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Web designer Kira of Chicago inherits a wildlife reserve in South Africa. There she meets head ranger Tom. Will she sell it and return to her accountant boyfriend Brad or...?Web designer Kira of Chicago inherits a wildlife reserve in South Africa. There she meets head ranger Tom. Will she sell it and return to her accountant boyfriend Brad or...?Web designer Kira of Chicago inherits a wildlife reserve in South Africa. There she meets head ranger Tom. Will she sell it and return to her accountant boyfriend Brad or...?
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The on location filming in Africa is the best part of this movie. Hallmark is transporting people all over nowadays.
The story is typical save the place and fall in love thing and give up your old life. Lacey needs to vary her speech patterns a little. Sounds a bit chirpy. Didn't notice a real romance develop probably less than in other Hallmark movies.
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She said at the beginning of the movie that she visited the reserve when she was five and then again when she was fourteen. Later on in the movie she said she fed the elephant when she was there at 10 years old.
I will watch any Hallmark film with Lacey Chabert in it! It is always guaranteed to be a keeper. :) I really enjoyed the scenery which surprisingly (or not, lol) over-shadowed the storyline because it was so beautiful. The animals were so cool to see too! The storyline was cute, as I have said in my other Hallmark reviews, I prefer the storylines where two people meet for the first time versus old flames. This was an adventurous ride. It is best watched with a soft blankie (preferably with an animal print) a roaring fire (or video on your Ipad of said fire), and a lovely cup of iced lemonade! *Get it: heat because of safari but lemonade for cooling off! Enjoy :)
Beautiful location, gorgeous shots of animals and vistas, gentle romantic storyline with well casted main characters and the most wonderful singing by Cape Town youth choir as a finale. Would love to have the sountrack.
Kira Slater (Lacey Chabert) is busy making websites from a Chicago office. She goes to South Africa to the reading of his beloved uncle's will although she hadn't seen him for a long while. To the shock of everybody, he left his safari reserve to her even though she hadn't been there since childhood. Tom Anderson is the head ranger and Ally Botsman is a ranger. Lwazi is the manager. Kira immediately gets an offer from a cookie cutter resort corporation. Tom is desperate to keep Kira from selling and decides to make her fall in love with him. It doesn't help that she has a boyfriend back in Chicago and she only wants to go home.
The only cool thing is the location. The scheme is very high school. The romance is nothing special. I love Lacey but the guy is a dud. He's more background actor than leading man. There is no heat and it fails in all the rom-com tropes. I don't understand the advantage of holding back the stepsiblings relationship. This movie is best on safari. I want the animals. I want more animals. I want the actors with the animals although they don't get much interactions. It's great to see the safari although it's not the level of a modern nature film. The romance isn't much. This is location, location, location.
The only cool thing is the location. The scheme is very high school. The romance is nothing special. I love Lacey but the guy is a dud. He's more background actor than leading man. There is no heat and it fails in all the rom-com tropes. I don't understand the advantage of holding back the stepsiblings relationship. This movie is best on safari. I want the animals. I want more animals. I want the actors with the animals although they don't get much interactions. It's great to see the safari although it's not the level of a modern nature film. The romance isn't much. This is location, location, location.
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- TriviaThe film was actually shot in South Africa, a rarity for a TV film produced for The Hallmark Channel, as the overwhelming majority of them are filmed in North America, and especially Canada, regardless of where the story is set.
- GoofsKira arrives to the Ukuthula Reserve by a small bush plane and is told that is the only way to get to the reserve. Yet they are able to drive to Johannesburg several times throughout the movie, which has an International Airport.
- ConnectionsReferenced in It's Christmastown: 028 - Toto's Africa: The Movie (2018)
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- Un romance de safari
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- Belabela, South Africa(Elephant sanctuary)
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- $2,100,000 (estimated)
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