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Someone owed somebody a favor when they shot this, and when they hired these actors! Was it shot on an iPhone? The choppy scenes, 5 second delay between saying a line, you can almost see them counting in their heads before telling themselves to lean in for a kiss. These "actors" move like they know they are on camera and are suppose to act like it doesn't exist, but they do! I felt like I was watching SNL with a guest host looking off screen to read the cue cards! Just atrocious!

Horrible acting, story is all over the place. Poor filming and editing. Dreadful and Painful to watch. I had to turn it off after 20 minutes. That's 20 minutes I'll never get back...

While this is I'm sure billed as a family friendly romance, it has bad acting, writing, directing, "soundtrack" (songs), costumes, and hair/makeup. Perhaps its geared for a much younger tween/teen audience, I highly doubt it. The dialogue is stilted, the makeup is caked on, there are at least 4 cold-shoulder looks on one woman, I'm surprised the last scene didn't have one as well. And the wardrobe malfunctions are here too! And this is the first movie I've scene where an Indian actor plays an NHL agent. The houses are echo-y, in fact the best scenes are the skating ones... hairstyles are under hats, sometimes its a blizzard so no one can see, and the voice overs! Oh my. I'd say have plenty of wine or beers when watching this one. And there's plenty of real life drama associated with this film, but google for a bit more on that. All I can say is that this was free. I don't necessarily wish my time back, but now am planning on writing my own local (not-really a) Hallmark movie too!

I tried several times to write this review but it's really just that bad. The "acting" often consists of a person flatly reading their line then making an appropriate facial expression to show emotion. The audio is echoing and the lighting is uneven both obviously due to low production skills and not a broadcast problem. The makeup and hair look like they were done by a 14 year old girl who was probably the little sister of the 16 year old they hired as a director. I suspect the director only got the job because his high school production of Midsummer Night's Dream wasn't horrible.

This isn't even fun bad, it's uncomfortably, embarrassingly, and in some cases, rudely bad. If you feel the need to watch just to see this train wreck you'll see all you need to in the first 15 minutes.

Who on earth decided to cast that main actress girl? She totally doesnt fit romance movies, she looks like she smokes too much. Bad acting, terrible soundtrack.