Road Less Traveled

I rented this for my wife. She's into the romantic genre and I liked the cover intro of the story. As for myself, I've been expecting this showing to be the usual formulaic boy meets girl, girl has trouble deciding, conflict evolves, emotions roil among parties, parties resolve situation---film credits run. Not so. This was a step above the rest. The development of the characters, the swing country music, the good songs and lyrics made this cynic into a believer, But I am not averse to enjoying country music, or the pastoral scenes of a bucolic way of life. Those were to my preferences and very appropriate for the plot. It was the portrayal of the reality within the story and the people in it. It had depth and talent that I never expected from a cast that I'm not familiar with, that went beyond the banal and trite. It was a good evening's viewing.

Not a great film at all, pretty good soundtrack though.

'Road Less Traveled' is led by singer/songwriter Lauren Alaina in her film debut. It entails her portraying Charlotte who is in need of new inspiration for her music career, visiting her hometown in order to do so whilst concurrently planning for her wedding.

It's a weak storyline, filled with cringeworthy clichés and predictable plot points. Alaina's acting isn't anything of note, same goes for her co-stars Carine Rice and Ashton DeGroot, among others. You can tell Alaina's talent lies with her music, which is by far the best part of this production.

These boy meets girl films can be a hit or miss, and the acting on this one is definitely a miss. My amateur dramatic (I think in the US its called 'stock rep') club could do better.

It's a typical romance genre movie. Hard times that work out in the end. It's more like something you'd watch on TV when you don't feel like something heavy. The story is not that bad and the acting is passable. Except the main star, Lauren Alaina, can obviously sing, but her talents don't transpose well across to acting.

Worst acting i have ever seen. Apparently they were unable to turn off the drink act.