Turkey Drop

Not a lot going on in this movie. The love interest story was pretty obvious from the start. You have your standard set of characters - under-confident girl, boyfriend, kooky brother, overlooked love interest, angry grandma, mandatory lesbian couple, suspicious home-wrecker, boring parents.

It's not boring, but never evokes a significant laugh - sad in a way, as I think it is supposed to be a comedy. There is a moderate pace to the story, things tick along, but I can't really recommend it unless you are out of options. This is the sort of movie that is perfect for a a long distance flight when you have seen everything else.

College freshman Lucy Jacobs (Olivia Holt) is doing the long distance dating with her high school sweetheart Jordan. She's going home for Thanksgiving and her roommate tells her about Turkey Drop. It's slang for getting dump in her exact situation. Now she's obsessed and fearful of getting dumped by Jordan. Her mother (Cheryl Hines) is changing everything and her father is worried of getting dumped himself. She also hates the family house guest Dean who could have a crush on her.

Olivia Holt is cute and I love Cheryl Hines. Outside of those two, this is a rather predictable and flat TV movie. The movie-making is straight up TV level or worst. The dad needs to be better to make that story work. He's trying too hard and not enough. Same goes for Jordan. He's just not interesting enough to dislike. Dean is slightly better but this movie desperately needs a better third actor. Cheryl Hines needs some funnier material. At least, they try to give Olivia Holt a few funny bits. I don't mind the Lucy Dean pairing but this is not a good movie.

I thought it was rather cute & funny. Typical BF/GF problems & family problems. It was a nice break from Christmas movies.

The chemistry between the LI was not really there and the kissing was bad!

Although it was a cliché (as most romcoms are) I did enjoy it as a care free, feel good type of movie.

The brother's girlfriend? How did we not get closure on what the hell that was all about? I guess he likes them older since he needs someone to mommy him *cough, cough -manchild, cough*

I was on my toes about the mother, it could have gone both ways. I'm glad it went how it did, but I'm mostly happy that our leading lady embraced the change.

P. S how is a cheerleader not fit?? Like they have extreme cardio workouts and you mean to tell me she can't run a 10k?

There is nothing redeeming about this stupid poorly acted, poorly scripted yawn of a film - I have no idea how it ever get on tv.