by any means, she looked ancient next to him. Creepy.

This Hallmark romance takes place in New York City. Piper (Aimee Teegarden) moves from the Midwest to NYC to find herself. She doesn't know what career path to follow (though viewers can discern her eventual career immediately), so she temps at various jobs. When she meets her neighbor, Austin (Evan Roderick), things are not very cordial, but we know where this is going. Austin's dream is to write children's books, but he has put that option on a back burner.

The problem with this film is the script. The dialogue is stilted and unrealistic, particularly in the early going. If you can get past that, the rest of the story is endurable. Just don't expect any great plot twists.

This was fairly watchable despite a few troublesome aspects. One of which was the mismatch in the casting. Aimee Teagarden is an attractive and relatively youthful Hallmark leading lady and Evan Roderick as her love interest was a fresh new face and did well. Unfortunately, together, the pair didn't work. Aimee is in her early 30s playing an almost 30 year-old. Evan Roderick is 6 years younger and could pass for 17. So, for me the chemistry was off.

Piper has escaped from her hometown and her over-protective parents to pursue her dreams in New York City. Unfortunately, she doesn't have any dreams other than escaping from her dead end life in Iowa or Omaha or whatever. This leads to a series of temp jobs where she hopes that her destiny will hit her "like a bolt of lightening." She is almost 30 years old. Honey, if lightening hasn't struck by now, it's not going to. She is pretty oblivious because her future career is right in front of her and is obvious to the alert viewer. Big Clue: she never goes anywhere without her sketchpad and she sketches and colors non-stop. She meets cute Austin who is an aspiring Children's book author, despite his egomaniacal world famous journalist mother who relentlessly badgers him to become a world famous journalist just like her.

After throwing amazing opportunity after amazing opportunity back in the faces of all of the nice New Yorkers so anxious to hand out cool jobs, Piper finally gets struck by lightening, figuratively. She hooks up professionally and personally with Austin, who has shockingly landed a publishing deal for a whole series of books with Piper as the illustrator. After a lot of ups and downs, Piper and Austin have their dream careers and a relationship. There were a lot of fallen leaves in this one, but no pumpkins unless you count pumpkin spice lattes. The couple's career trajectories were fantastical and should probably come with a disclaimer lest New York becomes invaded with aspiring Midwesterners hoping to be just like Piper.