Nice surprise and charming story.
Very charming story. I encourage everyone who likes christmas movies that are about reconnecting with family and friends to purchase this. This movie is written for adults and is not a young childrens story like the cover suggests though I highly recommend it for families. It is one of the most enduring christmas movies that I have seen in years and I will watch it all year long, not just at the holidays. The acting is good, the plot is entertaining and modern, and the movie is clean with no profanity or sexual content unsuitable for children/young adults.
The story centers around a widowed mother who returns to her hometown with her son to purchase her parents home to only find out it has been recently sold. In the process of trying to get it back she reconnects with her family and she rediscovers a long lost crush from her childhood with the help of a dog that suddenly appears in their life. Wonderful little gem that I will enjoy watching for years to come all...
Fun Movie
All in all this is a pretty sweet little movie. The actors are good, the story is kinda familiar but still oddly fun and the chemistry between the two leads is actually pretty good. Both play off of each other well and they're actually interesting characters who aren't instantly sappily in love like so many lame movies. Yes it's cheesy in places but it's still fun.
Also I want to acknowledge that there are a lot of comments from people annoyed that there's not as many dog scenes as the image cover suggests and to an extent they're right, but if they had actually read the story description then it would've been clear that this was a love story and not a dog story. It's kind of like seeing the DVD of Dollhouse and thinking it's about an actual kids toy dollhouse, sure the title suggests it but it helps a lot if you read the description before you buy the movie. You know how they say "Don't judge a book by it's cover"? Same applies to movies, read the plot description on the...
Not a children's movie
Not a children's movie at ALL (deceptive advertising, as mentioned frequently). Despite other reviewers saying there's nothing inappropriate in it for kids, I think the "humorous" lines "She slept with the director (to get the part)" (referring to the dog) and a reference to "making out", lots of psychobabble, and the mom acting completely unethically in order to disrupt the sale of her parent's home (not in a humorous/funny way, but in a creepy, sleazy way) etc., make this a contender for Hallmark/Lifetime movie of the minute and not at ALL recommended for the young children the packaging makes it look like it's intended for. Also, the plot line about the "puppy love" that the movie romanticizes and drives the adult characters is about two kids ages 9-10, shown holding hands, carving names on a tree, etc. Why are we interested in promoting the idea of 9-10 year old kids falling in love and acting like mini-adults? I kept wincing as my 7-year old daughter and I watched it, and finally...
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