This sappy story of a woman falling for a card counter slips from bad to worse under the heavy handed writing and absurd plot shift generally only found in bad shows on Lifetime Television for romance junkies. The film starts out as a cheap copy of a Danielle Steel story about a mother unable to love again as she still mourns the loss of her husband at sea and a rebellious daughter who helps an English gambler get into her good graces, even if he lies to win her affections. Beyond the bad dialog and implausible idea that she'd fall for such a cheat, the film further degrades into an unwatchable mess.
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In the last moments of the film it resorts to adding action sequences to liven the tension. Not even a motorcycle chase and a thug beating can save this tragic loss of film stock. But it doesn't end there. The writers have seen too many soap operas so they throw in a coma-in-the-hospital scene and dialog along the lines of, "If there;s anything he'll wake up for it's you." The director even had the never to use a subtitle screen to flash "One month later" as if time had any significance to this romance. Yikes. The sacchrin in this film almost had me bolt from the theatre but to ba fair to the Harlequin Novel crowd, some women were dabbing their eyes. I can't recommend this film to anyone. Telenovellas are more fun. At least they don't take themselves so seriously.
SPOILERS
In the last moments of the film it resorts to adding action sequences to liven the tension. Not even a motorcycle chase and a thug beating can save this tragic loss of film stock. But it doesn't end there. The writers have seen too many soap operas so they throw in a coma-in-the-hospital scene and dialog along the lines of, "If there;s anything he'll wake up for it's you." The director even had the never to use a subtitle screen to flash "One month later" as if time had any significance to this romance. Yikes. The sacchrin in this film almost had me bolt from the theatre but to ba fair to the Harlequin Novel crowd, some women were dabbing their eyes. I can't recommend this film to anyone. Telenovellas are more fun. At least they don't take themselves so seriously.