We've seen this movie before. A lot.
A man or a woman has come to terms with being a homosexual and has found a partner. He/she has hidden this lifestyle from conservative family for years...then finally decides to come out. Family tries to be OK with it, struggles, freaks out, and there's a big argument where the homosexual person breaks away from the family or is disowned. A straight person in the family has been living a lie of some sort, usually about their own marriage. Family comes around and supports homosexual person while welcoming partner to the family. Happily ever after. Roll credits.
Forgetting all of the MUCH better movies on this topic for a moment (many of them made decades ago), did Katherine Heigl not even watch the episode of "Grey's Anatomy" when one of the doctors came out to her conservative father and he freaked out? Because that's more or less the plot of this movie.
There are no surprises. No plot twists. Although this is billed as a romantic comedy, there is no comedy at all. I never laughed once.
The side plot about Jenny's sister (who, let's face it, looks more believable as a lesbian than Katherine Heigl or Alexis Bledel) and her unhappy straight marriage was a good opportunity for the movie to do something different than all of its predecessors...but it's a missed opportunity because A) they didn't spend enough time on it to fully explore it B) it's based on a really dumb metaphor in an attempt to appear "artsy" and C) Grace Gummer didn't sell it very well.
Then again, it may not be her fault -- the screenplay is so awful and cliché that I don't know if anyone could have sold it well.
This is a Hallmark/Lifetime movie that just happened to have some bigger names in it so it. You can find it on Netflix (as my fiancée did, unfortunately), but it's not even worth your time.
A man or a woman has come to terms with being a homosexual and has found a partner. He/she has hidden this lifestyle from conservative family for years...then finally decides to come out. Family tries to be OK with it, struggles, freaks out, and there's a big argument where the homosexual person breaks away from the family or is disowned. A straight person in the family has been living a lie of some sort, usually about their own marriage. Family comes around and supports homosexual person while welcoming partner to the family. Happily ever after. Roll credits.
Forgetting all of the MUCH better movies on this topic for a moment (many of them made decades ago), did Katherine Heigl not even watch the episode of "Grey's Anatomy" when one of the doctors came out to her conservative father and he freaked out? Because that's more or less the plot of this movie.
There are no surprises. No plot twists. Although this is billed as a romantic comedy, there is no comedy at all. I never laughed once.
The side plot about Jenny's sister (who, let's face it, looks more believable as a lesbian than Katherine Heigl or Alexis Bledel) and her unhappy straight marriage was a good opportunity for the movie to do something different than all of its predecessors...but it's a missed opportunity because A) they didn't spend enough time on it to fully explore it B) it's based on a really dumb metaphor in an attempt to appear "artsy" and C) Grace Gummer didn't sell it very well.
Then again, it may not be her fault -- the screenplay is so awful and cliché that I don't know if anyone could have sold it well.
This is a Hallmark/Lifetime movie that just happened to have some bigger names in it so it. You can find it on Netflix (as my fiancée did, unfortunately), but it's not even worth your time.